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The result was delete. ✗ plicit 23:51, 4 December 2021 (UTC) reply

List of cryptocurrencies by market capitalization

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An intrinsically unmaintainable list. The list is explicitly constructed as a digest of the site CoinMarketCap - an unreliable source, run by a cryptocurrency exchange, and widely regarded as questionable even inside crypto. The usual alternative is Coingecko, but that isn't much better, and still isn't an RS. But even restricted to RSes, this list would be all but unmaintainable per the sourcing requirements of WP:LISTVERIFY - RSes rarely note market cap of cryptos (because it's a publicity number, not a useful number in trading), when they do it's almost never timely, and as a footnote on this article explicitly notes: "Cryptocurrency prices fluctuate rapidly, so this data may be significantly out of date." If you want a non-RS list of cryptos in order of a promotional number, then going to the front page of CoinMarketCap is a strictly superior and more timely alternative. David Gerard ( talk) 12:49, 27 November 2021 (UTC) reply

I can change the source. Yahoo has also a list of cryptocurrencies by market cap. The topic is clearly important. Crypto is volatile, but so are stocks. There is also a list of companies by market cap. I can update this list monthly. This list is not unmaintainable.-- Afus199620 ( talk) 23:42, 27 November 2021 (UTC) reply
The Yahoo page is literally a reprint of the CoinMarketCap data, it says so right there on the Yahoo page. Yahoo News is notorious for reprinting any old rubbish, and crypto reprints are no more an RS than the original source - David Gerard ( talk) 17:19, 28 November 2021 (UTC) reply
  • Delete. Market cap constantly changes. Reliable sources rarely mention it. This is going to be hopelessly out of date or based on unreliable sources with arbitrary updating policy. Retimuko ( talk) 17:31, 28 November 2021 (UTC) reply
  • Delete. Agree with those above me. At least the List of public corporations by market capitalization breaks the list down in a manner that's manageable; the way this page is currently set up, I cannot see any encyclopedic value. Pegnawl ( talk) 22:13, 28 November 2021 (UTC) reply
  • Keep I think it's good article to have. Even if those source are unreliable, these numbers are public data and can be verified from other sources. So perhaps the article needs just better sourcing. Jaxarnolds ( talk) 19:53, 1 December 2021 (UTC) reply
I have now added alternate sources for the top 7. However, no point to do it, if its gonna get deleted, so I will wait. But as you can see alternate sources can easily be found. Jaxarnolds ( talk) 20:17, 1 December 2021 (UTC) reply
Unless you can produce this better sourcing - better than hastily-written Motley Fool blog posts - then you're not refuting that it's presently unsourceable to the requirements of WP:LISTVERIFY, and this "keep" isn't policy/guideline-based - David Gerard ( talk) 21:27, 1 December 2021 (UTC) reply
Please note that this is not the type of article where you need in-depth articles for support. All we need is some articles to verify the numbers and there are plenty out there. We can Even use Yahoo finance charts, such as [1]. Would you be OK, if I added Yahoo Finance chart links to each line? Jaxarnolds ( talk) 01:09, 2 December 2021 (UTC) reply
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