28-02-2018: Crystal joined the French branch.

09-03-2018: Crystal stole the incomplete translation of an inactive member and posted it without proper crediting. We didn’t realize at the time.

13-03-2018: Crystal proposed creating a Canadian branch as it does not exist yet, and he would be in charge, then requested help to set it up. When asked why the French-speaking Canadians wouldn’t join the French-speaking branch of the SCP Foundation, he answered “We all know the instinct for independence of the French Canadians and that’s pretty much all”. A dozen of persons (both staff and more experienced members) explained to him that his project in its current form was rather useless and that they doubted he would be able to manage it properly, and he couldn’t argue back.
http://fondationscp.wikidot.com/forum/t-5474971

14-03-2018: Crystal claimed he found a forum violating the license, took the matters in his own hand by contacting them and filed a complaint when they did not listen to him. He was given an official Warning for that. User contested rather insolently.
http://fondationscp.wikidot.com/forum/t-5483658/signalement-violations-de-copyright

The forum in question mimicked our 05command, with different account stealing the nicknames of staff members and copy-pasted posts and utilitarian pages. It was deleted the same day (about which Crystal bragged). It was later revealed that the admin of the forum was Crystal himself and that it predated Crystal joining our community. A second forum mimicking the forum of the French branch was also discovered with the same nicknames (this one not deleted http://bayondrpprincipal.forumactif.com/).

His answers regarding the project became less and less convincing on this second thread, as he persisted and ignored nearly every suggestion with a certain arrogance and a growing anger.
http://fondationscp.wikidot.com/forum/t-5484326

He later apologized through PM, but some signs betray a everybody-is-against-me mentality including messages on his sandbox: “Some people told me I should give up but I didn’t. Why? Because I don’t need their diatribes, I have my determination. – DrCrystal, originator of the project.”

15-03-2018: Crystal broke one of the most common rules of the French Branch (posting a draft before having the idea approved). He was called to order in a very magnanimous way as a 24h ban could have been issued against him for this second major violation but behaved rudely and was called to order again.
http://fondationscp.wikidot.com/forum/t-5489098/critique-l-homme-au-coeur-pur-et-sa-balance

16-03-2018: Crystal stole the incomplete translation of an inactive member and submitted it for validation, without changing a single word. We didn’t realize at the time.

Crystal apologized again for his aggressive behavior and revealed that he had already created the Canadian Wiki. However, the “Staff Organization” page of that wiki included several French staff members as staff (without them knowing) and plagiarized French guides.

We had suspicions of Crystal usurping the identity of some notable individuals (an admin of SCP-Gmod and a SCP-Youtuber). On his twitter account, he also claimed to be the manager of a 200k-youtuber.

17-03-2018: It was established that Crystal used at least two accounts to interact with us under different nicknames. He was banned 24h for that third major infraction and his behavior.

18-03-2018: It was revealed that Crystal had stolen drawings from a French artist (Anderlaxe), posted it as his own on the forum, our Discord, and external Discords. He used the nickname (Ander) for weeks in order to be more believable. Permabanned at this point for massive deception.
https://twitter.com/SohoBlake/status/975166173275938816

Several French translations have also been stolen and posted on the Canadian branch and the Author page of our admin Johannes (where he put his name instead of Johannes).

We also discovered he had created a Discord, where he copied every chan of our Discord, copy pasted our rules and even the latest news of our chan Announcement. We confronted him on this Discord but he denied everything, hiding behind his second account (despite being exposed we knew for certain it was him). We tried to explain to him one last time then left as he never cooperated.

23-03-2018: Crystal keeps stealing French material without proper crediting.

Crystal opened a thread on 05command-CA as follows:

Although it’s a shame to do it, I have to open this thread, as the branch is now launched, concerning the reaction of the French staff and their “aversion” for the project.

Quote of Cendres [French staff]

“As you may already know, there’s been a proposal from user DrCrystal to create a Canadian branch, as follows:

[Quote of Crystal’s first proposal on the forum]

I’d usually say this comes out of our jurisdiction, but since they asked our help as staff, we have to pretend to do our work, officially and with procedure, as if we’re professionals and not internet clowns.”

I don’t know what you think, but I see nothing but aversion for the project, maybe they’re afraid we steal their audience and new members?

Anyway, according to that post, their staff will definitely ask their community to mass-report as they already did.

