User talk:TTOXX

Special measures apply to cryptocurrency related pages
Hello, TTOXX. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.

MER-C 14:16, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

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Hi, thanks for message. Please make sure that you have read the general sanctions message above, which applies to all blockchain and cryptocurrency articles. I deleted your article because
 * it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines for companies and products. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the company, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company claims or interviewing its management. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls
 * The notability guidelines for organisations and companies have been updated. The primary criteria has five components that must be evaluated separately and independently to determine if it is met:
 * significant coverage in
 * independent,
 * multiple,
 * reliable,
 * secondary sources.
 * Note that an individual source must meet all four criteria to be counted towards notability. Your references were to the company itself (obviously not independent) Steemit and Medium. Although the latter are frequently used in this type of article, they are not suitable. They range from straight promos and press releases to stuff which is basically unattributed opinions.


 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.
 * there shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections. That's particularly the case when they are spamlinks to affiliated sites.
 * Examples of unsourced or self-sourced claims presented as fact include: is to provide an easy way to trade different cryptocurrencies while being as fast and as private as possible... they get similar benefits real shareholders would: 50% of all profits will be regularly distributed to the token holders 


 * in the absence of proper references, it's not clear how this meets the notability criteria I've linked
 * Thank you for declaring your conflict of interest when editing this article. However, it's probably not a good idea to write about something in which you have a financial interest.

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read this important guidance. You must also reply to the COI request above

The fact that other articles have not been deleted doesn't help you, either they met the criteria or should be deleted as well. See other stuff exists. Also note that many articles, including Shapeshift, would have been accepted before the notability guidelines were made stricter. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:23, 10 July 2018 (UTC)