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 SCP Foundation with 9,800+ objects and 6,300+ tales demonstrates that protocol-distributed authorship (standardized format + peer review + voting) produces coherent worldbuilding at massive scale without centralized editorial authority. The emergent canonical clusters form organically through community consensus rather than top-down coordination. This confirms that worldbuilding can scale through structural constraints rather than editorial control, though it does NOT produce linear narrative (which requires concentrated authority per the tradeoff claim).
 
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+### Additional Evidence (extend)
+*Source: [[2025-11-01-scp-wiki-governance-collaborative-worldbuilding-scale]] | Added: 2026-03-18*
+
+SCP Foundation demonstrates that worldbuilding can be DECENTRALIZED infrastructure — the 'no official canon' model creates 'a conglomerate of intersecting canons, each with its own internal coherence' where contributors create canon clusters (shared locations/characters/plots) without requiring canonical hierarchy. This is worldbuilding as protocol rather than worldbuilding as authored artifact. The coordination happens through format standardization and community voting, not through centralized narrative authority.
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 Relevant Notes:

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 ## Content
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 PRIMARY CONNECTION: [[narratives are infrastructure not just communication because they coordinate action at civilizational scale]]
 WHY ARCHIVED: SCP is the most important case study for the governance spectrum claim (Session 6). 18 years of protocol-governed collaborative worldbuilding at massive scale — the existence proof that distributed authorship can produce coherent output at scale if the scope is worldbuilding (not linear narrative).
 EXTRACTION HINT: Extract the "narrative protocol" framework as a claim — the six structural features (fixed format, open IP, scalable contributions, passive theme, thin curation, organizational center) are a transferable model. Also: the staff/creative authority distinction is critical — infrastructure staff ≠ creative gatekeepers.
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+
+## Key Facts
+- SCP Foundation has 9,800+ SCP objects as of late 2025
+- SCP Foundation has 6,300+ Tales as of late 2025
+- SCP Foundation operates in 16 language branches (English original + 15 others)
+- SCP Foundation uses CC BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike) license
+- American Journalism Review called SCP Foundation potentially the largest collaborative writing project in human history in 2022
+- SCP Foundation was founded in 2008, originated on 4chan /x/ board in 2007
+- First SCP article was SCP-173, written by anonymous user
+- Greenlight Policy requires 2 experienced reviewer approvals before drafting
+- Greenlighters need 3+ successful articles or roster membership
+- Community voting threshold: -10 triggers deletion review, -20 enables immediate deletion
+- Staff deletion requires 3 staff votes + 24-hour timer