Talk:Outline of Texas

Latest comment: 8 years ago by The Transhumanist in topic Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines

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"only, independent nation to become a state" really? What about the Kingdom of Hawaii, or (delectably) California? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.233.193.37 (talk) 09:45, 23 September 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 00:01, 9 August 2015 (UTC)Reply