Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-3361105-20130322231945/@comment-1511643-20130503093227

It's big and has it's own unique history, setting, and characters, which *does* make it special.

I again refer you to Hatebunny's post on the reason for Prime- "Some of the characters, however, were too different to leave it like that." Exact quote, how different the characters are matters. When some characters are different alignments with different histories, and other characters are six characters, that's pretty darn different.

Also, not "often only." "Is only." It's a policy of precisely one timeline at this point. No other alt timelines are folded into the main article. Either they're worth their own article or they don't get any article. See the above linked Walter West page.

"Exception that proves the rule," is a phrase that doesn't mean it's most common usage. It roughly means "An exception that *questions* or *tests* the rule." Which makes us ask ourself, 'what purpose does this rule serve?'. Right now, it mostly serves to make it harder to get Flashpoint data. I believe this exception has proven the rule wanting.

When you have Prime and FP affected, then sure, it's a rule applied to multiple things. When only FP is affected, and there's multiple ones that don't use it, it's a pretty leaky 'rule'.