Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sidechain (ledger) (2nd nomination)


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The result was redirect to Blockchain. (non-admin closure) buidhe 15:07, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Sidechain (ledger)
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Previously nominated by and kept as no consensus, but with very little discussion and the only real Keep advocacy being the article's creator. This is a dictionary definition, basically, and there don't appear to be sources for it to be anything else. We can say what it is, and pretty much nothing else. Attempts to add sourcing have fallen at the usual hurdle: wikis and crypto bulletin boards are not reliable sources. I think this should be at best a redirect to blockchain. Guy (help!) 11:44, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Finance-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:15, 14 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Redirect for now at most. This is a term that feels like it should be citable properly to Wikipedia standards ... but in years, we've singularly failed to - David Gerard (talk) 13:08, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to blockchain. If suitable sources haven't turned up in years, then there's nothing else for us to say, and we don't need to take a whole page to say it. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 22:46, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge to Blockchain. The previous AfD noted some reliable sources: A page or two in the book published by CRC Press and a solid page in the book  published by Princeton University Press. There is a briefer mention in the book  published by O'Reilly. All three are good sources. They might be enough for marginal notability, but are definitely enough for verifiability of basic facts about sidechain technology. According to our policy WP:ATD, we prefer alternatives to deletion for verifiable material. In this case, sidechains are a special type of blockchain, so the blockchain article would be a good target for a merge. --  20:45, 15 April 2020 (UTC)


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