User:Mitro/Sandbox

Proposed Featured Alternate History Standards (Revised) Mitro 15:50, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Well-written: the prose of the alternate history is engaging, even brilliant, and of a professional standard;
 * Comprehensive: the alternate history neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context; more then one article is used to convey the alternate history
 * Plausible: the POD and the altered events following the POD are logically what would happen if history was changed
 * Neutral: the alternate history is not a thinly veiled attempt to promote a political, religious, nationalistic, etc. agenda; it is not a “wankfest”
 * Peaceful collaboration: it is not subject to ongoing edit wars.
 * Portal Page: the alternate history has a portal page that summarizes the work and prepares the reader for the detail in the connected articles;
 * Appropriate structure: articles in the alternate history have a system of hierarchical section headings, a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents and a lead section to describe the article
 * External sources: the alternate history provides OTL sources to support the events after the POD
 * Supplements: the alternate history makes use of pictures, flags, maps, tables, videos, etc.