SCP-7173 / Discussion

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Co-Author Post

HarryBlank 22 May 2023 20:07

Pour one out for all my homies in the deletions announcements. You rushed in where I fear to tread.

Extra special thanks to my fabulous co-author, MrBadFellow, for a perfect flurry of nonsense-trading to excellent effect.

Much credit to our delightful critiquers for their time and timely aid: Grigori Karpin, GremlinGroup, LORDXVNV, Ralliston and Uncle Nicolini. Thanks to BitOddInnit for sharing an encouraging word at the last minute!

Our lovely page image was crafted by the brilliant, talented and cryptic stephlynch.

Also thanks to about twenty-three hundred people for not taking this awesome title before we got to it.

Last edited on 22 May 2023 20:28 by HarryBlank Show more

Re: Co-Author Post

MrBadFellow 23 May 2023 01:46

Hi all.

It is I, the collaborator.

I also want to thank Grigori Karpin, GremlinGroup, LORDXVNV, Ralliston and Uncle Nicolini for crit, and everyone else who offered kind and/or helpful words.

And also thanks to stephlynch for crafting for us an empty room, something which is shockingly hard to find.

I hope everyone enjoys this weird thing we gone and done!

Uncle Nicolini 22 May 2023 20:09

this rules, you guys. you did an awesome job on it and I wish you luck in the contest. hell yeah!

NielleiN 22 May 2023 20:11

Lol. Lmao even. Great job.

Last edited on 22 May 2023 20:11 by NielleiN Show more

GremlinGroup 22 May 2023 20:12

I really appreciate the spin this puts on the wiki's well-documented history of self-criticism. Rather than cannibalistic, this turns a warm, introspective eye to the building blocks of the wiki as a writing community. It helps that the comedy lands squarely, and that dialogue is such fun to read. The Germans, in particular, had fantastic lines.

LORDXVNV 22 May 2023 20:31

im dr stuff

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Last edited on 16 Jun 2023 14:10 by OriTiefling Show more

+1 (I wish I ran the WikiWalk Team)

Hesiod Delta 23 May 2023 01:30

A fascinating exploration of the wiki's history and recurring idiosyncracies of the wiki. Appropriately enough, I'm reminded of many other pages and makes me think of other suggestions:

+ Open Suggestions

• Starting with my most major issue: The article ending with the "moral of the story" is an amusing self-referential gag, but I feel like it derailed the narrative that it was referencing. It feels like research would continue, but I can't tell if it's a sequel hook or just a wham line. It doesn't help that the article's involvement in OG43 is of an unclear nature.
• Perhaps the disruption class could be made Gevurah like in SCP-6993, to emphasize the effects of the SCiP while also giving an early hint to the fact that this is about the Foundation's inner workings.
• The footnotes on "internal training materials 6183-I2 and 6183-I5 " should have links to the Guide for Newcomers and How to Write an SCP respectively.
• "belief in the existence of a "proposal" system for the SCP-001 database file" could have a link to McDoctorate's Proposal, though that ultimately depends on that the "proposal system" is in-universe, which isn't really explained.
• "The belief that D-class personnel are to be terminated at the end of every month." being the consequence of an anomaly is the central premise of SCP-2193. Perhaps a crosslink could be implemented into the footnote?
• In Footnote 7 ("D-Class personnel are in fact [REDACTED]"), a link to SCP-2959 could easily be embedded into that big fat [REDACTED], assuming you don't have other D-Class origins in mind.
• "Obviously there weren't twelve hundred containment breaches in 2021, those don't happen just because of weird page formatting or bad clinical tone." reminds me of SCP-3309. I'm not sure if there's any place for such a crosslink in the article, but I feel it's worth considering.
• Perhaps a footnote block could be added to the bottom of the page. Just make a numbered list with the text of the corresponding footnote copied onto each number, and fold it into a collapsible, similar to what ADMONITION does.

NotAnOligarch 23 May 2023 01:50

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Fires rage just below the surface of the ice.

HarryBlank 23 May 2023 01:52

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very clever

TheRabbitsofSkoeal 23 May 2023 07:01

very clever article. made me laugh at times. +1

Zertas 23 May 2023 22:47

My initial reaction was that I was glad 232 (and the author who created it) had made a return. My second reaction was a bit more reserved when I realized what the theme was actually going to be here. The whole satire of wiki tropes and cliches as an SCP has been done a fair number of times. However, when I compare this article with others of similar plot/focus, there is a very noticeable difference between how those have handled the progression of the wiki and how this handled it.

Now, I don't dislike those other articles, when they're good, they're funny. But they also have a very cynical, non-introspective view of how communities can evolve over time and how we, the ones living in the present, are at the end of the day not all that intrinsically different from the communities of 3 or hell even 5 years ago (well, that might not be totally true, but you get what I'm saying).

I really loved Dr. Fellow's tangent about the importance of ethnography and cultural relativism (I think I'm using the former term correctly, but I have the feeling I'm not), not only in the sense that I think it was really great on its own, but as someone about to go to college for social science it was just really… nice and affirming, I guess? Upvoting for the sense of reading something that I didn't know I needed to read.

Last edited on 23 May 2023 22:49 by Zertas Show more

PlaguePJP 26 May 2023 19:54

This is really, really good. Like really good. This is an article I'll be tossing at people to read for years to come.

Great job lads. An amazing contender.

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