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Project:WikiProject Alternate History

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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

  • 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

{{main|Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternate History/Members}}

Open tasks

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

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:[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_of_alternate_histories 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. [http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/blank_map_directory]

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

=Completed requests=

Categories

Templates

Use this to tag articles' talk pages:

{{tlx|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=

{{User WP AH}}

{{Clear}}

which can be used by adding {{tl2|User WP AH}} to your userpage and

{{User WP AH 2}}

{{Clear}}

which can be used by adding {{tl2|User WP AH 2}} to your userpage.

{{User WP AH assessment}}

{{Clear}}

which can be used by adding {{tl2|User WP AH assessment}} to your userpage.

{{Template:User WP AH I}}

{{Clear}}

Just copy and paste this {{tl2|User WP AH I}} or {{tl2|User WP AH invite}} Use this userbox to invite another wikipedian to join this project.

=Additional AH Userboxes=

{{User:Oren neu dag/my userboxes/User AH}}

{{Clear}}

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

{{User:Erielhonan/UBX/Alt-history}}

{{Clear}}

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

{{Template:User AH Canvas}}

{{Clear}}

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

Related projects

Resource links

{{wikiquote}}

{{Commons cat|Alternate history}}

=Online Databases=

  • [http://www.uchronia.net/ Uchronia] has an [http://www.uchronia.net/intro.html introduction to the topic], and lists over 2000 works of alternate history.
  • [http://flagspot.net/flags/ Flags of the World] has thousands of pages dedicated to the study of real and fictional flags.
  • [http://www.alternatehistorybooks.com/ Alternate History Books] is a site similar to Uchronia.
  • [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi The Internet Speculative Fiction Database] has articles on alternate history novels and authors.

=Reviews=

  • [http://search.scifi.com/search?q=&btnG=Search&entqr=0&output=xml_no_dtd&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&ie=UTF-8&lr=&client=scifi&ud=1&site=scifi&oe=&proxystylesheet=scifi&proxyreload=1 SciFi.com]
  • [http://www.metacritic.com/ Metacritic]
  • [http://www.strangehorizons.com/ Strange Horizons]
  • [http://www.sfreviews.net/index.html SF Reviews.net]
  • [http://www.sfrevu.com/ SFRevu]
  • [http://www.rambles.net/index.html Rambles.net]
  • [http://freshfiction.com/ Fresh Fiction]
  • [http://www.romantictimes.com/index.php Romantic Times Book Reviews]
  • [http://www.sfsite.com/search.htm SF Site]

=Other Resources=

  • [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZKNdxlzG6okC The World Hitler Never Made] is a novel that discusses various WWII alternate histories. See the index for various resources as well including reviews

=Alternate history related wikis=

  • [http://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page Alternate History Wiki]
  • [http://ericflint.fandom.com/wiki/Eric_Flint_Wiki Eric Flint Wiki]
  • [http://smstirling.fandom.com/wiki/S._M._Stirling_Wiki S.M. Stirling Wiki]
  • [http://turtledove.fandom.com/wiki/Harry_Turtledove_Wiki Harry Turtledove Wiki]