Outline upkeep has a convention worth keeping: the general topic first and the concrete example last

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A bot can alphabetize an outline but it cannot tell you that two of your branches overlap The outline guideline says to nest entries inside their parent theme: alphabetizing inside a hierarchy is what keeps it navigable An unlinked branch is the cheapest gap detector an outline offers: it shows what nobody has written yet Stub categories are a to-do list almost nobody reads and tagging a stub is not expanding it How to decide whether a theme deserves its own outline or just a longer section in the parent one Every field has its own outline and what an outline of economics shares with an outline of religion is only the scaffolding How big data is changing survey-based social research Is the survey still the best way to study society How do you tell real social change from a temporary mood swing? Fact-checking rarely changes minds and sometimes backfires