attribute-tagging-guide-en

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Attributes

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• If an entity is in fact a human being, then it should have the following tags by default unless they are overridden by some aspect of its anomalous properties: alive and sapient.

Objects

• Was it made by an intelligent creator?
  • Was it created as an artistic expression?
    • If the object is a three-dimensional representation, then it is a sculpture. If it is a full-body representation of a person, apply the humanoid tag. If it is a representation of an animal, apply the appropriate Animal tags, if any.
    • If the object is musical in nature, whether it is a musical composition or enables the creation or composition of music, then it is musical
    • If it is used for in an artistic performance, such as a dance or play, it should be tagged performance
    • If the object has decorative or functional designs written on, carved or cut into its surface, it is inscribed.
    • If the object has artistic significance but doesn't fall into any of the aforementioned categories, then it should be tagged as artistic.
  • Was it created to manipulate other things?
    • If the object was primarily intended to be used to kill, harm, or otherwise disable or impair another living thing (such as a gun or combat knife, but not a wood ax or swiss army knife), then it is probably a weapon.
    • If the object is hand-held and used for a specific purpose doesn't fall under weapon, then it is a tool.
  • Was it created to perform some kind of household, commercial, or industrial function?
    • If the object is used to perform calculation or data manipulation, it is a computer.
      • A computer should be further tagged as mechanical or electronic, as appropriate (see below).
    • If the object is a household appliance (defined as something that performs work that enables or improves quality of life in a home such as a television, microwave, or lamp), then it is an appliance.
    • If the object is primarily intended to transport passengers or cargo, it is a vehicle.
      • If the vehicle primarily flies or moves through water, then it should also be tagged as airborne or aquatic, as appropriate.
    • If the object is primarily intended to be worn:
      • If its purpose is primarily for comfort or protection (such as in the case of body armor, a coat, or a hat), then it is clothing.
      • If its purpose is primarily decorative or for purposes other than survival (such as a wristwatch or a necklace), then it is jewelry.
    • If the object is primarily intended to hold or carry information:
      • If it primarily holds textual information in a human-readable format (such as a book or written contract), it is a document.
      • If it holds information using a method other than text (such as a video clip or audio recording), it is media. Electronic media also falls into this category, as any data on computer storage device is not directly human-readable. However, if the contained data is also primarily textual, it may be both document and media.
    • If it consists of food or drink, it should be tagged food.
    • If an object does not fall into any of the categories above, then it should merely be tagged as an artifact. For the purposes of SCP tagging, artifact means that it was created by any sentient intelligence, not just a human.
  • Does the object use power?
    • If the object operates using semiconductors (such as those in computer chips), it is electronic.
    • If the object is powered by electricity but is not electronic, then it should be tagged as electrical.
  • If the object has moving parts, it is probably mechanical.
    • If said moving parts are mostly gears and springs, it should also be tagged as clockwork.

Entities

• Is the entity human or human-like?
  • Any entity that resembles a human or has similar morphology to a human should be tagged as humanoid.
• Is the entity a creature of some sort?
  • If the entity shares traits with terrestrial organisms of the kingdom Animalia (locomotion, non-photosynthetic metabolism, pronounced response to stimuli, restricted growth, and fixed bodily structure), it is an animal (even if it doesn't resemble any terrestrial organism closely enough to qualify for a morphology tag [see below]).
  • If the entity shares traits with terrestrial, herbaceous organisms (especially those capable of photosynthesis), it is a plant.
  • If the entity resembles a tree, it should also be tagged as arboreal, even if it does not qualify as a plant.
  • If the entity resembles a terrestrial organism, even if it does not fit the traits of an animal or is not alive, then it should be tagged with an appropriate morphology tag (such as avian, canine, feline, etc).
  • If the entity is a living organism, defined by the three traits of a) responding to external stimuli, b) having a metabolism (consuming energy and producing waste), and c) is capable of reproduction, then it is alive.
    • If the entity doesn't have all three traits but still resembles an organism (such as a "living" statue), it is autonomous instead.
    • If the entity isn't technically alive but has an internal structure consistent with the organs and tissues of terrestrial organisms, composed of organic compounds (such as proteins), it is biological instead.
  • If the entity subsists by infesting a host organism and feeding off its host, it is a parasite. Note that parasitoids, which kill their host rather than just feed off them, are included in this definition.
  • If the entity infects other entities (such as animals or humans) and spreads among them, it is probably a contagion. An entity cannot be both a contagion and a parasite at the same time.
  • If the entity "hijacks" the reproductive system of another entity (such as a creature that grows and matures in the womb of a different type of creature's womb), then it should be tagged as reproductive.
• If the entity does not have physical mass or otherwise cannot be touched (and does not fall under the definition of a liquid or gas), then it is intangible.
• If the entity is capable of reasoning and abstract thought (generally conveyed through the ability to communicate) and emotion beyond basic instinctual response (such as affection, hatred, or resentment), it is sapient. Note that while many animals are sentient, in real life the only organism we know of that is sapient are humans. (Hence our name, Homo sapiens.) The sapient tag indicates a roughly human (or greater than human) level of intelligence, and can be applied even if the anomaly doesn't seem particularly clever.
• If the entity hunts other creatures, including humans, for food, it is predatory.
• If the entity is actively hostile towards humans or the Foundation in particular in a way that precludes predatory or defensive behavior, it is hostile.
• If an entity represents an entire anomalous species, particularly if its anomalous properties are inherited by its offspring, then it should be tagged as such.
• If an entity's natural environment is in or under water, then it is aquatic.
• If an entity's natural environment is in the air or it is capable of flight, then it is airborne.

