User blog comment:Nausiated/The New 52 & How Things *Could* be organized -- A suggestion/@comment-3361105-20110917053922

The difference between us and the marvel thing is that these are not alternate versions of the characters, they are the SAME characters, but with certain things changed.

Frankly, 90% of people who know who superman is DON'T know diddly about any crises or events that have happened in the DC Universe. Designating a character who, despite a few changes to his history, is essentially the same character as being "post-crisis" or "pre-zero hour" would be, for the most part, hugely redundant.

Simply because something is no longer cannon does not require that it be removed from a character page, or moved to another. If it was a major event, it should appear on the page with a proper heading, and if it is properly sourced, the issue in which the event occurred will be noted. As you may have seen that we are already doing, Character pages are being updated to include infoboxes regarding the relaunch, and continuity changes are being listed on the DCnU page. Technically, post-flashpoint events are still occurring on New Earth, because it is only the timeline that's changed. This is also true of Zero Hour.

There are always these warring factions among comic book fans. The ones who are obsessed with details and the ones who are more interested in the stories and continuity. As a wiki, we walk a fine line between these two. We have to have a balance between a huge compendium full of redundant information for the sake of having that information, and having a content rich, but uncluttered source for information that will be attractive to comic fans without overwhelming them with miscellany.

For one thing, it would KILL our google results (which are not doing so well anyway) to have so many pages for single characters (who are, as I said, essentially the same). For another, the character pages are meant to show the changes in the character over time. The Jay Garrick of Earth-Two is the same Jay Garrick on New Earth in universe. The two earth's were merged, and they are one and the same. Their personalities may differ, but they are still the same person.