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Well, pretty much I decided that I want to remove the category. Since it's not a depreciated category, like Death or Shock Ending, but I feel like that it is an unneeded category.

My reasoning for removing this category is that we have templates that indicate who wrote the article, such as by-user, by, and cred. I'll give you the meaning of each template, but all of them pretty much give credit to the author.

By-user: It indicates that a specific person, or you have wrote the article, it highlights the user's name (meaning that you want to be recognized on this wiki), and gives out the CC-By-SA liscence. It's pretty handy for authors, because it links their profile page at the bottom (rather than doing Written by Fatal Disease

By: It has the same purpose as By-user, except that it has more options. It doesn't have the CC-BY-SA license, but it can give you the specific credit that you need. Let's say that you want to be more known on Deviantart, or a site, you can just do Fatal Disease. Or that you can give yourself, or the user, credit on here by doing Fatal Disease. Or just don't do nothing to it at all, just add the name.

Cred: Cred means that the author, or you, wants credit, but only links to the author's Creepypasta profile. It is good for stories that are qualitative that were deleted on Creepypasta.

So, pretty much, due to these templates that give credit to the original author of these stories, I feel that the OC category should be removed from this site. Rather than going and removing this category myself, without say, I feel like I should let the community decide its fate.

 