Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WorldCoin

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 delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:34, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WorldCoin

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The article is essentially a copy of the Litecoin article, and the main reason for its existence seems to be to promote a non-notable product. Most of the references do not even mention WorldCoin. Smite-Meister (talk) 03:39, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Copying and repurposing another article's text without attribution is surely a WP:COPYVIO and grounds for deletion in itself? AllyD (talk) 08:41, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Attribution can easily be added (I have done so). Copying another Wikipedia is fine as far as I know (see this page for more info). Cliff12345 (talk) 19:41, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I can't see any evidence of notability (as noted by OP, the references in the article don't actually talk about Worldcoin), so unless reliable sources can be presented, I think we should delete the article (or perhaps move it to the article incubator). Cliff12345 (talk) 19:45, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This article is in the process of being revamped and updated to be completely original content. Worldcoin is quite different than Litecoin and should not be lumped together, or considered a copy. It has over 1,273,000 unique transactions and a growing community. It is considered a Litecoin competitor, not a copy of litecoin. The group at #worldcoin on freenode irc is currently going through this article to thoughtfully update it with info that is unique to Worldcoin. Please give us a little time to perform these updates. Thank you, Nathan Gudmunson, Worldcoin Foundation Chair — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gudmunsn (talk • contribs) 19:16, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that deletion is the right tack to take with crypto-currencies. While there will likely only be a few left in ten years, the crypto-currency movement is starting to be the subject of numerous papers, even though I haven't found any that reference this particular "coin". I think rather than deleting the different CC pages so that only the "notable" ones survive (which would leave...? Just bitcoin?) but instead creating a page that talks about the movement and merging the different CC articles in to that article. Thoughts?218.85.77.136 (talk) 07:41, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There are already pages for this (Cryptocurrency and List of cryptocurrencies). I should note that there are articles for maybe 7 or 8 of the largest cryptocurrencies, i.e. the cryptocurrencies that have had any sort of mention in the news. Cliff12345 (talk) 13:26, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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