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Welcome to the The Alternate Future Wiki! This is our help page on how to use and navigate around this wiki. First, make sure that this is the right wiki, as we only accept alternate future history, a event of an ATL in the future. If you're looking for a place to write OTL future history, visit the Future Wiki. If you're looking for a place to write past and present ATL history, visit the Althistory Wiki. Alternatively, you may go to Futureverse Wiki where OTL future history are allowed, Implausible Alternate History Wiki where past and present ATL history are allowed and Constructive Worlds Wiki where all kinds of speculative fiction are allowed. Secondly follow our rules and if you need help, please contact our administrators.
What is alternate future history
- Main article: Alternate Future Wiki:What is Alternate Future History?
You may have heard of alternate history, events in the past and present that went different at a certain point in history as you can see on the Alternate History Wiki or future history, possible histories in the future contributed by the OTL present as you can see on the Future Wiki. Alternate future history is a timeline of history that went different form our time line (OTL) and it reached out into the future. A point of change in the past that caused great differences in later events from the events in OTL is called point of divergence (POD).
An alternative future differs from alternative history in that alternative history usually speculates on what might have happened in the past if some events in the past had occurred differently, while an alternative future usually speculates on what might happen in the future. Also, alternative histories commonly forgot time travel, while alternative futures do not.
Also, alternate future differs from OTL future history. An alternative future story is specifically set in an alternative timeline, that is, one that, within the context of the story, does not come about to pass.
In some administrative pages, such as this one, you may see a group of links directing you to other pages. These are navigation templates.
The main navigation or Mainnav is used to navigate around main pages. These include the main page, the TSPTF page, the rules page, the report page, the featured article nomination page, the featured image nomination page, the annual Stirling Awards page and the embassy. These pages are among the most important pages and can be used for easy access by a user who needs immediate help or reference, as well as for main nominations.
The TSPTF navigation or TSPTFnav is used to navigate around the TSPTF pages. These include the TSPTF page, the TSPTF talk page, the report page, the user rights promotion page and the Wall of Shame. These pages are used for administrative help and advise.
The rules navigation or Rulesnav is used to navigate around policy pages. These include the rules page, the report page, copyright laws, privacy policy and the deletion policy. These pages are used for rules and policy review.
Main Pages
TSPTF
- Main article: Alternate Future Wiki:TSPTF
The TSPTF is where you can lookup and contact administrators. The purpose is for:
- Additional help and advice
- Request to block a user
- Request to change, add or remove a rule
- Request to change, add or remove a feature or wiki layout
- Request to promote and demote users
- Request to affiliate a wiki you administrate
There are four user rights; rollbacks (constables), chat moderators (sub-lieutenants), administrators (lieutenants) and bureaucrats (brasses). Rollbacks have the ability it quickly revert unwanted edits, chat moderators have the rights to kick and ban users only on chat, admins have the rights to ban users, change the wiki's layout and have chat mod and rollback rights and bureaucrats have the rights to change other user's rights and have admin rights.
Rules
- Main article: Alternate Future Wiki:Rules
The rules is the main policy of this wiki. While every wiki has slightly different policies and consequences, here are some that are common on almost all wikis on Wikia:
- No vandalism
- No spam
- No plagiarism
- No unwanted editing
- No impersonation
- No disruption
- No NSFW content
- No abusing user rights
Depending on how serve, an administrator may give you a warning or block you, either temporarily or permanently depending on severity. On the rule's talk page, you may ask to add, change or remove a policy.
Report
- Main article: Alternate Future Wiki:TSPTF/Report
If you see rule violations, please report it. It must be honest, because faking it can bring consequences. You may also unblock another user.
Nomination
Like in many wikis, we nominate featured articles, featured images, users for promotion and users for the annual Stirling Awards. For a supportive vote, use this template 
Support — . For a neutral vote, use this template 
Neutral — . For an opposing vote, use this template 
Oppose — . Based on how many people support or oppose a decision, it's either a pass or a fail.
Embassy
- Main article: Alternate Future Wiki:Embassy
The Alternate Future Wiki:Embassy is where you can deal with cross-wiki issues such as:
- Bans and unbans of users on other wikis.
- Importation and exportation of articles between this wiki and another.
- Affiliations with other wikis.
Creating articles
To create articles type a title on the text field below or go to the "Contribute" tab on the upper right corner and then click on "Create a New Page", or click on this link. <createbox/> After you have entered a title, select a standard layout, with preloaded text, or blank. After you have written down information click publish and there you go. If you chose the standard layout, you may see a template that looks like the one below after you've published.
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The following page is under construction.
Please do not edit or alter this article in anyway, other than stuff like spelling corrections, while this template is active. All unauthorized edits may be reverted on the admin's discretion. Propose any changes to the talk page. |
This is to show that your article is incomplete and may need few more edits to finish. You can lookup more template for your page here. You can also add braces (or curly brackets, {}) within a title to add templates or add "Template:" to a title to create one.
Adding templates
- Main article: Alternate Future Wiki:Templates
Templates are used to add tags, boxes and more for administrative and design purposes. Tags are placed on top of an article or section and it's used to tell the status and the needs of an article or page. Boxes are placed below tags when editing and on the right when published and are used to tell information about the topic (information about a country, person, party, etc.) and sometimes on other places of an article to give statistics. Navigation boxes are placed on the bottom of articles to navigate around other pages in a timeline.
Regarding editing status
While someone may want their articles to be edited others don't. If you would like your article to be edited by others use the template below:
Feel free to add to edit to your heart's content. Thank you.
If you don't want your article to be edited by others, use this template below:
The author(s) of this timeline are not accepting major edits to this work.
Ask the author before editing. Any unauthorized edits will be reverted. Thank you.
Pay close attention to these templates before making edits on other people's articles. Articles that have neither both templates will still be regard to be closed to contributors.
Regarding adoption
If you don't want to be the owner of a page, you may request an adoption and another person may take care of it. Use the template below if you no longer would like to work on it:
Feel free to make this article your own. Thank you.
Regarding deletion, merging and separation
If an article is in the criteria for deletion, place this template below:
 This page is a candidate for deletion. If you disagree with its deletion, please explain why at Category talk:Candidates for deletion, merging and separation or improve the page and remove the Remember to check what links here and the page history before deleting. |
When consensus is met, an administrator may choose to either delete or keep a page. If you think a small article as a near-identical topic with another article, you might consider merging the articles, or if a section doesn't belong in an article, you may consider separating the articles. If you feel two articles must be merged, place the template below on both articles:
 This page is a candidate for merging. If you disagree with its merging, please explain why at Category talk:Candidates for deletion, merging and separation or improve the page and remove the Remember to check what links here and the page history before merging. |
Or if you feel a section needs to be separated from a page, place the template below on the section
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If you think an article is obsolete, however use the below template:
| File:Gnome-system-file-manager.svg | The following article is obsolete.
This article is no longer part of the associated timeline. This page has not been deleted from this website for sentimental and reference purposes. You are welcome to comment on the talk page. |
Editing Pages
To edit a page, simply click the "Edit" button next to the title or click "Contribute" and then "Edit the page". Then change, add or delete text and publish again.
Categorizing pages
On the very bottom of the page, you can see categories and you can add categories to your page. But after you add a category, you may only delete it in the edit source. To create a category, you either enter a non-existing category and click the red link or add "Category:" to a title. You can also add categories in the edit source.