Talk:Decentraland

Mana

It should be explained what mana (cryptocoin) is in this context. --Error (talk) 15:03, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Viral Tweet

Not sure if the section:

"The clip went viral and was widely mocked on social media. Zack Zwiezen, writing for Kotaku, unfavorably compared the clip to similar virtual concerts and parties in other platforms, and described the look of the game itself as similar to “a fictional game that was tossed together in a few hours for an episode of CSI: Whatever City""

is relevant to the article. Since the source is talking about a tweet, and not about Decentraland.

Eibriel (talk) 13:54, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

• • It’s relevant because DL is based on user-generated content, meaning the user creations and the game are sort of one and the same, and the tweet was negatively highlighted for both the user content and the game engine itself. Dronebogus (talk) 17:51, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Yes. Mainly, relevance is decided by reliable sources. This is why the section mentions that another outlet was prompted by the clip to look at the platform for themselves. If the purpose was just to dunk on this one rave, it would be petty gossip. Instead, the cited sources support that this is an example of how the platform is perceived on social media. That's something that disinterested readers might reasonably want to know. Grayfell (talk) 21:54, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Relevance of Deadmau5 concert

Copy/past from my talk page:

For future reference, this discussion is about this edit. To repeat the full edit summary for convenience: While the source does support this detail, it is a passing mention. Why, exactly, does this one event matter to the history of this project?

The source is this article from Voguebusiness.com, which is about twenty paragraphs long, give-or-take. Most of the article is about a completely separate set of events, scheduled to be held near the end of next month to coincide with fashion week (which is typically held later *this month*, but whatever).

The specific quote from that source is the first half of a longer paragraph: This is not Decentraland's first big event. In October, a four-day music festival with acts including Deadmaus and Autograf, among 80 other artists, attracted 40,000 people. Since then, there are up to 12 Decentraland events daily, with daily attendance records regardless of events, Hamilton says... (Hamilton is referring to Sam Hamilton, creative director at Decentraland Foundation).

So to answer your question, Wikipedia's guidelines advise against combining sources to imply anything which isn't supported by any source in isolation. This is known in Wikipedia jargon as WP:SYNTH, meaning synthesis of sources.

Using this source to imply that this number is important looks like synth to me. Vogue Business isn't talking about Decentraland because of the music festival, so we have to weigh this in that context. Further, attracted 40,000 people implies it was total over the full four days, and not a peak number at one time. If we're implying something about how popular Decentraland is, that's a very important distinction, but it's not the main problem with this approach. We shouldn't be implying anything at all. We should summarize what sources are actually saying. So why, exactly, is this specific concert significant?

The mention of Autograf also tells me that this blurb is coming from Hamilton, which casts it in a promotional light. To be blunt, Autograf are too obscure for this to make sense in this context. The readers of Vogue Business might reasonably know who Deadmaus is. I don't think many of them know who Autograf are, unless there is some fashion industry connection I'm not aware of. So why mention information that will only confuse readers like that?

Grayfell (talk) 21:48, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Academic material as reliable source

Is this book a reliable source ? Disruptive Technology, Legal Innovation, and the Future of Real Estate it has a chapter dedicated to Decentraland: Selling LAND in Decentraland: The Regime of Non-fungible Tokens on the Ethereum Blockchain Under the Digital Content Directive. Eibriel (talk) 23:26, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Good find! All sources are judged in context, so ultimately it would depend on how the source is used. The source appears generally reliable, though. Books published by respected academic publishers like Springer are highly regarded on Wikipedia. My only caution would be to use the chapter itself, not just the abstract.

If you do end up citing it, you should include the DOI (10.1007/978-3-030-52387-9_8) and/or the ISBN (978-3-030-52387-9) instead of using direct links to Springer's website. You can do this through the ref template (doi= and isbn=) or with standalone templates, such as doi:10.1007/978-3-030-52387-9_8 and ISBN 978-3-030-52387-9. Grayfell (talk) 20:34, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Positive, Neutral and Negative views on the Platform

Hi! I would like to point that I noted that even when the majority of sources have a Negative point of view on the platform, and those negative comments are weighted accordingly here (even with some WP:CITEKILL), the neutral and positive views are not. Contributions routinely remove Positive and Neutral statements, even tho they exists on the sources. I don't think zero is the correct weight for Positive and Neutral statements for this subject. Eibriel (talk) 17:02, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Agree with Eibriel. There seems to be a lot of negative content on the page that doesn't necessarily relate to the product itself, but rather reviews and perception of the product. Seems like the "reception" section could be cut down or edited to create a more balanced narrative. CroissantAvenue (talk)CroissantAvenueCroissantAvenue (talk) CroissantAvenue (talk) 18:45, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

WP:FALSEBALANCE, we are under no obligation to be “balanced” if press is largely negative. Dronebogus (talk) 01:28, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

NBC news Aug 2022

A new source talking about Decentraland, according to Perennial Sources it is a reliable source: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/metaverse-make-money-avatars-decentraland-rcna41336 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eibriel (talk • contribs) 14:38, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

After waiting some time, and since nobody did it, I've added the information Eibriel (talk) 01:31, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Reliable sources citing unreliable sources

Generally unreliable sources (like CoinDesk) should be avoided, but what about using reliable sources citing unreliable sources (The Verge citing CoinDesk). Is that ok? https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Decentraland&diff=1116217575&oldid=1116212419 Eibriel (talk) 03:03, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

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