Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Verge (cryptocurrency) (3rd nomination)


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The result was speedy withdrawal. (non-admin closure) Ysangkok (talk) 02:12, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Verge (cryptocurrency)
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notability not established, sources are not researching, the Mashable source mentioned in the previous AfD is sourcing Bitcointalk and Twitter, this cannot be considered reliable journalism. Also, there is no guideline saying that if a coin gets hacked twice and it gets covered, Wikipedia must include the article. There are tens of coins like this one. I am tempted to mention how the value of the coin has collapsed and almost no development is happening, but that is not how notability is established. Simply by applying the guidelines for reputable sources that we have, this article has no ground to stand on. The previous AfD asserted notability because of an article in The Register. The article is sourced from forum posts and does not contain independent research. --Ysangkok (talk) 20:06, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 11:20, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. Nothing has changed since the last nomination. The Register article being sourced from forum posts has no bearing on the reliability of the article. That's literally what a secondary source does. They synthesize information from primary sources, evaluate them for reliability, and put out a news article. For example, the forum posts do not establish notability, but when a journalist takes those forum posts to analyze and comment on them that does create notability. The journalist looks at the numerous forum posts about cryptocurrencies being shitty or vulnerable or hacked and then writes articles about the posts or tweets that are actually important.
 * Also, again, the notability of this cryptocurrency isn't affected by time. The fact the coin is now worthless and is no longer under active development does not make it non-notable. This was mentioned in the first AfD and it's necessary to mention that again. While the nominator has qualified their statement w/r/t this by saying Verge's lack of development "is not how notability is established" it's still pretty clear that they're bringing it up as a reason to get the article deleted. Otherwise they wouldn't have mentioned it in the first place. Chess (talk) (please use&#32; on reply) 01:21, 10 November 2020 (UTC)


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