User blog comment:Hatebunny/The DCnU, and why we have not made new pages/@comment-1346478-20120628164147/@comment-3361105-20120628164947

It's a new timeline - but, if you've ever seen Back to the Future II, you know that someone changing the timeline can cause things to turn out VERY differently. Pandora guided Flash in creating a new timeline (instead of recreating the old timeline) - which means that there are significant differences between the old timeline and the new one.

While we at the Database had assumed that this only meant "it's a new timeline, but it's the same universe" - DC is obviously NOT thinking of it that way (which annoys us, because we're right and they're wrong). However, we have to work with what they give us.

So, for the time being, it makes the most sense to say "it's a new timeline" but that somehow, changing the timeline has also made it an entirely new Multiverse (such that the Earth 2 we're seeing now isn't the same as Earth-2 or Earth-Two).

The database staff aren't unanimously convinced that there needs to be new character pages yet, but since I wrote this blog post, I've decided that it's the best thing to do. So, we're working on convincing the other admins, and a strategy for making all of the necessary changes, because it will be a lot of work.