Encyclopedia of Bad Page & Author Stereotypes

'''DISCLAIMER: Yes, this is a joke page. No, it isn't meant to be taken seriously. Yes, you can still take some advice from this page when it is present. And yes, I'll be dropping names and throwing punches. No, it doesn't mean I'm serious about that... With a few exceptions where I'm totally serious. Take this page with a grain of salt.'''

You wake up one day. You go to check MIPS Hole. Oooh, a new page has been published! Let's see what it is... Oh. It's terrible. It's SO BAD. We've all been through this. So I've decided to make a list of everything that is reoccurring in these bad pages, and threw in some author stereotypes because the SCP wiki did that as well they're relevant. So, let's get to it! Or not. You know, with the way it's written, I think this page is breaking that rule of not writing in first-person. Oh well, I don't fear the law.

Chapter 1: Overview (Get it? Chapters because the title says encyclopedia- I'm gonna shut up now.)
First thing's first, the Community Canon and Rules & Guidelines. Follow these, or you're screwed. There are a few exceptions to most of the things there, but for the most part it's best to make sure you're following them. Forgot what's in them? Read them again! Or be like me and not do that. Yeah. That's a totally viable option if you want to be lazy. Again, like me.

This page is gonna go on for a while, and probably be really mean to half a dozen people, so if you don't like seeing other people have their limbs ripped off in a ritual sacrifice, maybe don't read this page. And also if you have a really low attention span and don't want to read this, you can do that too. Or if it isn't that long and I overestimated the length- I should have put this in the disclaimer.

What's an overview again?

Chapter 2.1: I guess I never said anything against sub-headings.
Okay, so let's start with the basics. There are pages that are overly short with nearly no information on what the actual thing the page is about. Some pages have been like that, but due to interesting concepts, they were rewritten, such as Rex. Not every short page can say that, though. A variety of pages that have had 0-3 sentences have been uploaded, and promptly deleted. For example, if you try and make a page and just link to somewhere else, that's stupid.

Chapter 2.2: Why You Need to Stop Making Hollow Horror Halls
I'm going to address this here, since it fits with the theme of bad pages and pages that get deleted. Hollow Horror Halls was originally written by our founder, Venturesonic, also known as Shigeru Miyamoto, but user Jefftastic promised to remake the page with him after his hack, His Personalized Copy / Warped Worlds is released. The old version got moved to a subpage of Ven's profile, and can be found here by the way, but that left red links in like a ton of pages. So, people have stepped up to the plate to make it before Jeff. Everyone has failed. No offense, but every single recreation of Hollow Horror Halls has been terrible. One time, someone linked to DIET MIPS, ALSO KNOWN AS THE SECRET SLIDE, WHICH CAN BE FOUND HERE BY THE WAY IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE CESSPIT OF FAILED IDEAS I MADE OR ARE JUST CURIOUS, INSTEAD OF EVEN TRYING. That's a new tier of dumb for this page's history.

Chapter 2.3: Examples of Authors of Bad Pages
Some authors try their best, like WarioFun and Megaty7, but fail most of the time simply due to not learning enough. They've tried their best, so they'll probably strike gold eventually... Or become a one-hit wonder directly after that and never make a good page again. But they're the exceptions. A lot of authors are terrible, and there are unfortunately a lot of examples.

I forgot who made the one terrible build page a month or 2 ago I think, but their excuse was that it was their first page and were helping to expand the wiki. If you have this mindset, you are an idiot. That's just how it is. You'd best take your pages to that one stupid wiki The quiot riot made for pages too bad to be on MIPS or diet MIPS for some reason despite the fact it's been dead for months. I don't have the link to that one.

Then there's the ones in the forums that are known as Fandom Kids in the Discord server. The more often you see someone in the forums that are near the bottom of a page, the more likely their pages will be bad if they have made any. Often times they will copy anything the exception says in the forums, like adding page ideas to profiles or posting literally every painting they've made (no offense), and suggest terrible joke page ideas that never see the light of day. There's one in particular named MadisonF 2991 that is the worst of the worst. They've made terrible pages, tried to remake one of their pages to be better, but failed miserably, and had a psychotic breakdown when I kept telling them "Amogus". They started flinging insults, swear words, even outside of the original thread. The fact that Ven joined in on the Amogus part made this scenario even better. Anyways, SigmaShield one time said they might have banned Madison for being a massive jerk, so take that as a threat if you're reading this, Madison. You're stupid.

