Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-3361105-20130322231945/@comment-1511643-20130503111753

... none of which have their Superman versions in the main Superman article or their Batman in the Batman article. Not a one.

In the other direction, we have Walter West and Prime Earth and the characters from Justice League: The Nail Kal-El (The Nail).

Flashpoint is 'special' in that the characters are significantly different than the baseline with their own histories and attitudes and even powers and some unique characters who already have their own pages. People have a reason to look them up. They aren't a 'five minutes into the future' alt timeline where things are identical except some event.

A policy needs more than one example before it can have exceptions. We're talking about the status of one universe here either way, and it's outnumbered by timelines who do it the other direction.

As for a reason to change it: It's easier to look up for people who want to look up the characters that way, and unclutters the New Earth pages.

Look, maybe it'd help if you could explain why it's a good policy? I'd be more than willing to drop it if you could articulate the benefits.