Thread:Edkaufman/@comment-3406131-20140121224842/@comment-1458758-20140125055557

I don't think the Omega Alpha Beta system is just a 90s thing since Quentin Quire, Josh Foley, Hope Summers and Absolon Mercator were all made in the 2000s and the others, while made before, were not necessarily designated as such during that time as I think Rachel Summer's and David Haller's designation as such came before and have been used in more recent years. So disregarding it as a sort of 90s thing seems a bit harsh.

As for the Copy/Pasting of data, I do find that a certain issue, not just in personal data like Nicknames and such, and while I too am guilty of this, we actually tend to repeatedly put power segments as being "Seemingly those of their 616 counterpart" pretty much, where as if we're dealing with older sources, like say a cartoon or a What If? comic, if the mainstream has gained or lost certain powers, or their powers are being understood in another way (Eg. It used to be considered canon that Cyclops' eye beams were solar powered, now they're kinetic energy funneled from another dimension through a portal in his eyes) then saying this other version has the powers of the current mainstream counterpart may not always be accurate. Admittedly it's a pain in the butt to try and write out "They have such and such a power" A hundred times, but if we're only ever updating the main few universes, like 616 and 1610, a lot of other variants on characters whom we bothered our asses to make articles for, are actually going to be woefully inaccurate.

Not to mention names. We tend to generalize the names of characters in some places, even if their alternate version is never referred to as such, and we know they're not always named the same.