In response to the list, I think what you are proposing would be a nice addition to the writing style section, but I’m not sure if there is enough coverage to create the category based description. However, it lacks coverage in secondary sources and is getting into too much detail for what should be a more general overview of the series. In regards to thaumial, it is an officially recognized esoteric class by the SCP Foundation wiki. In regards to the Apollyon class, there is really no need to list every single non-standard classification that occurs throughout the series.

Wuzh ( talk) 02:21, 25 March 2016 (UTC) I’ve removed the information about Apollyon, as well as thaumial class SCiPs. This is because A: just having a bunch of examples there is very much a bait for random editors to add in random examples, and B: it is quite possible that in the far future, when there are enough sources, the section will just go out of control and into a big list of in-universe stuff, which Wikipedia doesn't want (I'm sure there is a wikipedia rule page for it somewhere, can't find it though)Īlso, I don't think SCP-2317's apollyon classification is covered on the source immediately after it. I'm thinking that we can restructure the example of SCPs into something more useful, such as a section describing the style of the articles with specific example SCPs being used to demonstrate them (basically just folded into the Writing style section), like 426 being used to demonstrate the commonly found 'Meta' article style, or 087 being used to demonstrate an example of a Euclid class anomaly. All of the entries in the Heritage Collection are from generation I, while a good listing of SCPs would contain listings from all three generations. The SCP listing is meant in part to illustrate the wide variety of SCPs on the website. Also, I'm hesitant to limit entries on the list solely to the Heritage Collection. There are only a small number of SCPs that have gotten enough coverage to get an entry, so I'm not too worried about the lists size so long as we make sure to regularly prune entries that have not gotten coverage in reliable sources. Wuzh ( talk) 02:12, (UTC) I added a hidden message asking that any contributions be sourced to a reliable source independent of the SCP Foundation, and stating that any entry that fails this requirement may be removed. And even then, we shouldn't add all of them, just the 'most' most notable ones. I am suggesting that we should reduce it to just the most notable ones, and by that I mean the ones on the Heritage Collection.

I am a bit worried that people will just add more and more examples to that section and cause its size to completely go out of hand.

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