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@Bravetheif IMHO this still doesn't pass notability, do you want more time to find strong WP:RS or should I ask for a third opinion based on its current form?

@Rolf h nelson I believe this topic is notable because it appears to be the protocol that pioneered the approach now used by the Google / Apple contact tracing project (citations in text) and the Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing project. The research group behind the protocol has also been in the news recently as part of the mounting criticism of the Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing project.[1] Bravetheif. It also appeared in a joint statement signed by hundreds of academics suggesting it, along with three other protocols be considered for use within Europe.[2][3] (talk) 06:15, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Take a look at the WP:Notability guidelines if you haven't already. If there's not much press nor independent scholarly commentary on the protocol itself, then there's not much value-add in having a wikipedia page; readers wanting to learn about the protocol should just look at the papers directly. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 06:48, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
There may not be as much press coverage about TCN as it's competing protocols, but it has received some. Most of it's press coverage has been in the context of CoEpi and CovidWatch, two apps implementing the protocol.[4]
This appears to be about the concept of TCN, and doesn't mention the specific "TCN protocol" covered in this article.

[5] [6]

It's gated, does it specifically talk about the TCN protocol?

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Did you mean a different article here? I don't get the relevance.

[8] It has also had independent scholarly commentary, such as what I linked. In particular it's "Temporary Contact Number" concept has had a fair amount of discussion by both academics and media,[9][10][11][12] since TCN is the only digital contact tracing protocol that uses unique identifiers for each encounter. The others, Google/Apple, BlueTrace, PEPP-PT, and DT-3T all use Ephemeral IDs shared across encounters. Bravetheif (talk) 09:36, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Two of those are university press releases, none of the four are peer-reviewed. Please review WP:RS if you haven't already. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 05:46, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Broadening it to Temporary Contact Numbers in general rather than just the TCN Protocol might help, but in that case a lot of the weakly-sourced content would still need to get gutted IMHO. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 05:49, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I would be happy to broaden it and move the page to Temporary Contact Numbers, but I made it specifically about the TCN protocol because the only usage of Temporary Contact Numbers is in the TCN protocol. I also did so because I am trying to document the major digital contact tracing protocols, and this is one developed by several major institutions and appears to have influenced the recent movement to decentralized reporting with the likes of DP-3T Bravetheif (talk) 17:53, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Your source [1] states "Most digital tracing apps will work like this: Your phone will generate a temporary contact number, known as a TCN". They FAIK may be using incorrect terminology and have meant something more broad than TCN, but if so, that mitigates against proposing it as a source in the first place. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 03:44, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Response to third opinion request:

The question appears to be whether the subject of this article is sufficiently notable to warrant inclusion in the encyclopaedia. Given the large number of sources provided for the article, I have undertaken a review of these with a view to understanding whether the sources go toward the establishment of notability. This review is included below.

