Talk:Puppet Planetoid

Here's another one I'm never sure how to handle. The Puppet Planetoid was used twice Pre-Crisis in "throwaway" appearances, and then showed up decades later Post-Crisis as the place Blok was killed (immediately preceding the Mordruverse story). In the Glorithverse, the only part that might have changed could have been the Satan Girl thing but we never read anything specifically about how that was rebooted for the Glorithverse. So we've got one location that exists essentially unchanged across three eras. I assume I don't need a /Post-Crisis modifier, but can this entry go in three different categories of Pre-Crisis planets, Post-Crisis planets, and Glorithverse planets? -- Omnicom 17:31, 25 July 2007 (PDT)

This is true of basically every Pre-Zero Hour entry, with the exception of the Kryptonians, Mon-El and a very few other items. Most Pre-Crisis, Post-Crisis and Glorithverse entries, once created, would basically have identical information. There are very few items for which we have actually gotten to the point of creating three or even two of the entries yet, but in a couple of instances, we simply created the Pre-Crisis one and then redirected the Post-Crisis entry to the Pre-Crisis page. If you look at the Dawnstar/Pre-Crisis page, it is categorized as Pre, Post and Glorithverse. Legion Constitution/Pre-Crisis also has the Post category.

Insistence on this "over-erafication" is one of Lightning Lad's sacred cows, and I don't think its likely to be changed anytime soon. As you have probably noticed, he and Reboot are much more focused on the Post-Zero Hour material, where making a distinction from other eras makes complete sense. Since neither of them ever work on Pre/Post/Glorithverse pages, they don't really "feel" the absurdity of making the distinction. I would just create the Pre-Crisis version and add all appropriate categories. If you like, create Post and Glorithverse pages which forward to the Pre-Crisis page, but its simpler to just omit them. -- Gopher 04:00, 26 July 2007 (PDT)