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 A guide to What If terminology. A guide to What If terminology.
  
-**WI:** What If ? (and not "Women's Institute" as some new British members have thought)+**WI:** What If? (and not "Women's Institute" as some new British members have thought)
  
-**DBWI:** [[Double Blind What If]]. Correctly, this means writing from the perspective of another timeline and asking 'what if' the POD that produced that timeline had gone the other way - in other words, asking about OTL. For example, "DBWI: What if John Wilkes Booth had succeeded in his attempt to assassinate Lincoln?" However, many people misuse the DBWI terminology, which makes Baby VoCSe cry, so don't. 'DB RP' has recently been suggested as a title for pure in-timeline roleplaying threads.+**DBWI:** [[Double Blind What If]]. Correctly, this means writing from the perspective of another timeline and asking 'what if' the POD that produced that timeline had gone the other way - in other words, asking about OTL. For example, "DBWI: What if John Wilkes Booth had succeeded in his attempt to assassinate Lincoln?" However, many people misuse the DBWI terminology, which makes Baby [[offtopic:VoCSe]] cry, so don't. 'DB RP' has recently been suggested as a title for pure in-timeline roleplaying threads.
  
 **TBWI**: Triple Blind What If. By analogy, but no-one can agree on what it means. **TBWI**: Triple Blind What If. By analogy, but no-one can agree on what it means.
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 ==== See Also ==== ==== See Also ====
  
-**[[pods/pods|Point(s) of Divergence]]**+**[[pods:pods|Point(s) of Divergence]]**
  
 **[[AH Challenge]]** **[[AH Challenge]]**
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