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Sources

Hello , I've seen them , checked many of them, we cant use sources sponcered by IHOK if I use them other editors will revert them. I'm still searching for more sources, thanks. Spada II ♪♫ (talk) 14:01, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you.

Talk page guidelines

Hello. Per WP:TPG, please sign all comments and post new comments to the bottom of talk pages. I have adjusted your comment at Talk:Cardano (cryptocurrency platform) accordingly. Thank you. Grayfell (talk) 04:31, 30 November 2020 (UTC) Hello. Thanks for that. I'd probably just come from a page that asked for comments at the top! Nice Batten illustration! IOHKwriter (talk) 17:04, 3 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Ouroboros

Hi there IOHKwriter - I was wondering if you (and others more knowledgeable) would be willing to expand upon the Ouroboros (protocol) page. It could do with some more substance and backed up with additional reliable references :) (as per wiki guidelines to avoid any potential issues!) Bob (talk) 17:06, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Bob, I work for IOHK so am deemed to have a conflict of interest and do not work on pages. Instead, I make occasional suggestions and keep an eye on how Wikipedia's anti-blockchain stance is being implemented. For example, I have just raised the general issue of not being able to use any crypto indices on the cryptocurrency talk page. I was pleased to note that the Cardano page had a million visits within a year of being reinstated, and any mention of IOHK or Cardano is no longer automatically treated as spam. IOHKwriter (talk) 16:28, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you look back to the hatchet job that was done on Ouroboros page in Nov 2020, you'll see that even links to published journal papers were deleted; and no attempt was made to find published versions of the preprint links. A paper published in the proceedings of the 2018 [[1]] SIGSAC conference was described as "unreliable and non-peer-reviewed". You would have thought a paper setting out the theory behind Ethereum 2.0 with Buterin as an author would be worth making an exception, but no, that was cut too. Similarly, you would have thought the spat between Buterin and Kiayias over Ouroboros/Casper would be worth considering. It appears to be Wikipedia policy only to link to published journal/book papers, even though ordinary readers usually have no access to these expensive sources. Links to the preprints, which are usually freely available, are deleted. Some of these could be revisited, though you will probably find the editors who did the slashing are aggressive in their response.IOHKwriter (talk) 17:09, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]