Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternate History

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
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!

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:


 * The entire set of articles in the 1632 series needs a lot of work.
 * article about The New Order: Last Days of Europe (TNO) needs to be worked on.

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: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. 


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

Completed requests

 * Image:Xavras Wyżryn Map.PNG by at Xavras Wyżryn

Categories

 * Category:Alternate history
 * Category:Battle Royale (franchise)
 * Category:Birmoverse
 * Category:Alternate history characters
 * Category:Alternate history comics
 * Category:Alternate history films
 * Category:Alternate history games
 * Category:Alternate history novels
 * Category:Alternate history short stories
 * Category:Sidewise Award winners
 * Category:Steampunk
 * Category:Wild Cards
 * Category:World War II alternate histories
 * Category:Alternate history writers
 * Category:Nantucket series
 * Category:The Emberverse series
 * Category:1632 series
 * Category:1632 series books
 * Category:Alternate history anthologies
 * Category:Alternate history fandom
 * Category:American Civil War alternate histories
 * Category:Alternate history novels set in ancient Rome

Templates
Use this to tag articles' talk pages:



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

Project Userboxes
which can be used by adding User WP AH to your userpage and

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.

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

which you can get by putting this on your userpage:

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

Related projects

 * WikiProject Science Fiction
 * WikiProject History
 * WikiProject Novels/Military fiction task force

Online Databases

 * Uchronia has an introduction to the topic, and lists over 2000 works of alternate history.
 * Flags of the World has thousands of pages dedicated to the study of real and fictional flags.
 * Alternate History Books is a site similar to Uchronia.
 * The Internet Speculative Fiction Database has articles on alternate history novels and authors.

Reviews

 * SciFi.com
 * Metacritic
 * Strange Horizons
 * SF Reviews.net
 * SFRevu
 * Rambles.net
 * Fresh Fiction
 * Romantic Times Book Reviews
 * SF Site

Other Resources

 * 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

 * Alternate History Wiki
 * Eric Flint Wiki
 * S.M. Stirling Wiki
 * Harry Turtledove Wiki