Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steemit

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Disregarding IP's comment, general consensus. Further discussion to the talk page please. (non-admin closure) Nightfury 11:30, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Steemit

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No evidence of notability. Some text is very advertorial;. One ref is just an analytical chart of value, one is Wired and one is OR. Nothing that gets close to WP:GNG  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   02:52, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Comment(Now keep, per User:Balkywrest): There are quite a few articles out there about Steemit which come from reliable sources, but aren't included in the article. Not enough to merit a keep on its own, but worth considering. Articles such as:

The Guardian writes: "Steemit is similar to social media website Reddit and Facebook in the way it operates, encouraging users to post and share content. However, Steemit is also powered by blockchain, the underlying technology that anchors digital currencies such as bitcoin.", and contains some information about their history.

Reuters writes: "Steemit essentially is a website that rewards or pays users who post content that gets multiple thumbs up from the site’s participants. The reward given is the steem currency.". It's worth noting that both this article and the one from The Guardian, as well as a few others I've found such as this one from the Observer seem to all quote the same interview with Ned Scott, the co-founder of Steemit.

Techcrunch writes: "Steemit, a distributed app designed to reward content creators, has laid off 70 percent of its staff, citing “the weakness of the cryptocurrency market, the fiat returns on our automated selling of STEEM diminishing, and the growing costs of running full Steem nodes.", and "Steemit became one of the first working decentralized applications and allowed users to submit content and pay content creators."

There's a lot of Cryptocurrency articles that should never have been created, and in this form Steem is one of them; but out of the junk out there, this one might be worth cleaning up. Dr-Bracket (talk) 03:45, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:18, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

References

• Keep - sources prove notability:

• Digital currency Steem soars to more than $150 million in value in two weeks - Reuters (July 2016)
• Steemit Social Network Hacked, User Funds Stolen, DDoS Attack Ensued - Softpedia News (July 2016)
• Steemit Is Like Reddit, But Where Upvotes Equal a Cryptocurrency Payout - Motherboard (August 2016)
• Steemit, a decentralized sharing system, lays off 70% of staff - TechCrunch (November 2018)

Balkywrest (talk) 08:51, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

• Marginal - there's a few sources that say "oh this thing exists". I just culled it strictly to RSes and removed some puffery - David Gerard (talk) 10:11, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
• Keep - I incorporated some sources offered by Dr-Bracket (talk · contribs) above after David's cleanup and it is now pretty clear that this needs WP:GNG. I think we just need to keep a keen eye on these type of crypto articles as they are often targets to promo content. (aka, buy some tokens and then come and pump it on wikipedia) Jtbobwaysf (talk) 10:48, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
• Comment Some academic sources:

The Paradoxical Effects of Blockchain Technology on Social Networking Practices from International Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco 2018

Sustainable Growth and Token Economy Design: The Case of Steemit published in Sustainability (journal)

Can Social News Websites Pay for Content and Curation? The SteemIt Cryptocurrency Model published in Journal of Information Science Џ 17:41, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

• Keep - Although I understand being wary of crypto-related pages, this is actually one of the more well-reported and used cases. I think this does pass WP:GNG. We just need to make sure the article also passes WP:PROMO. Skirts89 (talk) 20:18, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
• Biased entries, trying to skirt the systemIt should be noted the the use Џ posts negatively on every other blockchain entry other than one! Super biased. 50.29.194.50 (talk) 02:27, 20 January 2019 (UTC) — 50.29.194.50 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

No policy based argument made by this IP. Balkywrest (talk) 15:04, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

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