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Fishmonger, also known as “I Am A Potato”, was a moderator and major contributor of containment fiction to the early SCP Wiki. Although his contributions^[1] were universally lauded at the time of his membership, he was later demoted due to his persistent issues with angry outbursts and behavior management.

Famously, Fishmonger reacted to being permanently banned due to this history and other dubious accusations of sockpuppeting by demanding all his works be deleted. The decision to comply resulted in the SCP Wiki’s adoption of a “no-canon” policy, setting a template for staff/ex-staff/user conflicts, and establishing author autonomy as a core principal maintained by SCP Wiki staff until early 2021, when it was abolished. Although once one of the most famous authors in the SCP community, his works have since fallen into obscurity and are read by few people and well-regarded and fully understood by even fewer persons.

His author page/personnel file is preserved in the Wayback Machine.^[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20200216165623/http://somethingfishy.wikidot.com/the-fishmonger-s-personnel-file

Creative Contributions

Fishmonger wrote a large quantity of original works, however little evidence of his works exists on the SCP Wiki itself. A complete archive of his materials is currently being hosted on multiple platforms such as archive.org and SCP Archive. In his time, Fishmonger was recognized as a core contributor to the SCP Wiki.

Community Conflict

Fishmonger was banned by the SCP Wiki staff in June of 2010 after a protracted series of disagreements and conflict. After repeatedly having been warned for his aggressive addressing of conflict he was permanently banned. The specific incident was over a supposed case of sockpuppeting, the merit of which has been disputed in the years since the ban. It is believed the primary motivating factor behind the ban was that the rest of staff was tired of dealing with the problems caused by Fishmonger’s unstable behavior.^[2]

After being removed from the site, Fishmonger had his lawyer send the SCP Wiki staff a letter demanding they delete his articles, or else he would file a lawsuit against them. While the legality of this move was doubted at the time and are absolutely meritless in hindsight, the staff decided to comply with Fishmonger’s request rather than give him the satisfaction of seeing them beg him to change his mind. A group of staff members volunteered and deleted everything. An archive of these deleted works is still available on the internet archive and is also available on this Wiki.

After deleting all of Fishmonger’s works, the SCP Staff decided that they would patch over the massive gaping holes in their canon by fully embracing the philosophical approach of ‘There is no canon’ which has been one of the bedrock ideas underpinning their collective creative process ever since.