Board Thread:Policies/@comment-3361105-20150417020526

Hey everybody.

I'm seeing a lot of confusion about Convergence and how it works, and I'm seeing a lot of inconsistency in the tagging of appearances in the issues.

So, let's try to clear up that confusion with a little info on how the event works (spoilers for ahead):

The premise of the event is that Brainiac, a multi-dimensional super-god, has been collecting cities from different timelines and universes at the moment right before they would have been destroyed or erased. He then plops them down onto a planet called Telos. This means that different versions of the mainstream DC Universe can co-exist on this planet.

Telos, though, is a sentient planet, and he decides that while Brainiac is away, appearing in Futures End, he will make the different cities fight to determine which among them will survive and live on him. Or something like that.

The event is two months long, with a core Convergence series, and several tie-ins. Each tie-in book is a two-issue story, one per month.

Each week of each month stars characters from a different era of DC's mainstream universe.


 * Books released on April 8th and May 6th star the Pre-Flashpoint (what we call "New Earth" versions of the mainstream universe, in Gotham City. Their opponents are the Flashpoint Timeline, Earth-8 (Extremists), Earth-18 (Justice Riders), and Earth-26 (Captain Carrot).
 * Books released on April 15th and May 13th star the Pre-Zero Hour (not to be confused with Pre-Zero Hour) versions of the characters, in Metropolis. As far as we are concerned, this is still New Earth versions of the characters, they just come from immediately before Zero Hour occurred (hence, "Pre-Zero Hour"). Their opponents are Earth-Six, Kingdom Come, and the Wildstorm Universe.
 * Books released on April 22nd, and May 20th star characters from before Crisis on Infinite Earths (Pre-Crisis). Their opponents are The Tangent Universe, Earth-AD/Earth 51, and Earth-43.
 * Books released on April 29th and May 27th star characters from... also Pre-Crisis??? Opponents are Earth-30, Earth-Four, Hex Timeline, Earth-19, Earth-Three, DC One Million, and maybe more???
 * New 52 characters appear to be confined to the main Convergence series.

So, despite week four getting kind of murky it's pretty straightforward who is appearing in which books.

Still, for the sake of clarity, we should go over how we should be standardizing appearance tags for each issue.

For all characters who have a New Earth page they should be tagged with New Earth, but, so that we can distinguish which era of New Earth we're talking about, we should indicate it like so:


 * Etc.
 * Etc.
 * Etc.
 * Etc.
 * Etc.
 * Etc.
 * Etc.
 * Etc.

Basically, you should tag characters who come from the mainstream universe to indicate the era of the mainstream universe they come from, but still link them to their appropriate page. If it's a version from a different multiversal iteration, you only need to indicate the universe.

Of course, you should only do this on Convergence titles.

As for the character pages - I suppose we might as well hash out how to handle that in this thread. 