Talk:Outline of Belarus

Tips for developing country outlines

Instructions for developing country outlines is located at Wikipedia:Outlines (while that section is complete, the page is a draft, and will be moved to the Wikipedia namespace when completed). The Transhumanist 21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

What is the point of outline articles? How do they differ from generic articles on subjects?

Think of them as a table of contents for their main article. WesJensen (talk) 15:26, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

A note concerning redlinks...

Many of the entries (and their links) are standard across all of the country outlines, to aid readers, especially young readers, in comparing countries to each other.

So if this country doesn't have any of a particular entry, like navies, please don't delete the entry. Instead, complete it with "none" (and a brief explanation as to why, for example, "- x is a landlocked country with no ports"). If the explanation exists in an article on Wikipedia, then click on the redlink and create a redirect to that location. See Wikipedia:Redirect, WP:Section linking, and Help:Section#Section_linking.

Standard redlinks (article names) were also chosen based on how country coverage tipically expands. This makes the standard names for these subtopics widely available and easily accessible. So please do not remove those redlinks, for they will turn blue eventually. In the meantime, they can be redirected to the section of whatever article has the relevant information, if any. See Wikipedia:Redirect, WP:Section linking, and Help:Section#Section_linking.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: To discuss the standard design of the country outlines, or of outlines in general, do so on the Outline of knowledge WikiProject talk page.

Guidelines for outlines

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

Your input and feedback is welcomed and encouraged.

The Transhumanist 21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Please check and fix the government section

The government section needs to be checked for accuracy. The initial data placed in the government branches sections was generated by template, and the data didn't fit all countries.

So those sections need to be looked over, and fixed if needed.

Please help.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: If you'd like to help out with other tasks concerning Wikipedia's Outline of knowledge, please drop me a note on my talk page.

Needed maintenance on country outlines

Please check this outline for the following problems, and fix if present:

• If the Local government section is empty (or only has a red "main" link), please remove the section. (If it has a blue "main" link, do not remove).
• Underdeveloped Education section - add more links.
• Redlinks that are unlikely to ever turn blue - remove or delink as appropriate.
• Out-of-date incumbant names - remove. No need to add the new incumbants, as the links to the articles on the position titles should suffice.

Thank you. The Transhumanist 02:15, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

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 23:51, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

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Merge proposal

In the Articles for deletion/Index of Abkhazia-related articles AfD nomination, I have identified these indices as appropriate for merging. This is because they have have similar format to the respective outlines. Yet, the other concerns with indices of countries remain: no ability or will to expand them to a comprehensive size, and redundance. As such, I view these splits as redundant, and I propose the merges contained in the following list. Dege31 (talk) 01:58, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

• I am not sure what it is that you're trying to achieve, but whatever it is, this isn't the way to go about it. We will not be having a discussion on moving "List of Ireland-related topics (sections that cover the Republic of Ireland) -> Outline of the Republic of Ireland" at Talk:Outline of Belarus. And the same goes for all of the other moves you've suggested. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 09:47, 11 July 2025 (UTC)
  • They're all the same rationale, and I am aware that the merge discussion could last for months and months otherwise if it's all separate, without editors being aware. I have notified all the other pages and relevant WikiProjects, if that's your concern. Dege31 (talk) 14:33, 11 July 2025 (UTC)
    • It doesn't matter what the rationale is. It's not the way Wikipedia works. We can have centralised discussions, yes, but that does not extend to having move proposals happen for one article happen on an effectively random other, unrelated page. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 18:35, 11 July 2025 (UTC)
      • Ok, could you tell me where it should be? Dege31 (talk) 19:12, 11 July 2025 (UTC)
        • I'm pretty sure everything is okay as long as notice is left on those pages and relevant wikiprojects are notified. Easternsahara (talk) 13:47, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
          • I've been here a while and I'm pretty sure it's not... It's going to need individual proposals on each of the individual source and target pages, in addition to notifying relevant wikiprojects. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 12:40, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

            We can have centralised redirect, deletion, etc discussions, but not merge discussions? I mean I can take this to AfD no problem, but I want more time if there's agreement. Dege31 (talk) 15:18, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

    • The rationale is not the same because you're proposing three things - one-to-one merges of outlines to lists, one-to-two merging of Ireland, and one-to-two merging of Northern Ireland. I don't have a strong opinion on having the one-to-one discussions in one place, but the latter two should be split out. Consigned (talk) 10:36, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

      Fair point. I am going to strike the Ireland targets. Dege31 (talk) 16:48, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

I Support the merge because of redundancy as an unnecessary split/fork. 🇪🇭 Easternsahara U T C 14:24, 22 July 2025 (UTC)