Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25626-20160417172810

Jonathan has recently suggested on the Mexican War talk page that we create a redirect for the analog war in T2G. I don't think that's appropriate since we know very little about that war details of the war, other than the NAU (and/or the British Empire?) defeated Nuevaesapnola (and/or the Spanish Empire?). Frankly, I'm not sure that we should include such that section in Mexican War article at all, so I feel now is as good a time as any to propose a catch-all fictional wars page for the wiki.

For a handy model, see the List of Wars in Disunited States, which could easily be expanded to a catch-all, actually. It would be divided into work/timeline, and then list each war and what we know about them. We'd create redirects as necessary.

Wars that would be eligible would be wars in which some crucial piece of info for good articles is missing--dates and duration of the wars, the belligerents, the cause, the outcome, etc. Using the T2G war, we're pretty sure it took place in roughly 1848 or so, and Nueva España lost territory to the NAU. I can't recall if either of the respective mother countries (Britain and Spain) were involved, and it took place over a century before the novel's setting. Those random details wouldn't be enough to sustain a viable article. Another example is the British-American War in GoTS. We know the causes and the belligerents, and even know what year the war began, but we don't know the outcome. 