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We secure. We contain. We protect." "The Administrator", About the SCP Foundation "Mankind must not go back to hiding in fear. No one else will protect us; we must stand up for ourselves. While the rest of mankind dwell in the light, we must stand in the darkness to combat it, contain it, and shield it from the eyes of the public, so that others may live in a sane, normal world.We secure. We contain. We protect."

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Item #: SCP-4445

Object Class: Thaumiel

Special Containment Procedures: Security of this data has been compromised, rendering further secrecy counter-productive. In accordance with Information Security Protocol 008-C-1 ("Class C breach") and the decision of the O5 Council, our current orders are to allow all but the most sensitive data to remain freely available, on the premise that these data are ██████████ of ██████████ released from the Image Board 4chan and uploaded to a community-edited website (i.e. a "wiki"): here .

Description: SCP-4445 is the incomplete archives of the SCP Foundation, a secret, global organization which exists to study, catalogue, and contain SCP Objects: artifacts and "items which jeopardize normalcy". Instances of SCP Objects include humans with aberrant capabilities, creatures of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin, memetic agents, [DATA EXPUNGED], and objects and devices with properties not fully explained by current scientific understanding. All represent clear threats to human normalcy, human society, human sanity, human lives, or quite simply the Universe at large.

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The nature of SCP Objects requires that those who contain and study them must possess certain qualities: keen intelligence, a clinical outlook, and a willingness to do what needs to be done.

Note From Council member O5-██ On Foundation Ethics

In layman's terms, the SCP Foundation is a wiki that serves as a collection of reports, documents, and stories based around the idea of the eponymous international organization that contains supernatural items for research and the preservation of world order. These items and phenomena are referred to as SCPs, with each one given their own special containment procedures. Originated as "Creepypasta" on 4chan's /x/ (paranormal) board, and then moved to its own site. Think of it as The Men in Black: Cosmic Horror Story edition.

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"SCP" stands for "Special Containment Procedures" (with the backronym motto of "Secure, Contain, Protect") - which sums up both the goals and methods of the Foundation's supposed actions. Supplementary information includes short stories, profiles of "researchers" (authors), and an associated IRC chat room. Roleplay is strongly discouraged on the main site, to the extent of being a bannable offense, but does exist; the most notorious being a "fan-made" Gaia Online guild that was disliked for having much lower standards. To prevent any future fandom flame wars: the SCP Foundation website predated the TV series Warehouse 13, but not Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Now in French , Korean , Chinese , Thai , Japanese , Spanish and Polish !

Has a sister site, The Wanderer's Library, that focuses on the Serpent's Hand GOInote Group Of Interest and their headquarters.

Has some regularly updated Fan Works such as the spin-off game making rounds on Let's Plays.

For "classical" SCPs written before the Mass Edit, see The SCP Foundation Classic . There is also a set of articles that tells the IRL history of the formation and major events in the SCP Foundation wiki up to 2013, which can be found here. Some users from the site also maintain a Laconic Wiki called SCP Explained .

Note: Due to the ever-changing nature of the SCP Foundation site, some of the entries may no longer be entirely accurate.

Addendum 4445-01: SCP-4445 provides examples of tropes in these sub-pages: