Forum:Alternate realities

I think we need some kind of streamlining of what the difference is between an "alternate reality" and a "parallel universe" on here.

My proposal is this: the "alternate reality" is a "parallel universe" that refers to the events in, while other parallels, like Pendragon and Remington, are just "parallel universes," which would serve to differentiate them. It would make using the articles that involve the alternate versions of Kirk, Spock, et. al, much easier.

My proposal is basically what MA does, and I think it would fit really well here. The term "parallel universe" can easily be used to refer to any story that significantly departs from regular canon facts, while preserving the term "alternate reality" just makes differentiating that much easier.

I'm not sure how to handle alternate timelines, though. My thinking is that it'd just be used in-series as a term to describe one-time instances.

Basically:


 * Alternate reality:
 * Parallel universe:, , etc.
 * Alternate timeline: ,

So in short, is an alternate timeline since it involved time manipulation, but since it's so important, it gets a category on its own. Pendragon and Remington are parallel universes because their differences weren't caused by direct temporal manipulation, while and  are alternate timelines because they were caused by temporal manipulation.

I'd like to hear everyone else's thoughts on this, since to make this official policy would involve changing a lot of articles. -- Kevin W. &bull; Talk to me 03:54, May 1, 2010 (UTC)