Talk:SCP: Secret Laboratory

Gave the article a rewrite in order to add stronger sources and put in a bit more information and context with the gameplay. The original article did read a bit LLMish IMO also, with its extremely barebones reception section. (Though I do apologize to OP for saying this, if it was user-written)

Sadly, I did have to remove a bit of the development section, since there's no surviving secondary sources surrounding its indev stages that I know of. If anyone here knows of a good source that adds this information back in then that would be greatly appreciated.

Hope OP doesn't mind the rewrite. ThyCheshireCat (talk) 03:32, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: Ok, thanks for a crack at the feedback and appreciate two of the three new sources are reliable games sources. Let's go through them:
  * GameTyrant is a review, but isn't on WP:VG/S and the site has no editorial policy, or information at all really. Dean Clark is presented as a "writer" and "Diablo slayer". So it isn't really at the calibre we'd hope for regarding WP:RS.
  * Steam reviews and player counts are user-based and not really information we need in the Reception section based on the manual of style. We're looking for in-depth reviews. So the Ars Technica article is not so helpful here.
  * The PC Gamer article is a legit source, but it is talking about a very niche thing about the game - it doesn't really evaluate or describe the game itself in any detail, beyond a specific aspect of the map. It's not a review.
  So we are ever so slightly closer to notability, but in terms of the conventional standard of having around WP:THREE in-depth articles about the game from reliable games media, none of these are hitting the mark. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 05:31, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: The game is non-notable. Most of the sources are not useful to establish notability as user-generated or primary sources. Both the GamesRadar+ and Dexerto links direct the reader to 404 pages and haven't been archived on the Internet Archive. Assuming best intentions here, you need to take a different tack because the current draft isn't really close to being ready. You need to find significant coverage from reliable gaming sources about Secret Laboratory for this to be included on the site. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 12:06, 8 September 2025 (UTC)