So I was sifting through tags today and what I will refer to as the history section seems like a mess to me...ok maybe that is too harsh, but I still think we can make it better. :)
We have:
and then a whole host of era specific tags
From my perspective, alternate-history is good to go and the tag wiki is nice and specific. We are talking about earth history with some sort of change be it major or minor.
I am also happy with the age/era specific tags, I think those make sense.
I would propose:
We eliminate the history tag, as it is too broad to be useful in categorization.
We add a tag, perhaps history-creation, or history-development or something similar for tagging questions related to creating an completely non-earth related history for a fictional world.
And yes I recognize the irony that history is our current topic challenge.