# Talk:One Million Checkboxes

OMCB was rickrolled after the owner of the site eliminated the rate limit. Can we find any sources that mention this? He talks about it in the video on YouTube, which I tried to link but a filter blocked me from posting. It is titled "The secret inside One Million Checkboxes". And yes, I know YouTube is not considered a reliable source. Can we find a reliable source that talks about this, as I believe the rickroll to be significant, and should be included in the Wikipedia article here. Thanks. 72.14.126.22 (talk) 18:44, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello -- I agree that the material in the blog post "The secret inside One Million Checkboxes" is interesting, and I would like to include it, too.  But I cannot find a reliable source that talks about it, and I don't think we can cite the blog. Cloud atlas (talk) 14:29, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Update: there is now a reliable source talking about hacking, but it mentions the gif of Jake Gyllenhaal, but not the rick roll.  I added the Gyllenhaal material to the article. Cloud atlas (talk) 19:24, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

I feel like the blog would count as an ultimate reference without being original research at any point. The golang port is a major thing for people who do Computer science. 
Another thing is when the blog says something was added as a feature, its not really original research. ShowierData9978 (talk) 04:14, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello @ShowierData9978 -- thank you for working on this article and for starting a discussion about it.  On your prompting, I re-read policies on sources.  The blog is a self-published source, and the policy about that is here: Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published sources (online and paper)
You can see that under most circumstances, self-published sources are not permissible, but they are permissible when they are writing about themselves.  In other words, the developer's blog is reliable when it is talking about One Million Checkboxes, but not on some unrelated topic (like if the developer were blogging about sports or music).  So therefore, I do think it's okay to source material from the blog, but I think it would be best if when that information is included, we precede it with "According to Royalty's blog..." so that readers know that it is from a self-published source.  Does that sound okay to you?  If so, it would be great if you could add what you think is the relevant information, and let me know when you have and I'll check it out.
In the meantime, I've acquired a bunch of images from the developer the developer has uploaded a bunch of images to Commons that I'm going to add to the article now. Cloud atlas (talk) 03:01, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
The images you've added are great! Thank you. 72.14.126.22 (talk) 03:29, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
Yeah that sounds good. I'll add that to the article in a bit. ShowierData9978 (talk) 13:53, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

This could probably be considered a social experiment. I think it would fit under Category:Group_processes or a subgroup.
The sidebar should also have the end date on it. User:Showier2 (talk) 20:58, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

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