purpose this rfc will be used to determine community consensus for outlines potential resources to gain information wikipedia talk outlines points user talk dbachmann more on outlines possibly this should be extended to be a discussion of navigation articles within mainspace taking from 's post on dbachmann's talk page i can see broadening this to include indexes and lists of x topics in my opinion glossaries timelines and year articles may be useful for navigation but they also have the capability to become complete articles used for purposes other than navigation i don't see outlines indexes and lists of x topics articles as being able to be more than a navigational aid thoughts