Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blockstack

Blockstack

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A directory-like listing for an unremarkable private company. Significant RS coverage not found. What comes are is passing mentions and / or WP:SPIP. Created by Special:Contributions/Guylepage3 with few other contributions outside this topic. With $4M in venture funding and per review of available sources, it's clearly WP:TOOSOON for an encyclopedia entry. Does not meet WP:CORPDEPTH / WP:NCORP. K.e.coffman (talk) 01:00, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 08:12, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 08:12, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Scholar appears to be showing significant coverage, while some of that is WP:SPIP there do appear to be several independent references ... eg ISBN:1983910821 Anderson; https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8291986/. Creating author apparently not informed by nom.Djm-leighpark (talk) 12:51, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment The reference namechecks the company but does not provide in-depth information on the company. At most it discusses the technology developed by the company. The reference fails WP:CORPDEPTH. HighKing⁺⁺ 17:16, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment The initial article lede is more about the technology than the company .. and prior to this edit the infobox was software not the company.Djm-leighpark (talk) 16:05, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No indications of notability, references fail the criteria for establishing notability, topic fails GNG and WP:NCORP. HighKing⁺⁺ 17:16, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spirit of Eagle (talk) 01:55, 6 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: This article should be about the project not the company. The blockstream project has importance in the history of blockchain technology: it is a preeminent example of an 'overlay' system, a chain that runs on top of another. Also, because it switched its overlay from one blockchain (namecoin) to another (bitcoin), it acts as a powerful example of the robust nature of 'overlays'.Acuster (talk) 14:53, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Yunshui ^雲 _水 09:21, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

leaning delete It does have a large reference footprint in GScholar, but I'm not seeing papers that build on this idea and move forward with it; instead, it come across as everyone who does a paper on any blockchaining idea has the same section of name-dropping every other idea in the field, whether they use it or not. Therefore the large number of cites is a function of the current interest in blockchains in general, not interest in this particular idea. Mangoe (talk) 12:03, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"Significant RS coverage not found?" Uh.... hello!!!!! These are a like, a billion independent sources where nearly 90-percent or more of their content is about Blockstack: Forbes, two CoinDesk sources, Silicon Angle, the GScholar article mentioned above, Wired, all over the course of two years and all cited in the article!!!! "the large number of cites is a function of the current interest in blockchains in general, not interest in this particular idea." So what, they're still covering Blockstack! And that's just the beginning of it all. Clearly, the nominator did not do his research so much so that he couldn't just do one simple search on Google News. This is just another example that Afd is being handled by a, bunch of people who don't know what they're talking about or what the intercourse notability really means. Speedy Keep and block the nominator for his disruptive nomination. editorEهեইдအ😎 16:21, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]