nearly every entry DIED during that mess of a series
Quite nicely sums up the overwhelming major problem of including Crisis in this project.
My essential fan persona loves knowing all about Crisis and my brain was pre-conditioned by years of comics reading to shoe-horn any retcon into DC continuity so this is a hard decision. Ultimately this is a question of matters beyond general questions of continuity and comics history. It is a question of art, of taste, and of (dare I say it) integrity. Most of the people on this board, those people who are fans more of the pre-Crisis Superman stories and of what they represent in terms of quality and even morality, would agree that the propaganda purposes of this project preclude any reference to Crisis. It could be considered a form of controlled censorship, I suppose, but it really is judicious editing.
That being said, I'm a fan of the actual Crisis series and as a teenager devoured it whole cloth. Ironically the story is a fantastic homage to all the aspects of DC continuity which I love: the multiple Earths, the variations on the Superman origin myth, obscure characters, high melodrama. Only in retrospect did I realize what we had lost with Crisis and what we are trying to regain with projects like the encyclopedia.
As a side note, an interesting article in Wired magazine this month about the Wikipedia folks leads me to believe that Supermanica will eventually be contained within a vast web of interactive encyclopedia projects and our various continuity issues will be rendered moot through hyperlinks.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/wiki.html