User blog comment:Pawn of Atlas/Important Discussion for Rapture Storyline page/@comment-1500935-20140403184252/@comment-1500935-20140404173906

It is sensible, and honestly I would have preferred a better solution. This one is the only one I could think of that would keep us from rejecting a whole game and lots of story background on Rapture for some contradictions, not mentioning re-writing a shitload of pages on the wiki. Also if you were not aware of that fact, editors on the wiki were already playing on words after the release of Bio2, when considering Suchong's death to be before New Year's Eve when Bio1 hinted the contrary. It was unfortunately an arbitrary choice on our part.

Burial at Sea happens after BioShock Infinite, but only from the point of view of Elizabeth. From Rapture's perspective, the second happens before the first arrival of Liz in 1960. It also means that from that perspective, Noir Liz will always arrive in Rapture before Infinite Liz. Quoting the Luteces (even if I'm not fond of doing so): "Lived, lives, will live." Also the aim of that storyline pages is mostly to detail the timeline one, since the latter doesn't have enough dates to do so. It probably started as a detailed story from the first game but then we added anything relevant to Rapture so it's pretty much more a storyline of the city rather than the series.