I am staunchly against adopting any rules for summary deletion of any content like this or that operates in this vein. We have an an anti-harassment policy which constitutes defense for anything "I" would care about defending at this level.

This has nothing at all to do with whether or not I would do something like this, or whether or not I would respect/appreciation/enjoy anything like this. It shouldn't have anything to do with your sense of humor either.

The article in question has not broken any rules that the SCP Wiki enforces that would warrant the removal of the article, or warrent officalized disciplinary action. If we did penalize the articles or authors in spite of this, it would go against author automity and would be corrupt of us to facilitate. I will never entertain the idea of punishment without evidence.

Furthermore, we can not punish an author for their hypothetical intentions. We do not punish people based on non facts or assumptions. With all this said, I do not forsee any way for us to officalize a set of rules surrounding these pages due to the vague nature of what we are trying to call "rule breaking behavior".

The outrage to these articles by users are not our responsibility and it is not our responsibility to change our rules to conform to their specific wants and desires. We have hundreds of thousands of people aware of this community and I have seen less than a handful of members actually upset about this article.

Now, to speak generally about vagueposting, I believe we should maintain what we do currently. When a page like this goes up we will assess it for wrongful content, and delete it if I breaks the rules. If it doesn't, that's where our responsibilities end. We should not need to revisit this convo next time an article make people upset, or the time after that.

Like, I'm sincerely convinced that if you showed this article to someone without providing any context, they would not even know it's related to these events. They would just see an absurd article about a seal who is literally a great person to be around and can probably imagine multiple reasons of why, in-universe, Diaghilev was angry about receiving a photo of it (OK, maybe it's because I have a big imagination, but I'm sure I'm not the only one).

So, for me, not rule-breaking, we should let it be, let the community decide.

As for whether we should create rules about that… that's a difficult one because many of us have different perceptions of what is funny and what is just plain mean and I'm afraid it could become a bit of a mess, which is something that we don't need right now. I don't know, I'm not sure I have enough strong opinions one way or the other.

PlaguePJP

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