User blog comment:Hatebunny/The DCnU, and why we have not made new pages/@comment-1640503-20120524182455

Speaking from the perspective of a physicist and an historian, your explanation is disastrous. You've just quantized (certainly unintentionally) history as a fundamental force of the universe like gravity or the electro-weak. Differentiating between alternate universes and alternate timelines is scientifically speaking semantic masturbation, which can only make any sort of sense if you quantize history as a natural force. Furthermore you aren't even using your own twisted logic consistently, there should be no distinction between Earth-One and the post-crisis "New-Earth", as New-Earth is the collapse of the multiverse into a template of Earth-One.

From the perspective of literary analysis, and with an eye towards the business model that actually prompted DC to create the DCnU, I understand and agree with the skepticism that it will stick around, but that is actually exactly why the DCnU should be getting distinct pages. The sometimes significant tweaks to continuity that can happen with big events or just a new editorial team, don't really change the history that much. Which is why it doesn't make sense to create a new page for Superman after "Superman: Birthright" since those changes were still compatible with the main biography and history of the character prior to and after the miniseries. The distinctions however between the characters of the DCnU post-relaunch and the universe they live in is so different from what came before that even if the changes are short-lived the biographical data in the character pages would read atrociously if we didn't create new character pages.