Talk:Outline of Hawaii

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	This article is an outline, a type of article that presents a list of articles or sub-topics related to its subject in a hierarchical form. For the standardized set of outlines on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines. Outlines are within the scope of WikiProject Outlines, a collaborative effort to improve outlines on Wikipedia. For guidance on building and maintaining outlines, see Wikipedia:Outlines.OutlinesWikipedia:WikiProject OutlinesTemplate:WikiProject OutlinesOutlines articles
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Merge?

This seems redundant with Index of Hawaii-related articles. At least I would rather see one well-maintained article like this instead of two that are mostly red links, and things that do no apply. For example, there are no snakes, etc. Suggest a merge? W Nowicki (talk) 20:22, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Outline of Hawaii is a hierarchical outline of topics related to Hawaiʻi. The Index of Hawaii-ralated articles is an alphabetical index of articles related to Hawaiʻi. When completed, the two articles will have significantly different functions. I can only type so fast. Perhaps you would like to help? --Buaidh (talk) 21:04, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, no consensus to merge it seems. Yes, I have been adding a couple articles a day, see My Contributions, although we all have limited time. I can do a pass at this too if you do not mind. Aloha. W Nowicki (talk) 01:25, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also against the merge. This page is part of one of Wikipedia's parallel navigation systems. See Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge (formerly "Lists of basic topics"). For each major subject, there is typically 2 main lists: a structured list (outline) and an alphabetical list (index). The Transhumanist 00:06, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines

"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 23:55, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]