User blog comment:MakeShift/Discussion on post-Crisis changes to the wiki/@comment-15736398-20200118171516/@comment-15736398-20200119164228

"But if the post-Crisis pages would be the same as the pre-Crisis pages but with more info from new episodes, what would be the point of splitting?"

Because the post-Crisis characters are not the same people as the pre-Crisis characters even if they largely share the same histories.