SCPs/Deleted

Deleted SCPs are SCP articles which were removed from all official SCP lists on the SCP Wiki.

Most of the time, this is because the SCPs received enough downvotes from the wiki's users; and per site policy, all articles with a sufficiently negative rating score are either subject to a rewrite (by the page's own author or someone else), or else they will be deleted outright. It is a common occurrence for newly created SCPs to receive such a fate, especially if they are deemed to be of low quality by the community.

Less commonly, SCPs are deleted upon their own authors' requests. Typically, this results from internal conflict and drama within the SCP Wiki's community, which may lead to some users asking to have their SCPs, Tales, and other works deleted as an angry statement of protest. These actions have resulted in dozens or more SCPs which had been listed on the Wiki for years to suddenly disappear.

Some deleted SCPs have somehow been archived and preserved; the SCP Wiki itself has kept a couple lists of a small minority of these archived SCPs. A few other Wikidot sites maintain their own archives of deleted or outdated SCPs. The may still have even more deleted SCPs.