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Honestly, I've never seen much problem with removing an entry from Friends/Enemies lists that seem rather suspect and has no description. Whoever added it in the first place should've filled in the description if it's not something obvious. It's nothing but useless clutter otherwise. There's too many junk associations on some of these lists. People will set two characters as friends if they were in the same room together that one time in that one issue. Without descriptions, it's hard to sort through that and friendships that are obscure but actually valid/substantial.

So I say if you see an entry that's suspect when you're working on a character's Friends/Enemies lists... investigate it (check if they share any appearances or see if maybe the description didn't get mirrored) and get rid of it if you come up empty-handed. If there's any actually substance to it, it'll find its way back onto the list. Hopefully with some kind of explanation. That seems like the only way these lists will ever get cleaned up.

Thanks again, everyone.

Hey, thanks everyone. And thanks especially to Aiden Cross, The Umbra Sorcerer and The Dark Huntress for apparently all nominating me. It's very cool of you guys.

Pretty much said it all here, folk. Especially on how much of their continuity stuck.  

First good impressions... Booster's new costume doesn't look as bad as I originally thought. I still think it's a case of "changing for the sake of changing" and not as good as his previous one, but I think I can get used to it. Also, Gavril! I was really worried he wasn't going to be the Rocket Red here, so that's a relief. I wish his armor looked more like armor and less like spandex, though. 
 
First worrying impressions... I'm getting the impression here that all of the JLI's history has been wiped and this is the first JLI. That's a pretty big deal. That kind of throws off my understanding of almost all of these characters. A lot of readers are going to be coming to this directly from Generation Lost, so the clean slate approach wouldn't be the smartest move.

I'll say Bob Harras. Usually when people reference his run, they're just cursing those damned team jackets. But I really liked what that run had going on. The Brethren, Operation: Galactic Storm: the Gatherers. There was a nice variety of big threats, but the whole run was also grounded really well in what was going on in the lives of the characters with the Sersi/Black Knight/Crystal/Quicksilver love... trapezoid and other things. I liked that it had an unconventional Avengers lineup too without it not feeling like the Avengers still. There was also a sense of professionalism to how Harras wrote the team. It wasn't just big battles and drama. You regularly saw them doing the grunt work of organizing, investigating and sorting out tactics. He covered all the bases and made the team seem very three dimensional. ...Note: I didn't read it all the way into the Crossing, so I don't count anything about it in what I'm saying. I stopped reading shortly after Black Knight and Sersi left. 
 
And you know what? I'll say Brian Michael Bendis too. I may not be down with every little thing he's done, but I generally have really enjoyed what he's done with the Avengers. He puts a lot of focus on the characters, which I like. Okay, not all of the characters. He does tend to focus on a few at a time, but honestly, that's more than I've seen a lot of other writers do with team books. I like how he has elevated Luke Cage and Spider-Woman. He brought Mockingbird back and made me care that he did. The character arc he did with Ares was awesome. I'm probably more invested and interested in his Avengers run than I have been about any other writer's Avengers run in the past.

For the most part, this really doesn't seem any different from what we already deal with when it comes to Pre- and Post-Crisis. Several DC characters already have their Pre-Crisis and Post Crisis origins coexisting under their Origin header using the H3 tag to identify them. If they have a new Flashpoint origin too, just add it in there with another H3 tag. Evolution sections are already generally broken up by either Pre/Post Crisis or Golden/Silver/Modern Age or whatever else, describing generally what those incarnations were like. Again, just add a Flashpoint one in there. 
 
Okay, Major Story Arcs could get a little complicated since many of us use that to lay out character histories in more detail. But I would say leave them as they are and keep adding story arcs. Just when you add the character's first post-Flashpoint story arc, mention how the character's or team's history got rewritten by Flashpoint so people can see when they are reading through that's where the new continuity started and leave what major changes happened to the history to be explained up in the Evolution part of the page.
 
Oh, it's still going to get messy in some cases. But I think it would be less messy than trying to cram all the DCnU stuff off under its own header separate from everything else.

Wow, you not down with Jenkins?

Good to see DC is having a writer write one of their books instead of an artist in at least this case. On the other hand, it's Paul Jenkins. So I still probably won't read it. I guess it's just a babystep in the right direction. Now if only DC could stop chasing off writers like Brian Wood...

I'm okay with spinoff teams having their own separate pages, because they are separate teams. They exist and operate generally at the same time as the main teams do. I think there should be more separation actually. It always bugs me seeing stuff like a member of a spinoff team being listed also as a member of the main team even though they were never actually a member. I don't know what current examples there are of this, but I've seen it happen a lot with Avengers the past few years.