Disclosure: I work as an unpaid technical writer with the BitBay open source software development team.

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by KylieTastic was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage (not just mere mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies, the golden rule and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners and Help:Introduction to referencing/1), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

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KylieTastic (talk) 16:12, 11 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Tradersnow! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! KylieTastic (talk) 16:12, 11 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Draft:BitBay, 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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A tag has been placed on BitBay (BAY) - Peer-to-peer Contracting Platform, 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.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:21, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for message. Firstly, you need to sort out the title of your article. You can have the name or an acronym (with a redirect from the other), but not both, and you cannot include a description, so the correct title is just Bitbay, with redirects to that from reasonable alternative names if you wish.

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 software notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the software company, 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 company claims or interviewing its management. You gave two references, one of which was just the developer bigging up his product, the other appeared to be paid-for content, or at best an advertisement plus a press release. So no proper sources. You asked if industry sources can be used; all I can do is refer you to the independent verifiable sources link. Basically, if the Washington Post or a major industry magazine carry a proper news item (not a press release or interview), you can use that, anything else is likely to be suspect
• I can't see anything that indicates how this product meets any of the notability criteria linked above.
• it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. The text I deleted contained only a description of what the product is claimed to do, which despite your talk page claim is what advertising means.
• Your editing suggests that you have an obvious conflict of interest, and you must declare it. If you work directly or indirectly for the company, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly. Regardless, if you are paid directly or indirectly by the organisation you are writing about, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Tradersnow. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Tradersnow|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article. You must also reply to the COI request above Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:50, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Quite a few points

• The article title should be just "BitBay" with redirects from any acronyms, and it should not include the description of what it does, see above
• You need to make any COI declaration on your user page at [[User:Tradersnow. If you are not paid in any way, you don't have to use the template, but you do need to be transparent about your connection.
• You are not required to create the article as a draft initially, although it's recommended and gives a degree of protection. As it is, what you write will be evaluated as it is posted. If you write as a draft you can move it to article space yourself if you wish, although again that's not recommended
• Notability requirements are pretty inflexible. For example, we often get non-profits, particularly churches and charities, assuming that the standards are different for them, that's not the case. However, I note that there is some wriggle room for open source apps in terms of sourcing
• Your text will need to make it clear how it meets the notability criteria that you helpfully linked
• A third-party book is nearly always acceptable. Less formal sources you need to be a bit more careful with. Something that is basically one person's opinion probably won't do, something factual or representing a degree of consensus is safer. As you realise, the whole cryptocurrency and blockchain area is under general sanctions, so you can expect admins and others to be sceptical about anything in this area, so make sure your text and sourcing is as good as you can.
• A purely grammatical point, take care with its/it's

good luck Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:12, 26 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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MER-C 16:45, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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