Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mintcoin

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The result was delete. Tawker (talk) 06:52, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Mintcoin[edit]

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Yet another non-notable cryptocurrency that fails WP:GNG, WP:PROMO. Citation Needed | Talk 20:44, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I'm not seeing a whole lot in the way of coverage. Nothing at Wall Street Journal, for example. Nothing significant in Google Scholar and such. There's this but it look like a blog. Very little in the way of coverage from sources independent of the subject. Most of what I'm seeing comes from sites offering advice on how to trade, or what to invest in, etc. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:05, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=450381.0;topicseen one of the major altcoins on bit coin talk. Official thread is 500 pages long — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.123.154.81 (talk • contribs)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:41, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete, didn't meet WP:GNG, could not identify any independently published no reliable sources covering the topic, and none are cited in the article. I do not consider altcoinauthority.com, altcoinherald.com, or cryptoscribe.com, which all discuss the subject, to be reliable sources. Agyle (talk) 16:36, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - we need a guideline specifically for cryptocurrencies for editors to work to. Jonpatterns (talk) 17:14, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Help:Getting started has a dozen links to helpful articles, and guidelines like WP:GNG cover what went wrong with this article. In most cases articles like these seem to come from very new Wikipedia editors, who haven't found the guidelines yet. There is so much to read, it's very understandable that a new editor misses some basics like citing reliable sources. ––Agyle (talk) 05:08, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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