Wikipedia talk:List of reference tables/Archive 1

message: The article has grown big ( > 46 K) and its time to prune. I plan to remove links that are already available in the main link. For e.g., if there are links duplicated both here and in List of physics topics, I plan to remove those. Jay 14:18, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Rather then removing them by topic, I'd remove them by type: e.g. those included in Lists of people, list of countries and their main sublists (as this already being done), I'd add those available on lists of articles by category. Being a list, 46K isn't that much, we still could grow. -- User:Docu
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Where does the table of lunar month correspondences go? --User:Juuitchan
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It would be easier to find things here if lines didn't start with "List of ..." or "Table of ..." but started with the topic.
Maurreen 19:16, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talk, 2004-2005 

message: As the number of lists, categories, and reference tables grows, the need for a proper cataloguing project grows as well.  :Category:Lists is still rather underdeveloped.   Something like the original Wikipedia:Categories categorization project may be called for.   +sj + 22:10, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  New meta-categorization project 

message: I moved this page from "Wikipedia Almanac" back to "List of reference tables". It doesn't look like this move was discuss or consensus was achieved to move it. An article on the "Wikipedia Almanac" because no such published material exists in prominence and notability for us to write an article on it (and this is a list, not an article). Prolaiming this list to be the "Wikipedia Almanac" is against the rules - see avoid self references.--Jiang 04:43, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved page 

message: Is this for just any list or the most important? Maurreen 03:38, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Any list or most important?

message: Shouldn't the self-ref that was just removed be in there? Afaik the selfref template is only meant to go at the top; is there a bottom-specific see-also selfref template message that should be there? -Quiddity 00:37, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  self-ref 

message: Since when is a list a table? Template:Reference pages (header bar) doesn't make sense because the title of this page doesn't make sense. This page is another list of lists. Rfrisbietalk 04:12, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree.  This list has gotten out of control, and no longer contains what its title indicates.  The page should be renamed, or the non-tables removed.  --The Transhumanist 22:21, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh? 

message: Wikipedia: Almanac - describes the content well.  I had named it Wikipedia Almanac before, but the self-reference wasn't appropriate in the article namespace and eventually got reverted. It would be appropriate in the Wikipedia namespace, which is already self-referential.  Then "Lists of topics" and "Lists of lists" could be folded-in to it, as these 3 lists unnecessarily overlap.  --The Transhumanist 22:37, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see how all those lists would be part of an almanac. They're more comprehensive than that. Rfrisbietalk 23:10, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hmmm, in that case, it's just another "Lists of topics".  --The Transhumanist 10:12, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename proposal 

message: I like what you did on List of academic disciplines.  Did you use Excel on that? --The Transhumanist 10:15, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good job