Source Analysis
Source assessment table:
Source Independent? Reliable? Significant coverage? Count source toward GNG?
https://www.covid-watch.org/ No No No No
https://www.coepi.org/ ~ ~ No No
https://github.com/covid19risk/covidwatch-ios/commit/b520d1486d9d898dadeb15dd94fbbb16c0e1d6a1 No Github. No ~ No
https://blog.nordicsemi.com/getconnected/things-you-should-know-about-bluetooth-range ~ No No No
https://news.stanford.edu/2020/04/09/stanford-researchers-help-develop-privacy-focused-coronavirus-alert-app/ No ~ ~ No
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/29/world/coronavirus-pandemic-privacy-rights// Yes Yes No Not mentioned No
https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/13/what-privacy-preserving-coronavirus-tracing-apps-need-to-succeed/ Yes Yes ~ One paragraph mention in article about privacy implications of COVID-19 tracing apps ~ Partial
https://qz.com/1838625/how-bluetooth-could-power-a-global-experiment-in-contact-tracing/ Yes ~ Blog No Mentions Temporary Contact Number as part of an explanation of how digital tracing apps work. Not in-depth or significant coverage. No
https://www.covid-watch.org/article/ No No No One line mention referring reader back to GitHub. No
https://github.com/covid19risk/ No Github No ~ No
https://web.archive.org/web/20200410042947/https://www.covid-watch.org/blog/bluetooth/ No ~ No Not mentioned. No
https://www.covid-watch.org/news/ No No No List of media coverage of covid watch No
https://pact.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-PACT-protocol-specification-ver-0.1.pdf/ ? 404 error ? ? ? Unknown
https://news.mit.edu/2020/bluetooth-covid-19-contact-tracing-0409 No No No Not mentioned. No
https://github.com/TCNCoalition/TCN/commit/1b68b920db1fb42709c7c8eb28c3d5e10c76fc3c No No ~ No
https://github.com/covid19risk/covidwatch-ios/ No No ~ No
https://github.com/covid19risk/ No No ~ No
https://github.com/covid19risk/ No No ~ No
https://bluetrace.io/static/bluetrace_whitepaper-938063656596c104632def383eb33b3c.pdf ~ Authored by team behind "BlueTrace" Yes Journal article ~ Discusses temporary ID numbers as part of discussion of how BlueTrace works. ~ Partial
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-google-contact-tracing-strengths-weaknesses/ Yes Yes No Discusses the "TCN coalition", minimal about TCN protocol itself. No
https://thecurrencyanalytics.com/13404/zcash-privacy-preserving-contact-tracing-app-on-blockchain-the-temporary-contact-number-tcn-coalition/ Yes No Blog No One line about TCN protocol. No
https://github.com/TCNCoalition/TCN No No ~ No
https://pact.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-PACT-protocol-specification-ver-0.1.pdf No ~ No Not mentioned No
https://www.theinternetofthings.eu/aisshwarya-tiwar-covid-19-zcash-zec-and-tcn-developing-privacy-preserving-contact-tracing-app ~ Based entirely on source 25 No No No
https://btcmanager.com/covid-19-zcash-zec-tcn-privacy-preserving-contact-tracing-app/ ~ No No No
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340772290 Yes Research aggregator No No No
Lorenz Cuno Klopfenstein, Saverio Delpriori, Gian Marco Di Francesco, Riccardo Maldini, Brendan Dominic Paolini, Alessandro Bogliolo (2020). Digital Ariadne: Citizen Empowerment for Epidemic Control. arXiv:2004.07717. Bibcode:2020arXiv200407717C. ~ No Journal article - Not published. ? Unable to access. Appears not. No
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-04-stanford-privacy-focused-coronavirus-app.html Yes ~ ~ Paragraph as part of wider explanation on how the app works. ~ Partial
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2020/04/14/will-smartphones-help-us-keep-covid-19-under-control ~ No Blog / press release No One line explanation of temporary contact number. No
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid19-trace-together-mobile-app-contact-tracing-coronavirus-12560616 Yes Yes No Two line explanation of temporary contact number. No
https://www.insideprivacy.com/covid-19/covid-19-apps-and-websites-the-pan-european-privacy-preserving-proximity-tracing-initiative-and-guidance-by-supervisory-authorities/ Yes Yes No Not mentioned. No
https://www.zfnd.org/blog/private-contact-tracing-protocols-compared/ Yes No Blog ~ Appears to cover how data transfer and privacy protocols work technically. No
https://thecurrencyanalytics.com/13404/zcash-privacy-preserving-contact-tracing-app-on-blockchain-the-temporary-contact-number-tcn-coalition/ See Source 21 ? Unknown
https://www.cryptopolitan.com/contact-tracing-app-blockchain-based-zcash/ Yes Yes No Is covered. Not significantly. No
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22834959 ~ No Forum No No
https://covid-watch.org/press_releases/google_apple_press_release No No No No
https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2020/04/12/contact-tracing-in-the-real-world/ Yes No Blog No No
https://www.ledgerinsights.com/eu-parliament-covid-19-contact-tracing-decentralized/ Yes No Blog No No
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OQg2dxPu-x-RZzETlpV3lFa259Nrpk1J/view?usp=embed_facebook ~ No Joint letter No No
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2020/4/9/tcn-contact-tracing/ Yes No Personal blog ~ Technical explanation of how differing TCN protocols work. No
https://ncase.me/contact-tracing/ Yes No Webcomic explanation of how contact tracing works. No No
https://medium.com/@frankvolkel/tracetogether-under-the-hood-7d5e509aeb5d Yes ~ No No
https://github.com/TCNCoalition/TCN/blob/main/src/keys.rs No No ~ No
https://docs.rs/nom/2.2.1/nom/fn.le_u16.html No Code No No No
https://github.com/TCNCoalition/tcn-client-android/blob/develop/tcn-client-android/src/main/java/org/tcncoalition/tcnclient/TcnKeys.kt No No ~ No
https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSBeta/comments/fcww2x/feature_ios_134_beta_enables_ble_long_range/ ~ No Reddit No No
https://tcn-coalition.org/ No No No No
https://dcta-datarights.com/ Yes No No No
https://www.miragenews.com/will-smartphones-help-us-keep-covid-19-under-control/,%20https://www.miragenews.com/will-smartphones-help-us-keep-covid-19-under-control ? 404 Error ? ? ? Unknown
https://github.com/Co-Epi/app-android No No ~ No
https://www.covid-watch.org/ No No No No
This table may not be a final or consensus view; it may summarize developing consensus, or reflect assessments of a single editor. Created using {{source assess table}}.

