Talk:Outline of the C sharp programming language
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[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 and Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines for more in-depth explanations. — The Transhumanist 00:56, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
Reason this is a separate article?
[edit]Why is this 'overview' separate from the C Sharp (programming language) article? RJFJR (talk) 02:10, 11 October 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for asking. Because it is a (large) structured topics list article, one of the types of specialized list articles. See Wikipedia:Outlines and Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines for an explanation of Wikipedia's outlines. For the entire collection of outlines on Wikipedia: See Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines.