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Subject does not meet WP:GNG. It was declined in AfC numerous times for the same reason. The references are contributor pieces, the official website, or industry publications. The rest are brief mentions that are not in-depth for notability. CNMall41 (talk) 16:24, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

• Delete I did approve this from AfC, but I completely agree with CNMall41. There is no substantial coverage in independent reliable sources and what sources there are do not demonstrate the notability of the subject. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 16:32, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

• delete The article is almost entirely based on poor sources. There is virtually no coverage in reliable sources. Retimuko (talk) 16:59, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
• Delete Hyperbolick (talk) 18:19, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

comment @Hyperbolick: Please be aware that this is not a vote. Your entry can (and should) be ignored if you do not present any reasonable arguments to support your position. See WP:JUSTAVOTE Retimuko (talk) 18:48, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

• KEEP Sources for the article include Forbes, Reuters, The United Nations, CNBC, Bloomberg, Nasdaq, MIT and the BBC. The page already contains significantly more numerous and more reliable sources than the majority of cryptocurrency pages on Wikipedia (none of which are marked for deletion). For example Cardano (platform), zcash, PotCoin, Synereo, or indeed most of the cryptocurrency platforms listed here List of cryptocurrencies. And please don't just quote Wikipedia:Other_stuff_exists - there should be a degree of consistency. Wikipedia has accepted a large number of cryptocurrency pages with inferior sources and much less notability than the Skycoin page. Peak Debt (talk) 19:35, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Except WP:OTHERSTUFF is 100% applicable to your argument. If there are issues with other pages, they need to be dealt with separately. For the references you mentioned above, can you point out which ones are in-depth and talk about Skycoin in detail (not just brief mentions)?--CNMall41 (talk) 19:47, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

WP:OTHERSTUFF might apply if there was only a small percentage of similar pages, but when the vast majority of cryptocurrency pages on Wikipedia (dozens of pages) contain fewer sources, of similar or lower quality, then that's a precedent.

The United Nations video discusses Skycoin technology several times, and the NASDAQ video is entirely about Skycoin (the video was published by the official NASDAQ accounts).

The Bloomberg source is entirely about Skycoin.

The Forbes articles (which you removed) were entirely or substantially about Skycoin (I don't see any Wikipedia rule that says Forbes articles are unreliable if published by a contributor).

The Binance article on Medium that announced the Binance/Skycoin partnership was also removed because "medium is unreliable". But that article was published by the official Binance account. So why is it considered unreliable when Binance says it has a partnership with Skycoin, just because Binance chooses to make that announcement on Medium? (Binance also made the same announcement on Twitter).

Today I added a link to an article discussing the partnership between Skycoin and John McAfee. (McAfee also announced this on Twitter).

I know Wikipedia doesn't accept Twitter links as reliable, and I haven't included them in the article. But surely if they come from the official account they are actually reliable. Times are changing, and Wikipedia should perhaps recognize official/confirmed social media accounts (Youtube, Medium, Twitter etc.) as reliable sources. Peak Debt (talk) 20:20, 5 November 2018 (UTC)