Draft talk:Decrypt (website)

From the 8 sources cited, 2 come directly from Decrypt (used to talk about their editorial line and one subsidiary) and the others are all sorts of journalistic material. Also, the company is actually big inside its niche, it shouldn't be very polemical for the article to exist. My guess is that Wikipedia has a problem with blockchain articles due publicity, but I tried my best to use actual news sources to create the article. Notsonotoriousbig (talk) 16:50, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

:Two are linked directly to Decrypt, but two more are [https://www.businesswire.com/why-business-wire Business Newswire], a press release distribution site -- i.e., the material is written by Decrypt who paid to place it there; it's not at all third-party.

:Of the remaining four (which represents only three different outlets and authors), three are:

:*A product announcement

:*An investment announcement

:*A merger announcement

:...all of which can be found in our list of what is considered trivial coverage for corporations.

:The remaining piece is [https://www.adweek.com/media/decrypt-medias-new-nft-production-studio-is-generating-six-figure-revenues/ this Adweek piece that is mostly behind a paywall], so I cannot fully evaluate it, but it has at least the scent of being a reprocessed press release, and in any case would not be sufficient on its own. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 17:20, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

::Well, it's a company. Many Wikipedia articles about companies have sources just like that. A quick look at Forbes article will prove my point. Forbes is big enough to have independent sources actually talking about them, but take a look, many of the sources are self-announced as well. Announcements of new editors, fusions, sales, inaugurations, etc. etc. Notsonotoriousbig (talk) 17:33, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

:::Those things can be used as sources for article content (within certain limits), but they do not provide indication of notability (what we require to have an article at all), which is the point of the tag. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 17:45, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

::::@NatGertler Just added a source from Palgrave Macmillan. Notsonotoriousbig (talk) 18:04, 31 March 2025 (UTC)