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The result was keep. There is a consensus among participating editors that there was significant coverage in multiple reliable independent sources to justify notability. While I did not fully examine it, my brief look into allegations of

canvassing did not indicate anything improper or which would otherwise prevent this AfD from being closed with a consensus. Barkeep49 (talk) 03:56, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply
]

Lightning Network

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Reason: There is a problem with

notability of the subject: the citations in the article refer to self-published texts that are not acceptable for notability. Other sources found also do not qualify as significant coverage by sources independent on the subject. Ladislav Mecir (talk) 23:15, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply
]

I think Bitcoin Lightning Network might be a better name; but I think that the Lightning Network is sufficiently notable for WP. It's fair to say that it's one of the most important initiatives in the Bitcoin ecosystem and seems to be the only viable path for Bitcoin to be used as a retail/mobile payment system (as opposed to a transaction settlement system or a digital asset). JimD (talk) 00:04, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
nah, it was designed to work with other coins, e.g. Litecoin, and even has a cross-chain payment system (even if it's clunky and exploitable) - David Gerard (talk) 00:06, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The Lightning Network can be used for payment channels and value transfer with a wide variety of cryptocurrencies (or even without cryptocurrencies potentially as demonstrated by a recent chat app Whatsat). It would not make sense to label it as "bitcoin" even though that is its primary use case currently (just as the "World Wide Web" is not "the Internet"). Litecoin is actively tested as well for example. – JonathanCross (talk) 19:38, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Can this link do as not self-published? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-15/technology-meant-to-make-bitcoin-money-again-is-going-live-today . knocte (talk) 12 December 2019 (UTC)
  • Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly
    Talk to my owner:Online 23:40, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply
    ]
The Lightning Network is functional today and can be used to buy things. The suggestion that hundreds of professionals and academics working on this are somehow "crooks who claim the impossible" is both factually incorrect and inappropriate here in this discussion about notability of the subject. – JonathanCross (talk) 21:07, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • comment If it doesn't deserve its own article, it is surely notable enough within the sphere of Bitcoin to be a section in the Bitcoin article? —ajf (talk) 00:36, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • comment - combine all the crypto etc. articles into 3 mega articles. That would be better for everybody involved. Smallbones(smalltalk) 00:53, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • With crypto articles, we've been tending to need them to show that anyone cares outside the crypto bubble - so, mainstream press sources or peer-reviewed academic sources are required for notability. Could we write an article from what I listed there? Maybe. Is it evidence of sufficient notability? Not sure, which is why I just provided the list - David Gerard (talk) 07:25, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
(As a note, David Gerard is a recognized expert in the field of crypto currency, so he should hopefully weigh in on this. I really think that he would agree with me that Lightning Network is notable in the context of Bitcoin even if it is not a good system). Michepman (talk) 02:47, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This just means I have more sources ;-) I think it might well be, otoh the mainstream coverage is "gosh this is a thing isn't it!" and "but it doesn't work very well does it" - which may indicate notability, but won't give us so much to work with - David Gerard (talk) 10:14, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • comment I feel like this subject could get adequately covered as part of a broader article on consensusless decenteralized payment systems, but considering that lightning is the only such system with even moderately wide deployment and that there aren't a lot of secondary sources on the broader idea... that gets in the way of covering it that way. There are a lot of bit-rotten obscure cryptocurrency articles that should probably be removed[7] and if I were to rank them, I'd put lightning near the bottom of a list. As was pointed out above, lightning isn't Bitcoin specific but could be used with a multitude of systems that provide a small number of properties (in the case of centeralized systems, it could even potentially be used without the operators' knowledge). Covering it as part of a bitcoin article wouldn't really work, as a result.--Gmaxwell (talk) 03:43, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Gmaxwell: normally we dont remove old dead subjects. They are useful from a historic perspective. Also think your suggestion of a broader article would be nice, maybe we can do that when there are some other similar networks up on ethereum, etc. Or maybe they will later all be referred to as lightning, if that becomes the common name. Jtbobwaysf (talk) 04:00, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Sure-- not merely for being dead. But when a subject is active and on the border of notability wikipedia sometimes leans toward keeping it around and seeing what happens. But if a subject has gone cold historical perspective can make the lack of interest more clear than it was in realtime. Regardless, lightning is very much not dead. My only point there was that effort debating the boundary of cryptocurrency notability would be better spent on things that weren't close to obvious keeps. :) --Gmaxwell (talk) 04:25, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
indeed. FYI, this nomination probably resulted from a discussion we were having over at Talk:Bitcoin#Lightning_Network where this AFD nominator also appears to have deleted the lightning content from the Bitcoin article as well. Sad/laughable, but we we deal with here at wikipedia, if you dont like it, then delete it... Jtbobwaysf (talk) 04:43, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The nominator has also deleted lightning network content (with
WP:RS's) from various other articles under discussion Talk:Bitcoin_Cash#Lightning_content and Talk:Bitcoin#Lightning_Network, its not only this nomination. Interesting that these discussions result in news articles, but we haven't an influx of comments, so maybe few people read these crypto news articles anyhow and a good thing they are no longer used as sources. Jtbobwaysf (talk) 05:22, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply
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— NeedAUsername44 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. ミラP 02:59, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per others. If you look here, the nom has canvassed several people to this discussion. I've reverted most of them per
    WP:DENY. ミラP 02:59, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply
    ]

Canvassing allegation

@Miraclepine: You stated above you removed AfD notices from many user's talk pages. I find this inappropriate. FYI, I guess Ladislav Mecir knew well I would vote keep (and he was a delete vote as the nominator), so I am not sure how pinging me (someone who he can assume will vote against his proposal) is canvassing. He can assume this as Ladislav and I were discussing lightning content (from opposite sides of the fence) at Talk:Bitcoin_Cash#Lightning_content the same day he created this AfD. I believe that pinging involved editors on an AfD nomination is correct protocol and I have done it myself in the past. If I have put this sub-section in the wrong area, an admin can feel free to move it. Jtbobwaysf (talk) 04:40, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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