User:Hatebunny/Prime Earth Strategy


 * Compile a list of 2012 debuts.
 * These can be moved normally with my bot.


 * For all other characters, each admin must go through all of the issues of his pull for the New 52, and makes a list of characters who need new pages that didn't debut in 2012 - including 2011 character debuts, since not all of them will be New 52 characters. We can pick up each other's slack as we go.


 * We can compile the list(s) on some new page like "DC Database: Prime Earth Project" and protect the page so that normal users will keep their I-Told-You-Sos to their own pages, and we can keep a proper handle on things.


 * Once all of the information is prepared (we should probably work on the new pages in secret, and off-site (via text file), we can do it in one night (weekend?) and change everything in one fell swoop, so that it's near-immediate, and we don't have to deal with as much confusion.


 * All new pages should indicate that the events of flashpoint resulted in the creation of an alternate timeline in which New Earth became Prime Earth, and all characters histories were changed to varying degrees.


 * All of the pages should just be everything that's listed under the DCnU or Post Flashpoint heading from the New Earth page, plus an explanation of the universal shift.


 * Significant characters will require links to origin pages. Characters whose histories are virtually intact (albeit ludicrously compressed) like Batman, Alec Holland, and GLC should contain a link back to their New Earth page (preferably in-universe), to serve as explanation for history which remains canon, as far as we know.


 * Google optimized pages like Superman (Clark Kent) will have to be renamed as (New Earth) - which is fine, since all of their sub-pages are named like that. The new pages can then just take those page names back.


 * Since all of the pre-flashpoint books (that I'm aware of) ended conclusively (by that, I mean that their story arcs finished), there shouldn't be any loose ends on the New Earth pages to tie up.


 * Character pages like Batman and GLC, who have not changed much might include in the notes or at the end of the history section, a blurb about the DCnU, and how the character's history essentially continues on Prime Earth.