Wikipedia talk:Contents/Lists

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After going to all that effort, I've realized that this should be a list of lists of topics, not lists of articles. By listing topics, we also create check-lists for possible future articles. The Anome

--Kenny sh 11:11, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC): I agree. We can make a new one yet another category list.

But then we can take List of reference tables as starting point and extend it, making more tables of topics, so that eventually all articles are in one of these tables. - Patrick 11:59 May 1, 2003 (UTC)

You might want to build on one of the Wikipedia:Category schemes or on Wikipedia:Wikipedia arranged by topic and expand some of the topical lists included in the main subject articles. This new list somehow duplicates those. BTW we recently merged Talk:List of topics lists and List of topic lists back into List of reference tables. User:Docu

I think it would be best if this list served as an entry point to the general fields of knowledge, while List of reference tables remained a quick jump to specific articles with a common theme, as the title implies. And why not use the subject categories that are used on the Main Page, since that is what our browsing visitors see first? Except for Opera, I think it divides knowledge up fairly evenly and logically.

None of the lists on this page are comprehensive and up-to-date. Most, like List of parapsychology topics are barely started, while List of mathematics topics has become so large that it is difficult to edit. Therefore, I've been adding categories (such as Cooking and Geography that include a list of subcategories on the page until someone creates a separate page for a longer list. GUllman 20:58 20 May 2003 (UTC)

Rats - I just (partially) reinvented this particular wheel at list of science topics. Martin 16:26, 3 Aug 2003 (UTC)

LOL - BTW there is also: List of academic disciplines -- User:Docu

I've been trying to make a new front page category scheme at Main Page/Temp5... but it's not easy :( Help appreciated! Martin 16:53, 3 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Maybe it's just like changing tires. Hard to say what to suggest, given that Search may or may not be available. -- User:Docu

User:Kenny sh, I have been carefully considering the major rearrangment that you have done, and I respectfully disagree with just about all your changes and am just about to revert the page.

User:Kenny sh: I am sorry for too big rearrangement.

1. The category groupings are intended to be in the same order as on the Main Page, so that subjects can easily be found. The Main Page is an entry point to top-level articles, while this page is an entry point to top-level lists of articles.

User:Kenny sh: I understand you. IMHO order of Main Page is not ideal.

2. You moved Chemistry and its subfields from the Natural Sciences to the Applied Sciences. Perhaps the articles include both natural phenomena and man-made applications, but so do the other Natural Sciences and Mathematics. And chemistry is certainly not a study of humans like the social sciences and arts.

User:Kenny sh: I agree.

3. "About Humans" is a very awkward phrase, and is not a parallel construction to "Natural Sciences" and "Abstract Sciences" (and what does the latter term mean? -- that it doesn't have any practical applications?) GUllman 01:31, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

--Kenny sh 11:11, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC): It would more nice to say 'Human sciences', but not every knowledge is science. For example, Government is Applied Art or Sciences? IMHO, it is something related to Humans environment. I think, that it could be some basic knowlefge domains: General (instead Abstract Sciences), Humans ("About Humans", contains Culture, Government, Psyholgy, Domestic environment, etc), Nature (sciences and not sciences, "Green Peace" for example), and Techlology (Cars, Robots, Computers). It is my point of view. What do you think about it? Were can I imlement it?

Go ahead and create your own page by adding it to the list at Wikipedia:Category schemes. You will know whether it gains support if other people add to it. GUllman 22:52, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Move complete

Couldn't move it using the move tab, since there was already a history here.

Sister project: List of basic topic lists

The Wikipedia:Basic topics page is in the process of being converted into a list of basic topic lists.

List of fictional things

The article List of fictional things or Archive of fictional things should be restored and transferred to this page under a "fictional topics" section. The purpose of the article was to be a reference for other fictional articles, but was deleted as "listcruft." I would appreciate someone going to deletion review or contacting an admin for this to happen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.28.175.4 (talk) 17:05, August 25, 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 May 2018

Tahsinrashid (talk) 05:10, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Tahsin Ull Atta Qazi was born in 14 may 1977

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. — AfroThundr ^(t•c) 05:47, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

I've found an error with a link on this page:   --- Jupiter-crossing asteroids --- links to some random page about the letter "H". I tried a search to find the proper page it should link to but I would rather someone more knowledgeable than I fix it.  Mreed72 (talk) 16:45, 15 April 2019 (UTC)