Talk: Owen2019

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Regards, NuclearVacuum (talk) 22:18, November 25, 2019 (UTC)

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Hello and welcome to the Alternate History Wiki!

We are a community for creating fictional alternative histories. We hope you will feel at home here and wish you good luck contributing to our ever-growing collection of timelines.

Please start by reading our Guide to Newcomers. It contains links to the important sections of the wiki.
If you're new to wikis in general, see How to Make Articles.
If you're ready to create an article, see Conventions in Use in this Wiki. It explains how to title and categorize your pages, what kinds of content are allowed, and other rules of the site.

Some other helpful reference pages:

General introduction to Alternate History: What is Alternative History?
A glossary of our particular jargon: Alternative History:Terminology.
Lists of our content: List of Althists, Points of Divergence, and Ideas.

Some general tips:

This wiki is for alternate history, not future timelines. What you write should take place before 2021.
All articles on this wiki take the following format: Name of article (Name of Timeline). This helps us know which pages belong together.
To sign your posts on talk pages, use ~~~~ (four tildes). This will insert your name and timestamp.
You can experiment in the Sandbox.

Wrong usage! Sign with your name: {{welcome|~~~~}}

Bronwyn the 2nd (talk) 00:01, February 4, 2020 (UTC)

Conspiracy theories

We don't have a specific policy on conspiracy theory as such. It depends on what you're trying to do with it, and probably also on what theory you're using. What is Althistory explains that secret histories are not alternate history; so spelling out a conspiracy to explain OTL events is not for this wiki. Now if you're putting a conspiracy to use in another way, like using it as a point of divergence to change history, that could be OK.

But it also depends on which theory you have in mind. A lot of conspiracy theory has a basis in racist narratives, which would violate the Community Guidelines that we're bound by. If you made a TL that explained how the Holocaust never happened or something like that, that would definitely not be allowed.

The main thing to remember that our wiki is for exploring changes to history, making interesting stories, and creating interesting settings; its purpose is not sharing our own fringe theories. So it depends on what you're planning to do. What do you have in mind? Benkarnell (talk) 16:08, May 25, 2020 (UTC)

This is for your Timeline (My World) page? That seems like adding a "secret history" element to it, since it has nothing to do with any of the other events on it. Why not explore the consequences of the changes to history that you already made? Benkarnell (talk) 12:54, May 26, 2020 (UTC)