Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-28926826-20171203205454/@comment-10502460-20171204093755

If SCP pages were allowed, this wiki would probably get flooded with SCP drafts that got voted into deletion on the SCP wiki. If SCP pages were allowed here, I would want at a minimum a rule against SCP wiki deletion refugee pages.

There's also the not insignificant issue of the gap in quality standards between SCP and Creepypasta Wiki. That's not to rag on Creeepypasta Wiki, our quality standards here work for us on this site, the SCP community's standards work for them on their site, but it could cause feedback confusion and conflict if SCP pages were allowed her, even if it was just SCP authors making copies of their successful SCP pages the way NoSleep authors often post their stories on Creepypasta wiki after uploading on Nosleep. I would expect that if an SCP page were uploaded her shortly after being uploaded on SCP, there would be vastly different feedback coming from members of this wiki who are also heavily active on SCP wiki vs those who only have a general sense of what SCP is if even. And I think a speak for a lot of members from both camps when I say I'd rather not have the Recent Activity page of this wiki be clogged up with conversations that go something like this:

"Awesome story bro.  Really creeped me out.  You have a natural talent for writing."

"Actually, this is a pretty bad SCP all things considered.  The upload of this on the SCP wiki is close to getting enough net downvotes to be deleted.  The author should read more Series 2-4 SCP pages to get a better idea of what makes a good SCP."

"Who cares??  This isn't the SCP wiki.  Some of us over here think it's good.  It's not our problem that some of you guys over on SCP basically have a second life on the site so that your quality expectations are so ridiculously strict that no one who hasn't taken a college-level writing course can reasonably expect to make pages that don't get downvoted into oblivion."

"Well, whatever you think of the SCP community, the point is you're giving misleading feedback to the author here when you speak without even having a proper understanding of what Keter is.  You're not being helpful to the author by giving feedback that will cause them to continue to upload substandard SCP pages on our site.  If you want to write a creepypast about a monster like this being studied in a lab, that's fine, but don't make it an SCP and don't get mad when people from SCP criticize it for not being SCP-like."

"Hey, just want to chime in here.  I'm not part of the SCP community and I also think this story is bad even as a creepypasta.  Maybe I would appreciate it more if I was active on SCP, but why can't we just have SCPs be on the SCP wiki and creepypastas be on this wiki?"

etc, etc.

If only SCPs that were considered classic and had some preexisting recognition outside of the SCP community were uploaded here, such as SCP-173 (the first SCP) and SCP-049 ("the Plague Doctor"), that would be one thing, but I wouldn't want this wiki opened up as just a second place for SCP writers to upload their SCP pages.