SCP-XXXX

SCP-XXXX - "Example", written by DesertMoonGW and posted on January 17th, 2019, is an example article written to give format and perspective on how to write articles for SCP's on the SCP Meta Wiki. This opening paragraph should be a laconic description of the SCP, describing it in its entirety in only one, MAYBE two paragraphs. A very good resource for this is SCP Explained, which already does this by writing very short laconic descriptions for many popular SCP's. If you decide to use this, make sure to use a Reference to link to the page you got the text from, title the reference "SCP-XXXX Explained" with the link embedded.

## Story

This is where you describe all collective information on the SCP in universe. Generally speaking you should try to keep this in chronological order of events. If you make any claims that are directly stated in the source article, there's no real need to add a Reference showing where you got the information. If you got the information from anywhere besides the original SCP article, even if it's a test or exploration log linked directly in the article, you should place a Reference. If your SCP is not the focus of the Reference or the piece of information is something very minor from the Reference, include italicized text that is copy pasted from it to show where exactly the information came from. See this Reference for an example. References are very important, and not including one could mean the information being removed by another editor, as we don't know if that is true or if you're just making things up.

The actual meat of this part of your article contains collective information. All of this information should be gathered from the Wiki, nothing off-site is ever to be included as this is so far from any sort of canon that it is unacceptable to include. There is no canon, but even so, try to add things together. If there's contradictory information, say so when it becomes relevant. These are good places to find information in regards to the story:

1. The Source Article, the one titled "SCP-XXXX" (duh).
2. Any articles linked in the Source Article. Typically Experiment Logs, Discovery Logs, Exploration Logs, etc.
3. Go to the bottom of the source article, click "+ Options", and click Backlinks. A lot of things here are in universe and can be added as information.
4. The tales attached to the SCP, these can be found on each main lists Tales equivalent (Series I, Series II, Series III, Series IV). This is where the bulk of unknown information will come from.
5. Search the site, sometimes Backlinks and Series Tales miss things. I'd recommend using Google though instead of the built in "Search this site" as it has a tendency of breaking easy. Just use site:http://www.scp-wiki.net "XXXX" when searching so everything will be from the site and have something to do with the SCP (or that number)

Primary points that should be touched on and included in the article is anything that was redacted in the original, how the SCP was acquired by the foundation and everything they did before, and anything they did involving the greater SCP verse.

### In Foundation Custody

If there is substantial information of the SCP prior to being recovered, this is where you would include information that comes after. If that is the case, most information from the source article will end up here.

### Containment Area

Primarily its physical containment cell and surroundings. Procedures, such as things staff need to do, would go in the above area, this is for the literal physical room its kept in or just where it's kept in general.

### Testing

Typically, testing doesn't take place at any real point in a story and is just nebulously while it's in containment, so just shuffling it to the bottom is fine unless the test somehow directly connects to some greater information.

## Appearance

Exactly what it says on the tin, what does the SCP look like? The source article comes in big here as well as any photos of the SCP. Try to avoid any information that is just generally accepted fanon and only information that is mentioned somewhere.

## Significance

How it relates to the greater world of the SCP Universe and other SCP's. This is how it affects things beyond itself. If it caused something that changed something else, that's what would be here. This is where a good chunk of Tales information would go.

### Documents

Any in-universe documents the foundation has specifically regarding this SCP. Not anything that mentions this, ones specifically about this. To clarify, this is not Wiki pages, this is any form of documentation that is stated to exist in the SCP Database in universe, not necessarily ones that can be accessed.

### Relation to Other SCPs

* **SCP-XXXX** - Information regarding other SCPs that this somehow relates to.

## History

Out of universe, meta information. There's a lot of places you can go for this, try to include as much as you can concerning previous version or exterior information. Good places to check are:

1. The Source Articles History, check each revision.
2. The Source Articles Files, might find some interesting images or sound files in there.
3. The Source Articles Discussion, typically has the author discussing things with readers or people mentioning things that may not be obvious.

## References

1. ↑ SCP-XXXX Explained
2. ↑ How To Write An SCP - *"...posting a crappy SCP to 'get the bad luck out' does nothing except clutter the site up with crap."*