Talk:Outline of dance

tango

I would suggest to make two tango topics (and consequently split up the tango page.) Argentine tango and ballroom tango are two worlds that barely ever touch. As that page is currently under some development, it might be wise to wait a while before splitting it up, though. Any opinions? Kosebamse 17:28 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)

While this may sound facetious it isn't meant that way. Exotic dancing is a dance form that I believe deserves an entry in its own right - I have not added it, however, as it does not have (unlike most, if not all, of the others) discrete moves with technical names and thus cannot be specifically choreographed. It is, however, quite easy to distinguish it from other dance forms and it is stylistically unique. Melody 04:30, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I added some references to western couple dancing in the Ballroom section as it seemed the most appropriate location. I realize that these types of dances are not naturally associated with "competitive" ballroom dancing, but then I felt that the section could easily enough include this type or style of couples dancing.

Dan 13:32, 16. september 2003

bibliography?

how about a dance bibliography ? Ohka- 11:51, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

It would be good, but it better be annotated and classified, otherwise it will be useless. By the way, articles about books are perfectly valid in wikipedia. Mikkalai 04:51, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

content

the very top of the article says:

These should be the most basic topics in the field--topics about which we'd like to have articles soon. Please see the most basic encyclopedia article topics for general instructions on constructing this list.

Ohka, I really suggest you to read more about rules of wikipedia. You boldly started lots of edits, and I am afraid you are not always careful. I hate reverting editions of a good contributor. Mikkalai 03:00, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

you miss understand , or i should have explained more, the biblography would be a point of refernce for people making dance entires that all could draw on, to add to entries as further reading - see my user page for example. - a common resourse would save time. books tend to last longer than urls and have nmore detailed and specfic infromation . please excuse my spelling mistakes i have dyslexia, the mix of edits a part of a larger plan and although i work on several pages at the same time they are linked / related Ohka- 03:27, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, it is you who misunderstood me. I was not referring to your question. I started a new section, explaining my reversal of your added items. .... Ot the other hand, I look briefly in the lists of the basic tolics of other subjects and see that they don't really hold the agreement to stick to the basic issues. So probably I was wrong. You might want to think of this again and possibly add your changes back, if you decide them basic enough. Please don't forget there is a list of (supposedly) ALL dance topics, so Dance basic topics should be the roots, the core of hierarchies of dance topics. Mikkalai 04:48, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Why is this in the Wikipedia: namespace?

I don't understand. Why is this not in the main namespace? Lupin|talk|popups 21:27, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Ballet

Ballet is one of my favourite types of dance. It is also one of my favourite things to do. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.210.109.243 (talk) 22:53, 26 March 2007 (UTC).

Integrated/mixed ability dance

See my question here here

Cheers

Matt (talk) 02:18, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines"

See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines".

The Transhumanist 01:27, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

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

See the proposal at the Village pump

The Transhumanist 09:13, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

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 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

The "History of" section needs links!

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)

Straw poll and discussion concerning what outlines should be called

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 04:33, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Merger proposal

In Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Index of dance articles the result was Keep and not Delete. However, the alternative Merge was also preliminary discussed. Following on on that, I propose to Index of dance articles merge into Outline of dance.

• Index of dance articles is a list of no obvious added value over Outline of dance or just Category:Dance.
• Although Index of dance articles has many links that are not in the outline article, I don't think it is worth preserving them. The index article seems almost like a random selection from the Category:Dance and its subcategories. Almost like it was once just a personal user list of articles. There are no obvious inclusion criteria, no obvious reason of what the articles have with each other in common separate from Dance.
• The outline article in contrast contains only main dance topics and references, not just apparently random topics like Academy Award for Best Dance Direction, Hip hop dance and Open position.
• If the inclusion criteria would be Dance than all articles from the Category:Dance and its subcategories would potentially need to be included which would make it an extremely big list with no clear purpose. Dance is just a too broad category to capture in one list article.
• The guide function is already provided by Outline of dance. That article is intended to provide readers with a cohesive, comprehensive page that covers the many topical aspects of dance.

Concluding: I'd like to propose a merge by just making a redirect without using any data from Index of dance articles. LazyStarryNights (talk) 19:58, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose - Outline of dance is a topical overview in outline format, whereas Index of dance articles functions as a index list article that can be made more comprehensive, as indexes typically function. Expand the Index of dance articles instead (which I have begun to perform). Northamerica1000^(talk) 09:27, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
  • I do understand the function of alphabetical indexes for example in books, but to my understanding of Wikipedia that function is already fulfilled by things like categories and keyword search. I also am aware of Lists articles in Wikipedia, some alphabetical, some sorted by other criteria, some as a sort-able list. Often in table form providing information per entry. But I do not usually encounter a plain alphabetical list on such broadly defined topic. Do I miss something in my understanding? As for your expansion efforts: curious to your inclusion criteria and results. Do you have something in mind with a narrower definition than Category:Dance?. LazyStarryNights (talk) 15:24, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
    • LazyStarryNights, I think there is an argument for merger here, but in another direction. This article is a redundancy on Dance, and any material worth preserving should be moved there. Discussion on a central topic is more or less universally handled on the "parent" article for that topic, which is meant to function as the "outline" page by default (sans that awkward additional wording in the article title. This article is a significant divergence from core policy on how topics are established as notable and organized on Wikipedia. But the index article is as well; you are quite correct that the purpose and format to which that article is being bent are now largely meant to be handled by categories and other embedded elements, though index articles do continue to exist and there is no absolute consensus on their appropriateness. We also have list articles under rare circumstances, but usually to just list article entries on a one-dimensional criteria (list of sovereign states, list of North American newspapers, ect.) not as indexes for multifaceted topics with their own internal hierarchies -- those are meant to be delineated and discussed in a verifiable fashion in the prose and linking of parent and dependent articles and, as mentioned, by categories and other such tools. As it happens, Dance is already being overhauled (which is what brought me here, so I will try to incorporate a reasonable amount of the content here into that article (where it belongs anyway) and then consider proposing deletion here. The index is a more complex case in that members of WP:WikiProject Dance have been discussing cleaning up/augmenting the categories for dance for ages, and though there has been some headway this last year, there's a ways to go before I feel comfortable proposing deletion of the content in the index outright. Even then, it's likely to be an uphill battle to establish consensus on that point, though I dare say these indexes tend to be in conflict with general organizational policy. In any event, I don't want to propose the index's deletion until we can demonstrate it is completely redundant. Snow ^{let's rap} 02:44, 18 July 2015 (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 00:05, 9 August 2015 (UTC)