Talk:Outline of Colorado prehistory

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Outline usefulness, content, etc.[edit]

I started this outline with the hope that it might help readers interested in knowing about people indigenous to Colorado and am hoping for input about:

whether this seems like a useful outline?
if so, how does the **draft** of the outline seem content-wise?--CaroleHenson (talk) 01:36, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, very useful/informative. The Transhumanist 21:20, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Major events[edit]

I moved these here from the outline, for discussion. These didn't take place during the range of history covered by the outline, so I'm wondering how well they fit...

If these are included, young readers without a firm grasp of what "prehistory" means might assume that prehistory extends to include these events, since the subject presented by the outline is prehistory. The Transhumanist 21:20, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, good point!--CaroleHenson (talk) 02:03, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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"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 23:52, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]