Board Thread:Policies/@comment-1038387-20150802214650

The Reality Template has a parameter, "Status", which can be Existing, Defunct and Destroyed; some of that division is carried over into the categories, with Pre-COIE and Hypertime thrown into the mix making it even messier. The numbering from AbsCOIE uses stories from both Multiverses. We've also had several Defunct realities brought back from the dead (Batman '66, Wonder Woman '77, etc.) and Convergence declared that all past universes still exist, somehow.

Clearly making this differentiation utterly pointless. If we were to put everything in an "Existing" category, it adds nothing useful. Nothing is Destroyed, and the only thing truly Defunct is old TV series, movie serials and movies.

IIRC, there was a minor discussion years back about the disorder of the reality categories and a thought of just putting all of them in one category. For example, our Hypertime realities category includes random Vertigo and Johnny DC titles that were never explicitly part of Hypertime.

So why don't we get rid of it altogether? It's clearly not a good way of organizing realities. Get rid of the template field and just lump all realities in one big Realities category? Maybe have a Vertigo Realities or something? Thoughts? 