Untitled articles?

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Untitled articles?

Zyn 16 Nov 2018 08:37

This discussion was recently brought up on the mainsite: http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-8592678/naming-nameless-scps

Regarding SCP articles that were never titled, do we want to change their series list names to [UNTITLED] to differentiate them from unoccupied slots? Or some other policy?

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Re: Untitled articles?

MayD 16 Nov 2018 12:23

That's what we did for Kingpogan's articles earlier in the year, so I think that's fine.

Re: Untitled articles?

Jacob Conwell 16 Nov 2018 21:04

Turning them into [UNTITLED] should be fine, yeah.

Re: Untitled articles?

SoullessSingularity 17 Nov 2018 02:05

Can this be written down somewhere so people don't forget? We can put it quickly in the guide directory for reference.

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Re: Untitled articles?

Zyn 12 Dec 2018 09:11

Poking this since someone mentioned an article today with the placeholder title.

Are we good with this? Are there any currently created and successful but unnamed SCPs?

Re: Untitled articles?

Reverend Fox 27 Dec 2018 20:44

I'd be fine with this. There are a few ‘successful’ unnamed articles floating around. By ‘successful’, I mean not fallen into deletion range yet.

I'll do some research on this over the next few days and ETA to this post regarding my findings on Sunday when I clear out names of deleted articles on the mainlist.

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ETA: As promised, here's my research.

Series 5
Link	Rating1
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4026	-7
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4072	-18
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4086	-12
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4270	-15
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4298	-12
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4315	+25

Series 4
Link	Rating2
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3482	-12
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3854	-15

Research entertainment provided by: Gunslinger's Glory by The Dead South.

So, it seems the overwhelming trend of [ACCESS DENIED] articles is that they're coldposts, for one. Secondly, of all the links I've found in just Series 5 and 4, only one is successful.

Conclusion — I don't think it's worth our time to name the [ACCESS DENIED] articles. An [UNTITLED] should work perfectly.

Footnotes

1. At time of discovery — 2145 PST.

2. At time of discovery — 2145 PST.

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