I realized today that we do not have a quick and dirty summary of common terminology anywhere on the site.
So, I did something about it. Please feel free to suggest terms that I may have missed!
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I like this. Its a good resource so people don't have to continuously explain the same concepts over and over.
+1
I feel we should add certain terms that are thrown around in the creation of an article, such as "hook", "draft", "magic item", etc.
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
"amenstic"
Fixed a broken link in "memetics".
Still, I can see this being extremely helpful. Thanks, Aelanna!
Edit: maybe add "Narrative"?
You don't fix those by making them absolute URLs. e.e Re-fixed it.
Edit: "Narrative" is such a broadly used term — and one that we don't apply any special meaning to — that I don't think it fits in here. If you are referring to the fact that newbies often forget to build a narrative into their SCP articles, then that is addressed in the pitfalls essay.
Oops, my apologies.
Yeah, I was thinking of that. I understand your explanation. :)
This is something we've needed for a long time, and you have done an excellent job with it.
Good start, but needs more Kitchen Peppers.
if your reading this your gay
*Raises hand* Can we make this required reading?
Or at least strongly encouraged reading? This could be very useful for people just starting out on the site. I know I would have loved to have read through it when I first got here.
(account deleted)It has already been put on the Guide Hub as an essay, which is nifty.
In fact, a lot of guides in there might not be mandatory but, boy, are they helpful. People should refer to them more often.
The Guide Hub uses a module to automatically list all pages listed as an essay.
The reason that we only have one piece of required reading these days is that, well, the people who would benefit the most from reading them won't read them anyways. This is yet more of the same; you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
Explained — A sub-class of object that has either been debunked as a hoax, sufficiently understood so as to be normal scientific knowledge, or so widely disseminated that containment is no longer possible.
so widely disseminated that containment is no longer possible
That's not "explained," that's "uncontained."
I believe this particular bit of info was put in there because of scenarios such as the one seen on SCP-8900-EX, in which the Foundation has no option but to resort to the creation of a cover story in order to "explain" the anomaly to the general public or, in extreme cases like the one mentioned above, "ingrain" said explanation directly.
Not quite right. "Uncontained" means that its effects aren't contained, but we can still suppress information about it. "Explained", by the example of 8900-EX, includes ones where we literally cannot prevent all of humanity from being exposed to it, so we accept it as normal. This is why Explained articles are so fundamentally difficult to write; it's such a narrow space that it's hard to write something with a degree of plausibility.
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