Board Thread:New on Arrowverse Wiki/@comment-807326-20160206040643/@comment-26412696-20160313022407

TheSonofNeptune wrote: Hambergite, it's not a tougher call. You're a hypocrite if you say one show should be covered from the multiverse, and not another. Yes there are a multitude of multiverses, but not only does the Arrowverse, Supergirl, The 90's Flash show shared the same multiverse, but the DCEU shares it as well, which has been confirmed by Geoff Johns, and numerous other people. I linked to an article way above, that says that the DC Television shows in general share a multiverse.

That's what is so tricky about everything. I said it's a tougher call for a number of reasons, which I definitely should've explained in my last post, and I apologize for coming across as hypocritical. First and foremost, though, I feel it would be harder to convince fans to bring the 90s Flash onto the wiki than it would be for Supergirl; it's been enough of an uphill battle just pushing for a Supergirl merger when both shows have been confirmed for a crossover, and the 90s Flash was, as of right now, shown only as a sort of cameo or easter egg. We don't have any official confirmation from producers that the show exists in the same multiverse (as we do with Supergirl), and we don't even know if the Flash that we saw was actually the Flash from that universe or if he was from another universe entirely. He could have simply resembled the John Wesley Shipp Flash. There are simply too many variables at this point, and not enough information, and I'm not entirely sure that there ever will be.

Personally, I 100% support bringing both shows onboard, but only once we have official confirmation that it is indeed a part of the multiverse. We should take this one step at a time.

As far as the interview with Geoff Johns is concerned: I personally - and this is obviously my own opinion - do not feel that it is a valid source for the sake of this argument. A lot of the statements made in the article are outdated and contradict what has been said since then. Not only did Johns give the interview while Supergirl was still in development (Constantine hadn't even aired yet), but he refers to Supergirl as being a part of the same TV universe as Arrow, The Flash, and the rest of the shows under DC's umbrella. If anything, such a blanket statement would be cause to add Supergirl to the wiki, rather than exclude it. And while he does use the word 'multiverse', the only distinction that he draws through his statements containing it are that the TV and film universes are separate: "We have our TV universe and our film universe...." If we're really going to be basing the merger on what Geoff Johns said a year and a half ago, then we should be going through with it, since he makes it very clear that these shows are all a part of the same TV universe.

In regards to Supergirl specifically, though, the show is only mentioned three times in that entire interview, and two of those three times are in reference to the show's special effects. Again, I just don't feel that this interview is relevant anymore.