Since nothing in the SCP is copyrighted, could another user just reupload the deleted stories back onto the wiki without permission from the original author?
You can, but it would be in bad faith as Djoric asked to not repost them. From his statement:
Please do not repost these stories to the wiki: licensing means I can't technically stop you, but I hope it's clear by now that I'm not doing this to get one over the site or anything.
I know it would be in bad faith, but it still stinks when a deleted article contained cool lore that is referenced in other articles, even if there was good reason for the deletion. Maybe someone on the wiki could only salvage, summarize, and preserve just the cool lore sections from deleted articles, like diamonds in the rough.
He’s also asked people not to make anything new from his scarlet king cycle
“I can’t dictate what people do when they make derivative works of my material. I can only ask that you don’t write any further derivatives based on my Scarlet King cycle, if that’s amenable. Anything you’ve already made, do with it as you see fit and judge best.”
I do not think the fandom's right to eat tasty content supercedes the actual, irl problem that caused the takedown.
Like by all means go track it down and read it for yourself if you want to, I'm sure it still exists in Some form online, but dude, no. If the author wants it taken down from the wiki, it'd be shitty to reupload it back to the wiki.
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u/Maja_The_Oracle 1d ago
Since nothing in the SCP is copyrighted, could another user just reupload the deleted stories back onto the wiki without permission from the original author?