And there's another scenario I want to go over here for an example of stereotypical authors. In the forums, Megaty7 posted an anti-piracy thing. That's all well and good, that trend sucks but alright, he made it alright. But upon closer inspection, it blatantly copied the anti-piracy legend known as Joey Perleoni. It had a standard anti-piracy screen at first, then a power-off refusal mode. That should seem familiar if you've seen the one Power Off Refusal video from Joey Perleoni. It gets better. They copied the 911-calling bit DOWN TO THE EXACT PHRASE MEANT TO BE SAID. For a Nintendo 64 game. Listen, it was already a stretch for the DS to call 911, but the Nintendo 64? Come on, dude. The thing is, when I called their bluff, THEY JUSTIFIED IT BY SAYING IT'S INSPIRATION. I hope you understand this isn't inspiration.

Anyways, we need more types of bad pages after this long section where I vented about the idiots behind most of the pages. Oh yeah, the less often people are inactive on the wiki at all, the more likely they don't know how to make proper pages. There's still some outliers, like GummyLeeches who likely will still yell at me that my pages suck yet give no real advice on how to fix the "bad pages" like a moron if I unblock them on Discord, but they're still an exception since they make decent pages. That was a tangent. Okay, now some more actual bad pages.

Chapter 2.4: Some More Actual Bad Pages
First off, some pages such as Super Mario World Beta (REWRITE) have something in the title you may notice. That it says it's rewritten in the title, implying the original got deleted. Don't do that, we know it's a rewritten version, and it proves fairly well the page bad. The example page is actually written fairly well actually, but it's still using a point I want to bring up.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: The page has been moved to one that doesn't have the word "(REWRITE)" in the title. I hope you understand.)

Next up, what are the pages that are the most likely to be bad? Builds and levels. Builds are fairly obvious, because we can't just keep making them. We can't. We've gotten all the real builds now. There are a ton of dumb builds that have been made, such as the 2010 Build which is literally a rewrite of a bad creepypasta. I don't know what else to say at this point on the topic of builds. Now, levels. There are a few many points here. Missions. Don't use them for anomalous levels. Don't. They will not be consistent in personalized copies. Actually, secondly, consistency is a bad thing. Everything won't be the same in every copy. So yeah, key words like "usually" and "commonly" are good when describing stuff. Third, believability. Don't make stuff up that's too out there. There's a deleted page with some examples in the deletion reason, with the page being Fire Bomb River if I'm remembering correctly, but most of them are outdated. Green coins? Coin Discoloring. Magma Thwomps or something along those lines? Enemy Discoloring. You get the idea, though the reasons are outdated, so there are scapegoats for you to use.

Joke pages are more likely to be deleted simply due to not being funny. There's a lot of potential examples, but I can't just link to deleted articles. A good example though is Bowser's Casino (Joke). I wasn't able to read it since it got deleted too fast, but it used the joke page template in an attempt to get around the quality assurance. Bad idea. BAD. IDEA.

One example of a deleted page for another reason is Prickly Plains, based off a Bowser's Domain painting. It got deleted by request of the painting creator. Try not to do anything like that. I can't think of other exceptions, actually.

That's all I can come up with right now, add to this page if you want to add more stereotypes. Don't be mad that I called you out, it usually isn't serious except for Madison's case because they were totally in the wrong for that. If you try and grief the page due to being called out or being mad your pages were called bad, shut up. Don't. Bad idea. You'll more than likely get blocked and never get the opportunity to make pages again.

Chapter 2.5: A
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Chapter 2.6: The Replacement Narrator
So it looks like the previous narrator screamed so much he passed out. Must have seen a really bad page. Seriously, what did you guys do to make THAT happen to him?

(Bad ending/good enfindg neural enidkg) Oh. OH. WHYYYY (I'm about to nominate that as a potential Ztar Article on the Ztar Article thread)

The page was just a few sentences as well. Did you EVEN TRY?! Seriously. Why. WHY!! It's so short it couldn’t even get Ztar'd! No wonder the old guy passed out!

Chapter 2.7: Back to Bad Pages
Anyways, picking up where the old guy left off, another commonly bad thing is floors. Even though the Community Canon says not to add new floors, people keep adding new floors. TWICE, someone has added a fifth floor, and at one point there was even a SEVENTH FLOOR! (Yes, there was also a sixth. It was deleted before the seventh was made!) There's also a Castle Attic page, which is basically a THIRD attempt at a fifth floor! (To be fair, they also called it an attic, likely to prevent someone from extending above it.)

Look. Only so many floors can fit in the game's memory. A floor that spawns in as a SEVENTH FLOOR would result in too many courses for the cartridge to hold. The AI can't make infinite floors in a single copy.

This trend happened so much that it actually got 2 joke pages making fun of the concept!

Now, there are some better ideas for floors, like Unidentified Floors and Minor Anomalous Floors, but notice they are not numbered floors, but smaller areas that exist independently of other anomalous floors.

Chapter 2.8: Among
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Chapter 2.9: Sus
Now, looking at reports, I have seen a lot of reports that are so suspicious it's hilarious that they thought anyone whatsoever would actually believe the reports!

