outline articles 

I read your posts about outlines on AnnaFrance's talk page and decided to call the military history project for help in establishing guidance and providing review processes where editors can get outside opinion. The thread can be found here. Greetings   

Historical outlines
Regarding Category:Historical outlines...

I still strongly believe those "Historical outline of foo" articles should actually be named "Timeline of foo". More accurate and precise, and perhaps comprehensible. (I mentioned it before somewhere, but can't find it now).

For an example, compare Outline of Illinois history with Timeline of Chicago history.

Maybe we need to upgrade List of timelines to be a part of the Portal:Contents/ set?

Just a note, for you to consider, whilst you're mass-moving things around... )    

 Based on the way the history section of outlines have been developed (especially the history sections of country outlines), the major classification scheme seems to be:

 By period
 By region
 By subject

 Which makes these articles general outlines, rather than timelines.  The "By period" section may be a timeline, if it is formatted that way.

 As far as I can tell, the "historical outline of" articles by Buaidh aren't chronological, but topical, which makes them generic outlines rather than outlines of the timeline variety.  

 The Transhumanist