Talk:Outline of South Africa
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Why so many redlinks?
[edit]The reason for most of the redlinks is because they are part of the standard design for this type of page...
In addition to custom links, each country's outline has the same standard links as the outlines for all the other countries. And in the same standard order. This makes it easy to compare countries, and also provides a familiar structure making it easier to study country outline pages because you get used to the order in which things are presented.
The standard links were chosen because they are the most likely names for expansion articles when country-related articles grow too large and are split. Therefore, most of the redlinks will turn blue as country coverage expands.
Sometimes the names of split-off articles do not match the standard. In those cases, moves are appropriate. Rename them to the standard. Having standard names for parallel country articles helps readers find them easier.
Until expansion articles become available, redirects can be created leading to the sections in articles where the information is currently presented. If it is presented at all, that is. Just click on a redlink and add a section redirect to wherever the information is in this Encyclopedia.
The Transhumanist 00:42, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Tips for developing country outlines
[edit]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)
A note concerning redlinks...
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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.
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 00:00, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion
[edit]The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion:
Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 17:37, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