So fake they look like they were made for the old version of Secret Slide back when it was Big Chungus Hole. It’s hard to take them seriously even if you try, which is bad because that breaks suspension of disbelief.

Anyways, first things first. This is not a creepypasta wiki. If the report you're about to post is written the way a creepypasta would be written, then don't post it. It's fake, and we're all going to know that it's fake, so what's the point? (Yes, this is a work of fiction, but it should at least be possible to suspend your disbelief.)

The AI is not going to place the player in an empty room, then have a baby penguin appear and say "All the players dropped us into this ravine. Join us, Mario. Be free, along with us. In heaven." and then have the N64 turn itself off.

It's not going to have a Chain Chomp eat Mario and set the console on fire , then crash the game with hyper realistic eyes followed by destroying the game and the console. (Yes, those were two actual reports. They haven’t even been deleted from the wiki. Those two reports are hurting the credibility of MIPS Hole. When I give the old narrator a 1-up I’m telling so he can respond and add it to Chapter 2.3 or a new chapter for “Even more Bad Authors” because I think both reports were made by the same guy. Seriously, whoever you are, MIPS Hole lost some credibility because of you. I mean, come on, that Chain Chomp one was so badly sus that it resulted in the entire page [not just that one report!] getting dubitated.)

The AI personalizes the game to try and fit the players’ desires, but can also experiment on the player to gather more information so that it can better personalize the game. This experimentation phase is responsible for the majority of “negative” anomalies-Anomalies that give the player bad experiences. A few, like the Wario Apparition, are exceptions, but note even those don’t involve intentional creepiness, actual blood, or anything that actually affects the real world.

I also found another report that claims the White-Eyed Chomp was found on emulator. And more personalization after that. Even though the AI does not work on emulators. (No, the page was not meant for the Emulation side canon, side canons didn’t exist at the time.)

Do your research. Actually check reports for anything sus before you post them.

Yes, the reports are fake. That doesn’t excuse lazy writing. Write them as a believable report. Found a strange glitch? Maybe you can write it as if it were the AI. But don’t write reports as if you’re the protagonist of a creepypasta. Write reports as if you encountered the anomaly yourself. If you break canon too much, by having the AI too out of character, your report isn’t going to end up as a good one. You’re not the protagonist of a horror movie, you’re just some guy who noticed something strange while playing, and wanted to know what just happened.

Chapter 2.10: Notes on pages
(EDITORS NOTE: This is my first page, thank you for reading, give me feedback in the comment's below!!)

Yeah, That's exactly what not to do. As a rule of thumb, you don't want to write anything out of character on a page. The reason why is because it clutters the page, distracts from the tone, and is generally tacky. If there is a comment that you want to make about writing the page, or thank readers, write it in the comment section and imply or say that you are the author of the page. That way readers can know what you want to say and it doesn't clutter the page. However, there are some exceptions; such as pages belonging to certain other canons may have a notice about not editing them. This is a common mistake that new authors make.

Chapter 3: Half Life 3 confirmed
...Not really.

But anyways, if a page is deleted, then unless you have a good reason to recreate it again, do not recreate it. A good example of this is a page called "Bowser's Casino (Joke)". It was a page that kept getting created and it annoyed a lot of people.

One day, it got so bad, Jim, an admin on the wiki and the discord, had to create the page to stop people from making it.

So please, for the love of god, DO NOT RECREATE PAGES THAT HAVE BEEN DELETED AT LEAST 1000000000 TIMES. I, ON BEHALF OF EVERYONE ELSE, BEG OF YOU.

Chapter 4: Incomplete Pages
Listen up, you aren't in middle school, you can't get away with putting a couple of sentences down on a page then look at the teacher and tell them "This is what i have so far." and be 1 month past the due date. Now imagine if you were in the teacher's shoes. OK, now imagine if you were an admin on this wiki. Not fun Isn't it? If you are going to publish something on the wiki make sure that it is complete. Store your progress on Notepad, Word, or Google Docs and copy and paste it into your page then publish them. Since most incomplete pages are low quality I advise you to edit it as much as you can before you publish your page. And if you think the page is too short mark it as a stub with the template.

Leaving pages incomplete is a major rookie mistake, especially if it's a page that has been deleted over a thousand times. Most rookies that do this go on to post in the discussions and ask everyone to check out their new page. I know you probably want feedback or something and if that's the case you should talk to the people in Discord. The majority of prolific writers, moderators, and editors are active on the MIPS Hole Discord and we would be glad to check out your page to see if it is fine.

Chapter 4.5: Telling the Mods to Complete Your Page
REALLY? Don't get fussy over your incomplete page with one sentence or two getting deleted. Doing so is a sign of immaturity and aggravation and the moderators have every right to ban you for this reason. Remember, you were the one who made the page in the first place so it's all on you to finish it. If you aren't willing to make a complete page you are just being lazy.