In short, my view is that (based on the current sourcing) there is insufficient coverage in reliable sources which are independent of the subject to presume that the subject of this article is suitable for a standalone article.
Given this, I suggest there are a number of options available:

  1. Provide additional sources which go toward supporting significant coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject.
  2. Merge the content of this article into another, broader article which meets the threshold of notability.
  3. Nominate the article for deletion.

I will leave it to you to decide what to do next. I hope that this has been helpful. --Jack Frost (talk) 01:23, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please include the Covid Watch contributions as they appear on the digital contact tracing page:

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Covid Watch was the first[22] organization to develop[23] and open source[24][25] an anonymous Bluetooth digital contact tracing protocol, publishing their white paper on the subject on 20 March 2020.[26] The group was founded as a research collaboration between Stanford University and the University of Waterloo.[27][28][29] The protocol they developed, the CEN Protocol, later named the TCN Protocol, was first released on 17 March 2020.[30][31][32] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tinarwhite (talkcontribs) 18:49, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "Top Researchers Condemn Centralized COVID-19 Tracking Approach". Crypto Briefing. 2020-04-20. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  2. ^ Insights, Ledger (2020-04-21). "EU parliament demands COVID-19 contact tracing be decentralized. Academics concerned re privacy". Ledger Insights - enterprise blockchain. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  3. ^ "Joint Statement.pdf". Google Docs. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  4. ^ "How Bluetooth could unleash the world's largest experiment in digital contact tracing". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  5. ^ "Researchers working on 'contact tracing' say they welcome Apple and Google's help". Fortune. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  6. ^ "Researchers working on 'contact tracing' say they welcome Apple and Google's help". Fortune. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  7. ^ "Tough combined measures key in virus fight: study". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  8. ^ "Risky business: Scientists seek volunteers for 'CovidWatch' virus-tracking study". GeekWire. 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  9. ^ "Will Smartphones Help Us Keep COVID-19 Under Control?". news.gatech.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  10. ^ Lorenz Cuno Klopfenstein∗ , Saverio Delpriori∗ , Gian Marco Di Francesco, Riccardo Maldini, Brendan Dominic Paolini, Alessandro Bogliolo∗. "Digital Ariadne: Citizen Empowerment for Epidemic Control" (PDF). {{cite web}}: line feed character in |title= at position 17 (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ Nabben, Kelsie (2020-04-14). Trustless Approaches to Digital Infrastructure in the Crisis of COVID-19.
  12. ^ University, Stanford (2020-04-09). "Stanford researchers help develop privacy-focused coronavirus alert app". Stanford News. Retrieved 2020-04-22.

Neutrality

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I wrote the majority of this article and have no affiliation with the subject. I've written similar articles for competing protocols such as BlueTrace, Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing and Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing, with which I also have no affiliation. @ViperSnake151 could you please elaborate why you are disputing the neutrality of this article Bravetheif (talk) 14:27, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't believe it's neutral either, but personally I'd rather prioritize the notability issue first. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 19:43, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]