I think we need to stop including post Infinite Crisis retcons in this section. After Infinite Crisis, a lot was reverted to match Silver and Bronze Age ideas (its a synthesis of Pre Crisis and Post Crisis ideas.) But the differences are big enough at this point that we should be marking the Post Crisis era as taking place from 1986 to 2005.
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I tend to agree, although I'd tend to place the breakpoint a little bit earlier, in 2003. The "Futuresmiths" storyline in Superman essentially wiped out John Byrne's "Man of Steel" origin story, paving the way for the likes of Mark Waid's "Birthright" to replace it; and Geoff Johns' "Teen Titans" rewrote the human/Kryptonian hybrid Superboy's origin in a way that conflicted with the details of the Death and Return of Superman story arc. Both the Kryptonian Supergirl and Mark Waid's Legion of Superheroes "threeboot" were also introduced between 2003 and 2005, as was Jason Todd's return from death. By the time Infinite Crisis came along, the undoing of most of the Post Crisis changes was well under way; Infinite Crisis basically formalized what was already happening. I'd recommend removing references to anything after 2002 from this page, and perhaps starting a "Pre-Flashpoint" page to describe the changes that have occurred from 2003 to mid-2011. The advantage of this notation is that, like the line between Dark Age and Modern Age, the line between Post-Crisis and Pre-Flashpoint is blurry at best.
Does anyone know why, after retconning so much, they insisted on leaving it so most of what happened in old comics "Still happened"? All it seemed to accomplish was making the new retcons leave holes they wouldn't otherwise have needed to leave. Was it just really hard (or they weren't prepared) to completely restart every DC title?
Re declined cut request: Not sure that this description is so useless as to merit cutting.
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