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Welcome to the Alternate History WikiProject!

Goals
  • Improve Wikipedia's coverage of alternate history.
  • Create guidelines for articles about alternate history.
Scope
  • Articles about topics closely linked with alternate history including: novels, short stories/novellas, films, games, comics, and authors.
  • Not in scope: Fiction that merely vaguely claims to be set in our universe's history. (Star Wars is not alternate history because it was set "a long time ago". Use common sense.)

Assessment

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This project will improve the quality and breadth of articles in the alternate history category and its subcategories using an assessment process. Project members are urged to take an active role in reviewing articles about alternate history.

To-do

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  • Tag articles.
  • Recruit more members.
  • Collaborate and discuss on talk page.
  • Check the Open Task list for articles that need Cleanup, Expansion, or Creation.
  • Start looking for featured articles and lists for examples on ways to improve articles.
  • Check to see if the Alternate history article needs improvement.
  • Add to the List of alternate history fiction.
  • Assess an article that needs an assessment.
  • Add things here!

Members

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Open tasks

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There are a lot of articles related to alternate history that need work done to them. Feel free to put any articles in list:

Map requests

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Often an article relating to alternate history can benefit from a map to describe the political changes to the world. For an example of some maps go here:Maps of Alternate histories. If you would like a map created, post a request below and an interested project member may assist you. The Alternate History Wiki has a bunch of blank maps that may be useful for this. [1]

  • 1632 (novel) - need a map that corresponds with Europe or the Holy Roman Empire of 1631-32.

Completed requests

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Categories

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Templates

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Use this to tag articles' talk pages:

{{WikiProject Alternate History}}

It will place the Project Banner on the talk page. The code looks something like this

{{WikiProject Alternate History
  |class=
  |importance=
}}

Project Userboxes

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which can be used by adding {{User WP AH}} to your userpage and

This user is a member of
WikiProject Alternate History
or just very confused.

which can be used by adding {{User WP AH 2}} to your userpage.

which can be used by adding {{User WP AH assessment}} to your userpage.

This user wants you to join
WikiProject
Alternate History
.

Just copy and paste this {{User WP AH I}} or {{User WP AH invite}} Use this userbox to invite another wikipedian to join this project.

Additional AH Userboxes

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This user is interested in
alternate history.



which you can get by putting this on your userpage: {{User:Oren neu dag/my userboxes/User AH}}

This user enjoys reading alternate history fiction.

which you can get by putting this on your userpage: {{User:Erielhonan/UBX/Alt-history}}

Alternate history: the canvas upon which this user
paints "what if".

which you can get by putting this on your userpage: {{User AH Canvas}}

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Online Databases

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Reviews

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Other Resources

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  • The World Hitler Never Made is a novel that discusses various WWII alternate histories. See the index for various resources as well including reviews
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