Waiting for your opinion before deciding for good. [Sidenote: beside his other accounts, Crystal is alone on his website]

As non-members could answer the discussion, Neremsa went for a last message to him:

Well.

We told you it was most probably premature to launch such a branch with the little knowledge of Wikidot you have. Proof are, you struggle setting up a poor theme and non-members can post messages on your staff site. We also told you launching a Canadian website was of very little interest since Canada’s languages are English and French, and there already is both an English-speaking branch (mainbranch) and a French-speaking branch of the Foundation. We even told you we would be glad to see the French lore diversify. But no, you persisted. (Actually, if we check dates you created it before asking…)

Your knowledge of the lore is patchy. You seem to think each country has its O5 Council although it’s not the case. Your Canadian O5 Council is an inanity, since there only is one for all the Foundation. Your 001 is cliché and poorly written (even by Series I’s standards).

Then, you violate the license by not crediting what you take from the French branch.

But above all, you plagiarized an artist on Twitter by claiming the drawings you posted on Discord were yours. No one of the Foundation (no matter the branch) will ever trust a plagiarizer. Besides, we don’t even need to mass-report you, plagiarism breaks Wikidot’s terms of use. It’s that easy. The SCP community hates plagiarism, because we’re artists. You simply discredited yourself for life.

Neremsa, administrator of the French-speaking branch of the SCP Foundation

PS: deleting this message is useless as it was carefully screened and saved on the French O5 forum.

And it was indeed deleted. And Crystal answered twice:

Intentional provocation of one of the French admins. It’s settled, the French-speaking French branch is making fun of us. I close the debate as follows.

If French/Belgian people are taking the piss out of us, we’ll do the same. Let’s also emphasize Neremsa (the French admin in question) did not hesitate having fun of my SCP sooo… I deny any direct cooperation with this admin. They’ll have to choose one single contact to represent and it won’t be Neremsa.

http://commandemento5ca.wikidot.com/forum/t-5568709/la-cooperation-avec-la-branche-francaise
Second post

Today at 17:00 (GMT+1 French time), non-member Neremsa posted here, in our hidden place, a message in the name of the French branch, and not hesitating to criticize meanly one of my SCP, which is not an official and responsible behavior. I changed the permissions so non-members can no longer post. Behavior to monitor everywhere when he talks about us and NO DISCUSSING official matters with him until he apologizes properly. There are other staffs.

http://commandemento5ca.wikidot.com/forum/t-5575329/o5-francais-non-membre-neremsa

We consider Neremsa’s behavior was ok, so he will not get any excuse. We also think it’s incredibly sassy to ask for excuses despite never apologizing himself for his most serious offenses, but it’s not that important.

TL;DR: The whole thing is quite fucked up and he is fucked up as well. The guy has been a lying piece of deception all along, and we even have reasons to think he is actually not Canadian we even have the proof he's not Canadian and has probably never stepped a foot in Canada. We will monitor any activity of his as close as we can and already engaged the procedures to resolve the still ongoing situations. We also do not consider and will never consider his branch as legitimate.

The French staff fervently hopes all branches will cut off any unnecessary contact with this individual and his so-called representatives (at least as long as he does not apologize) and we hope he will be banned from here too.

Agent Timothy

After I told the other INT staff, he sent several messages on the french discord and denied everything entirely, then abruptly left the server. I insisted via PM, and he said that he wasn't even a member of INT (turns out he left the site) and that he had apparently been banned from the french discord (he wasn't).

He remains disconnected, although he joined back the french Discord. We haven't heard of him since then.

Proof that he left INT

– hide block

Holt and I suspect a severe and not assumed case of lying, and the bustle following all this kinda got me worked up, I admit.

The user also created lots of sandboxes on multiple branches (see his user info). Looks like a paper chase. But unless the user got approval by our staff for this I'd count it as clickbait. If you want to play such games, ask first.

The user has been emergeny banned from the chat with approval of LadyKatie, Rikjard Regreps, LofB and myself.

We now have to discuss how long the user stays banned, and if we also ban them from the wiki.

http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-2210729/westydude

He just received a perma from EN for the chat, and has been removed from O5 there as well. Awaiting Staff decision on whether a wiki ban is in order in EN.

Edit: He does have a disciplinary thread on EN. http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-2210747#post-2786433

If he appears in this site, I ask for his permanent ban.