Timeline for Should the help center be updated to specifically list real world history questions as off topic?
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| Jul 17, 2015 at 11:43 | comment | added | user Mod | @Vincent That's certainly my intent, at least. I'm not proposing to make anything off topic that hasn't been off topic before, I'm merely proposing to clarify what is on topic with regards to questions based in history. | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 23:40 | comment | added | Vincent | Alternate history is still on topic I hope? | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 21:05 | comment | added | user Mod | We also could certainly list "cities" and "planets" as examples of "elements of a world" that are on topic. Both have been well received by the community already, even though I have no ready examples to point to right now. | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 20:56 | comment | added | user Mod | @TimB The question you link is about "designing a town in the Ozark mountain range circa 1871", which is worldbuilding because it is about creating something that wasn't there (which falls under "creation of elements of a world"). That it is asking what size population might be reasonable in such a setting doesn't make it a history question; that defines the setting. However, if the question had been "what was the population size of Footown, Ozark mountains, Arkansas, US in 1871?", that would be a history question because it asks specifically about the history of our real world. | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 20:51 | comment | added | user Mod | @DaaaahWhoosh Real-world future questions would certainly seem to me to potentially be about worldbuilding. Not sure why you'd want to exclude those; I encourage you to write a separate meta post about that and elaborate on your reasoning. | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 18:22 | comment | added | Tim B Mod | While I agree with this, we do need to be slightly careful here. There have been a number of excellent historically based questions that we would not want to exclude. For example: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/159/… | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 17:26 | comment | added | DaaaahWhoosh | I would also propose that questions about the real-world future are also off-topic. Many times I've had to reconsider a question because it was more about what will happen, rather than what could happen. Plus, such questions would be considered history questions to my far-future characters. | |
| S Jul 16, 2015 at 8:45 | answer | added | userMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| S Jul 16, 2015 at 8:45 | history | asked | userMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |