SCP Foundation

Given the fact that the vast majority of scps are entities that are alive, mimic life, or produce some sort of life, I think it would make sense to add a formal anomalous life classification system.

Example: SCP-173 would be put in the kingdom of animate, non-organic entities, then a phylum for artificial entities, a class for humanoid animate, non-organic artificial entities, an order for entities like this but are actively hostile towards humans, a family for those of unknown origin, a genus for those traits described above but only vaguely resemble humans, and finally, SCP-173's designation.

I know it's a long shot, but I think something like this on the site would be really neat.

I do understand what you are saying, but I think it would be better if you made a table with the sandbox containing this information with some examples, like 682 or 409, to give us a visual on what you want.

Now, as an official thing to the site, most likely no. The SCP Foundation prides themselves to letting their writers be free with their writing with only a few constants (And even then you don't have to follow them!). But making a table and adding it to the site¹ that has it would be cool to people who want to add that sort of thing to their scip.

Then theres the fact that the Foundation in universe doesn't NEED this classification system. The object classes are enough. But like I said, writers have little to no restrictions with writing, so maybe they will figure out a way.

TL;DR: Cool idea, you should try to make a table on it. Probably not going to become baseline.

While I staunchly refuse to accept such a table as a canon, I would be extremely interested to see a tale that lays out this classification system and provides examples, in a matter akin to LurkD's Amnestics Guide.