Locations

• If an anomalous location encompasses an entire settlement (such as a town or city) or a significant portion of a settlement, then it should be tagged with city.
• If an anomalous location encompasses an entire artificial structure or a specific portion thereof, it should be tagged as such.
  • If that structure was intended for human occupation (such as a home, office, or factory), then it should be tagged as a building instead.

Effects

• Does the effect have something to do with our senses?
  • If observing an object, entity or effect triggers an anomalous response or another effect, then it is a cognitohazard. This should be used in conjunction with one of the five sensory tags:
    • If looking at or seeing it triggers it in a way that precludes simply being exposed to bright light or other forms of harmful radiation, it is a visual cognitohazard.
    • If hearing or listening to it triggers it in a way that precludes damage caused by simply being too loud or harmonic disruption, it is an auditory cognitohazard.
    • If smelling it triggers it in such a way other than the ingestion of toxic or otherwise harmful chemicals, it is an olfactory cognitohazard.
    • If tasting it triggers it in such a way other than contact with harmful substances, it is a gustatory cognitohazard.
    • If feeling it triggers it in such a way that it precludes mere contact (such as feeling the texture or consistency of a substance), then it is a tactile cognitohazard.
  • If the effect causes us to sense objects or entities that cannot be detected by other subjects or recording devices, then it is causing a hallucination. Should be used in conjunction with specific sensory tags.
  • If the effect causes us to sense objects or entities differently from other people (such as being able to sense things normally too faint or indistinct to be sensed, having a disconnect in our sensory perception, or even losing the ability to use a sense entirely), it should be tagged as sensory as well as any appropriate sensory tags.
• Does the effect have something to do with information or knowledge about it?
  • If the effect consists of infectious information; that is, if once exposed an affected subject is capable of reproducing the specific effect and spreading it to others, it may be a memetic agent. All memetic agents are also cognitohazards, but not all cognitohazards are memetic.
  • If merely knowing of the existence of the object, entity, or location can trigger an anomalous effect, then it is an infohazard.
  • If the object, entity, or location affects documentation or descriptions of itself, then it is has a meta effect.
• If an anomalous effect displaces energy or mass into or from an alternate timeline, an alternate reality, or a plane of existence separate from our own, it should be tagged as extradimensional.
  • If the anomalous effect manifests as an opening into said timeline, reality, or plane (no matter how small or temporary) through which objects or entities can be moved through, it is also a portal.
• If an anomalous effect displaces energy or mass into a different timeframe (the past or future) or affects the passage of time experienced by an object or entity, then it is temporal.
• If an anomalous effect creates or destroys energy or mass that is conclusively not a result of extradimensional or temporal displacement, then it is ectoentropic. This includes anything that can be described as "having power despite having no power source" or "producing something out of nothing".

Miscellaneous Attributes

• If the object or entity was displaced from an alternate timeline, an alternate reality, or a plane of existence separate from our own, it should be tagged as extradimensional.
• If the object or entity is outside of the Earth's atmosphere or has been conclusively determined to have originated from outside the Earth's atmosphere, then it should be tagged as extraterrestrial.
• If the object or entity affects the flow of time or comes from or is capable of displacement of itself or others between two different timeframes, then it should be tagged as temporal.
  • If the object or entity was specifically displaced from a later period of time into an earlier one (even if the origin and destination time frame are both in the past), then it should be tagged as future.
• If the object or entity exhibits inconsistent or non-Euclidean structure (such as being bigger on the inside than it is on the outside) or otherwise warps space (such as connecting two different locations in such a way such that travelling between them is shorter than that suggested by the shortest straight-line distance between them), then it should be tagged as spacetime.
• If the object or entity allows objects or individuals is some sort of gateway or aperture into an extradimensional, extratemporal, extraterrestrial, or spacetime-inconsistent location, then it should be tagged as a portal.
• If the object or entity appears to have limitless energy, creates something out of nothing, or destroys something into nothing that precludes displacement from or into an alternate extradimensional, extraterrestrial, or temporal location, then it should be tagged as ectoentropic.
• If the object or entity cannot be destroyed, killed, or otherwise damaged or harmed by any means the Foundation has devised so far, it should be tagged as indestructible.
  • If the object or entity is capable of being damaged or harmed but can quickly restore or regenerate itself to its normal condition, it should be tagged as self-repairing.
• If the object is capable of reproducing or otherwise produces copies of itself in a way that precludes sexual or asexual reproduction, it should be tagged as self-replicating.
• If the entity can (voluntarily or otherwise) change its shape or appearance to other fixed forms (including mimicking other entities or objects or an infinite number of variations), it is metamorphic.
  • If the entity can mimic or copy the shape or form of other things, it should be tagged as mimetic.
  • If the entity does not have any shape, or could be described as a "blob", "undifferentiated mass", or "shapeless mass", then it should be tagged as amorphous instead.

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