Talk:Outline of painting

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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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Painting topics[edit]

There is this List of basic painting topics and there is another List of painting topics, both having to do with artistic painting. I would like to suggest a merging of these 2 lists. The article Painting has to do with artistic painting. Painting buildings and similar structures is covered under Painter and decorator. Painting and Decorating is a redirect leading to Painter and decorator. I cannot find an article on painting as in applying paint to vehicles and other non-building items, which discusses industrial and body shop spray painting, etc. Perhaps there should be an article on "Painting" in general, and the current Painting article covering artistic painting moved to Painting (art) or Artistic painting. H Padleckas 04:56, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rename proposal for this page and all the pages of the set this page belongs to[edit]

See the proposal at the Village pump

The Transhumanist 09:22, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Guidelines for outlines[edit]

Guidelines for the development of outlines are being drafted at Wikipedia:Outlines.

Your input and feedback is welcomed and encouraged.

The Transhumanist 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The "History of" section needs links![edit]

Please add some relevant links to the history section.

Links can be found in the "History of" article for this subject, in the "History of" category for this subject, or in the corresponding navigation templates. Or you could search for topics on Google - most topics turn blue when added to Wikipedia as internal links.

The Transhumanist 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Straw poll and discussion concerning what outlines should be called[edit]

A discussion is underway that may affect the name of this article.

See: Wikipedia talk:Outlines#Should articles named "Outline of x" be renamed to "List of x topics"?

The Transhumanist 04:36, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing[edit]

What's happening to the simple outline format? Why has this become so convoluted?...Modernist (talk) 03:13, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what happened, but now that I look at it, it seems to be an arbitrary group of blue links, and I guess it needs a serious overhaul, or the last serious overhaul needs to be re-visited...Jane (talk) 07:34, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines[edit]

"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 00:08, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]