User talk:Nick Hill

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Speedy deletion nomination of BitcoinZ[edit]

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A tag has been placed on BitcoinZ, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Hi, thanks for message. I deleted your article because

it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the organisation claims or interviewing its management. You gave no references of any kind.
There was nothing in your text that indicated how this topic met our notability criteria. There's just a description, but no facts at all to show why this product, created just a few months ago, has any significance here.
Articles must be neutral, encyclopaedic and non-promotional tone. Just describing the product without references or any indication of why it should have a place here looks like a promo. we get many software "articles" that tell us all the features, but nothing about sales, faults or whatever

I've seen your comments at the COI noticeboard, and you appear to be editing in good faith, but I'm declining your request to restore because a version exists at Draft:BitcoinZ, and you can't have two live versions of the same article. FWIW, the deleted text read BitcoinZ is an Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency incorporating ZK-Snark based private transactions. The code is based on a fork of Zcash. The blockchain is not a fork, and began with a new genesis block on 9th September 2017. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:42, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]