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===[[:Provably fair algorithm]]===

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The result was '''delete'''. '''[[User:Seddon|Seddon]]''' ^{[[User talk:Seddon|talk]]} 20:34, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

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Fails notability test -- insufficient independent reliable sources that are about this topic itself. Seems largely to be a promotion for Dragonchain; note that the Bloomberg "article" cited is actually a Dragonchain press release. Another cited source, "provably.com" seems to be a website devoted to promoting the idea of provably fair gambling. And so on. -- [[User:The Anome|The Anome]] ([[User talk:The Anome|talk]]) 10:36, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

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*'''Delete''' - this originated as a neologism in cryptocurrency gambling; no usage I could find outside crypto gambling - [[User:David Gerard|David Gerard]] ([[User talk:David Gerard|talk]]) 11:07, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

*'''Keep''' - As the author, I didn't think much about the notability, as I had encountered its concepts a few years ''before'' its use in cryptocurrency. I would remind people that "crypto" has its roots in ... "crypto," as in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Theory_of_Cryptography/6g5nI71vgiIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Provably+fair%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA246&printsec=frontcover this link] to a 2005 crypto book that covers "provably fair" in connection to the "[[zero-knowledge proof]]" that forms a foundation for certain cryptocurrency [[blockchain]]s, and has some relevancy for nearly all of them. In my ignorance 6 years ago, some of this wasn't known. The article's poor state now is due to a lack of competent editors, not due to any notoriety of the topic. Look at the [[ZKP]] article, read the History section, which starts out as, "Zero-knowledge proofs were first conceived in 1985 (...)" Provably fair is just a subset of the ZKP. See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof#cite_note-26 This citation]. It appears the article needs to get an infusion of that sort of fundamental and less of the hodl community. And finally, [https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9570&context=penn_law_review scholarly research such as this] seems to be interested in virtually the same provably fair algorithms in the oversight of governments and their programming, like running a "provably accountable" visa lottery. [[User:Uruiamme|I like to saw logs!]] ([[User talk:Uruiamme|talk]]) 06:35, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

**At the moment it's a [[WP:TNT]]. I note also that [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Provably_fair_algorithm&oldid=655297560 as started by you, it was cited to a single bitcoin site.] - rather than being a high-quality article wrecked by bad editors as you posit, there's no evidence that this article was ever of acceptable quality in the past six years. This strongly suggests there is no reasonable prospect of organic improvement. If you could rebuild the hypothetical good article you posit using the claimed good and non-crypto-blog/non-press-release sources, that would be a start - [[User:David Gerard|David Gerard]] ([[User talk:David Gerard|talk]]) 10:28, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

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<small>Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, [[User:Eddie891|Eddie891]] <small>''^{[[User talk:Eddie891|Talk]]} _{[[Special:Contributions/Eddie891|Work]]}'' </small> 11:13, 31 August 2021 (UTC)</small><!-- from Template:XfD relist --></div>

* '''Delete'''. After looking at the history I can only agree with what [[User:David Gerard|David Gerard]] said in his reply to [[User:Uruiamme|I like to saw logs!]]. [[User:Athel cb|Athel cb]] ([[User talk:Athel cb|talk]]) 12:07, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

*'''Delete''' Simply put, looking at sources in the article and elsewhere, this does not meet the [[WP:GNG]] or any other notability guideline I can think of - coverage is either non-independent, insignificant, or unreliable. [[User:Ganesha811|Ganesha811]] ([[User talk:Ganesha811|talk]]) 13:32, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

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