CityToast

Toast was able to provide me with some background details that corroborate his story and photo logs of an early draft of the SCP, as such I'm convinced by his story and have attributed him as the author of 017.

I checked on the story and the facts seem to jive, the guy has goodreads pages for his books dating back to the aughts.

Lt Masipag

In addition, according to this, the original author of SCP-847 appears to be a user named "Xian."

Original author of 012 is being credited as ITIFAMCO, per above discussion.

Metadata updated accordingly.

So this next one I need some thoughts on: SCP-012's original posting was found and after reading the thread in question via bluesoul's archive I'm convinced it's genuine. That said, it's written by someone with a username we wouldn't allow here “I Think I Feel a Miscarriage Coming On." Thoughts on how to handle this one? Leave as is? Credit anyway? Credit but with the initials? Open to suggestions.

EDIT: http://scparchives.bluesoul.net/

edit: Gears talks about this in his KaktusKast interview at around the 33 minute mark. Among other things, he explicitly says it's not all his and that it was a team effort.

The thing about SCP back-then is that the nature of the site no matter its form lent itself to changes like the ones you're describing. When doing a lot of attribution for articles myself I came across a lot of stuff like this, and probably myself shouldn't have noted some of these attributions.

I think keeping it as-is is the best move, as Gears wrote most of it even if it was following off of another user's contributions… that was just the nature of the site then.

It's a bit more complicated than that re: 682 though, as it was originally posted by Gears, heavily expanded by phail, and iirc Gears did a bit more following that too to continue phail's work and make the piece overall more cohesive. I think just listing them as co-authors is probably the best way to represent the situation.

For 093, I always believed Ace to be the original author even with no hard proof, but if you wanna err on caution, then don't change the unknown author attribution.

In addition, The original author of 093 appears to be wikidot user TheUnlikelyAce according to this thread. This one isn't as certain, but they were apparently able to show rhett their original draft that matched the original posted version of 093 before NekoChris revamped it. Honestly I think there's an argument to be made that 093 should qualify as an original since Neko's 093 bares almost no resemblance whatsoever to Ace's version (which was just a magic mood ring) but with the current attribution placement it makes sense to replace unknown author with Ace.

Any objections to adding Epic Phail Spy as a coauthor of 682 and TheUnlikelyAce as the original author of 093?

Edit: further digging has found that 093 was originally posted to 4chan anonymously, so we can’t prove for certain it was or wasnt Ace.

Today, another group of redditors decided to look through the archive to try to find the original versions of a lot of the oldest SCPs, to find authorship of some of the unattributed works, and threads that seem to be pivotal in the foundation (no pun intended) of SCP. This thread is here.

There's already been a lot of good info found, most pertinently being that we now have solid attribution for SCP-011 and 109. Shaggy has already updated the metadata to credit the original author.