Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-27558446-20160106154332/@comment-4715955-20160112214055

You're right, western lit is not creepypasta. Western lit authors actually proofread their work (bdum-tssh).

They're hosted here to give pasta authors easy access to many of the authors who are frequently recommended to them when they quickly prove they're writing in a genre they've never actually read. Whether or not you like the style is irrelevant: those works were written by people who knew what they were doing. If a wiki member has no idea that Dracula, Frankenstein, or The Call of Cthulhu aren't creepypastas, that only proves they didn't read enough of their chosen genre before trying their hand at it. They're titles any horror author ought to be familiar with. If they haven't already been identified on the wiki as the work of such-and-such author, the admins probably just haven't gotten around to it yet -- they get tons of submissions every single day, from authors who can barely read, let alone know what a Dracula is.

Seriously, why NOT host famous public domain horror works here? We already have tons of "how to write" articles on the wiki. Why not include actual examples from the masters? Because the comparison shows how terrible creepypasta authors actually are? I would think that would inspire them to try harder.