I think a lot of these problems make more sense and are less of problems if you look at it through like a folklore or campfire story lense. Like how vampire stories need to make clear what kind of canon they’re using as their basis - like what powers vampires have in this story.
The SCP wiki is a collective writing project that uses a vague concept of the SCP as a prompt essentially. I wouldn’t want either an official canon to be established or for a removal of the base prompt of SCP. It’s collective story telling and that kind of “anarchy” as you call it is fun to me.
If the main problem here is that some canons are inherently less popular - I just really don’t know what to say to that. Thats just how life works. If this was the case because some group was using their power as super users to force their canon and suppress others then I could see that as an issue. But I don’t think that’s the case or not a significant one relative to your problem with the pseudo-canon as a whole.
I feel like this comes down to you wanting to have your cake and eat it too- wanting to write your own stuff but with the popularity that comes with the established familiarity and popularity of the SCP name. And I fully get that desire- I just don’t really see it as a problem to be solved.
Yes, I understand and even agree with the conclusions here. But what I’m disagreeing on is the premise itself- that the above described pseudo-canon is a problem.
I’m saying it is not a problem to be solved, or is unfortunately just a fact of life.
In marxism we see ideas as being influenced by reality, and those ideas then influence reality in turn which re-influences ideas and so on and so on. This process is happening constantly for all people for all ideas in a complex miasma of changing majorities and popularities and material conditions. In this way ideas change over time, become more widely adopted, lose popularity, etc.
What you are saying is that this process is a problem. And to that I just don’t know what to say other than - ya sorry, life sucks sometimes.
If these ideas were harming people or, as described in my prior comment, were being manipulated in favor of one group’s material conditions- then I could get on board with calling it a problem. But as I see it, this is just the way it is.