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@Alexis Jazz: You added tags to this article a few months ago. Would you mind going into more detail about the article's problems? X-Editor (talk) 21:27, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

X-Editor, where do I even start? This article has a history of manipulation by Everipedians. It's slightly better than it was some time ago, but still pretty bad.
• "Everipedia is a blockchain-based online encyclopedia" Citation needed. I know it's impossible to edit Everipedia without installing some..thing on your computer, but this seems to be used for voting on edits. What is a "blockchain-based online encyclopedia" anyway? I'd say an encyclopedia that stores its content on a blockchain. Is there a reliable independent source that says that's actually what they do? Even if they do, https://everipedia.org/ is clearly not that.
• License: "Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Int'l". Not anymore, I checked recently and wasn't informed of any license when trying to edit.
• "After the blockchain is implemented, the company plans to convert the points into a token currency." and several following lines. I'm planning to build a spaceship. Speculation and daydreams.
• "Everipedia says the blockchain model does not have centralized servers, therefore eliminating the cost of servers." As everipedia.org is reachable with a normal browser this is horseshit.
• "As Everipedia is decentralized via blockchain, Forselius claims that it is not possible for governments to censor Everipedia by its assigned server IP addresses." I'm sure Forselius claims this but it's misleading and horseshit. Governments can target the domain or they can have sufficiently advanced systems (China) for fine grain filtering which is very difficult to get around. We mislead readers by presenting such a dubious claim without an independent source that actually looked into the claim to back it up.
• "Everipedia adapted social media elements such as letting celebrities communicate with fans" Misleading. The source says "Similarly, Wikipedia has no social element to their pages, versus Everipedia has implemented social features that allow, for example, celebrities to share and interact with fans" which shows right away that the source doesn't know what it's talking about, but it also doesn't explain what Everipedia does to accommodate this. This is far too vague and requires a better source.
• "Everipedia reportedly utilized a live Internet bot to monitor Wikipedia for changes, synchronizing such changes but giving preference to local edits on Everipedia." Yeeeeeah sure. And Prince Philip lives.
— Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 01:27, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's not all bad, that Houston Texans roster looks pretty sharp; with all that talent, I think they're going to mature into an NFL powerhouse. Kuru (talk) 01:58, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright

Everipedia claims they are under a CC BY 4.0 license... But since they are mostly copied from EN WP they cannot be. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:42, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Something worth adding to the article

Something that seems to be missing from this article is that Everipedia largely copypastas their articles from wikipedia. I know this claim is largely unsourced, however just go to there website, type any article, and compare that article to Wikipedia’s and you’ll see what I mean. They copy and paste articles from wikipedia into their own, with add very minor changes, and call it a “Everi~~Wiki~~pedia article”. Since the article is clearly made by Everipedians (or just anti-Wikipedians in general), it wouldn’t be surprising if they left this out. If someone can do something that’ll be helpful. 68.97.131.85 (talk) 19:52, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Just realized this was already talked about, my bad. 68.97.131.85 (talk) 19:57, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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	Something that seems to be missing from this article is that Everipedia largely copypastas their articles from wikipedia. I know this claim is largely unsourced, however just go to there website, type any article, and compare that article to Wikipedia’s and you’ll see what I mean. They copy and paste articles from wikipedia into their own, with add very minor changes, and call it a “Everi<s>Wiki</s>pedia article”. Since the article is clearly made by Everipedians (or just anti-Wikipedians in general), it wouldn’t be surprising if they left this out. If someone can do something that’ll be helpful. [[Special:Contributions/68.97.131.85\|68.97.131.85]] ([[User talk:68.97.131.85\|talk]]) 19:52, 20 March 2022 (UTC)		Something that seems to be missing from this article is that Everipedia largely copypastas their articles from wikipedia. I know this claim is largely unsourced, however just go to there website, type any article, and compare that article to Wikipedia’s and you’ll see what I mean. They copy and paste articles from wikipedia into their own, with add very minor changes, and call it a “Everi<s>Wiki</s>pedia article”. Since the article is clearly made by Everipedians (or just anti-Wikipedians in general), it wouldn’t be surprising if they left this out. If someone can do something that’ll be helpful. [[Special:Contributions/68.97.131.85\|68.97.131.85]] ([[User talk:68.97.131.85\|talk]]) 19:52, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

			:Just realized this was already talked about, my bad. [[Special:Contributions/68.97.131.85\|68.97.131.85]] ([[User talk:68.97.131.85\|talk]]) 19:57, 20 March 2022 (UTC)