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I propose that the article be renamed to Outline of the Ottoman Empire.
Indexes on Wikipedia are alphabetical topic lists. Therefore, the title of this implies that it is an alphabetical index, which can be misleading, as the reader gets something other than what he was expecting. See http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=Index+of+&namespace=0
The format of this article is a structured topic list - articles of this type on Wikipedia are called "outlines". See Wikipedia's collection of outlines at Portal:Contents/Outlines.
Here are some examples of how other outlines are named:
There are about 500 "Outline of" articles, on many major subjects, so this one on the Ottoman Empire will be in good company.
What do you think?
The Transhumanist 15:30, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved per request. - GTBacchus( talk) 00:18, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Index of Ottoman Empire-related topics →
Outline of the Ottoman Empire – To be inline with other
Category:WikiProject_Outlines_articles articles. —
HELLKNOWZ ▎
TALK
18:30, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
I appreciate efforts to change the style of the article by placing the links in a list instead of a paragraph. But is it necessary ? In most "list of articles of ..." and "outline of ... " the links are presented in paragraphs and I don’t see why the change is made here. Nedim Ardoğa ( talk) 13:01, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
" 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 00:11, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
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I propose that the article be renamed to Outline of the Ottoman Empire.
Indexes on Wikipedia are alphabetical topic lists. Therefore, the title of this implies that it is an alphabetical index, which can be misleading, as the reader gets something other than what he was expecting. See http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=Index+of+&namespace=0
The format of this article is a structured topic list - articles of this type on Wikipedia are called "outlines". See Wikipedia's collection of outlines at Portal:Contents/Outlines.
Here are some examples of how other outlines are named:
There are about 500 "Outline of" articles, on many major subjects, so this one on the Ottoman Empire will be in good company.
What do you think?
The Transhumanist 15:30, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved per request. - GTBacchus( talk) 00:18, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Index of Ottoman Empire-related topics →
Outline of the Ottoman Empire – To be inline with other
Category:WikiProject_Outlines_articles articles. —
HELLKNOWZ ▎
TALK
18:30, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
I appreciate efforts to change the style of the article by placing the links in a list instead of a paragraph. But is it necessary ? In most "list of articles of ..." and "outline of ... " the links are presented in paragraphs and I don’t see why the change is made here. Nedim Ardoğa ( talk) 13:01, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
" 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 00:11, 9 August 2015 (UTC)