Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2025/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Verbosity
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was (see extended content) (non-admin closure) AlphaBeta135 talk 00:56, 4 April 2025 (UTC)
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Battle for Dream Island (BFDI) is an animated web series on YouTube created by Chinese-American twin brothers Cary Huang and Michael Huang. Even though the series has over 2 billion total views, you may be surprised that Wikipedia does not have an article for this series. This is because there are almost no independent reliable sources covering BFDI. Without them, an article on Wikipedia does not follow policies concerning neutral point of view and verifiability. Despite many attempts to find such sources, none have been found; however, sources have been found for another project of the Huang brothers, The Scale of the Universe. This essay explains why BFDI pages have been repeatedly deleted and why they are "protected from creation" so only administrators can create them. If you are new to Wikipedia, then this essay is for you. For experienced editors, this can also be a case study on Wikipedia's core policies and guidelines like notability, what Wikipedia is and is not, and disruptive editing. In fact, several users have used the term "WP:BFDI" to broadly reference the fact that a subject's popularity does not guarantee notability. That said, Wikipedia's fundamental goal is to be a "sum of all human knowledge", and Wikipedia may be considered incomplete due to BFDI's exclusion. You might be able to contact reputable publications or people who specialize in Internet culture and get them to cover the show. In the meantime, you can contribute to other wikis which may not necessarily have the same purposes as Wikipedia (see the list below). Note that this does not apply strictly to BFDI. Other subjects like Henry Stickmin and Inanimate Insanity (the latter is based on BFDI) may also be immensely popular, but also currently fail Wikipedia's notability standards for the same reasons. Other examples of non-notable topics that have been the subject of repeated attempts to create articles on them are listed at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Perennial requests. |
 | This Wikipedia webpage consists of digital material that is being kept here because it is considered by some contributors to be of a humorous nature. This digital material is not meant—in any way, shape or form—to be taken as anything which is generally serious in nature. |
[Hide this box] If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia's process for deleting articles from the encyclopedia, then you should take a look at all of these primers!
- Instructions for making contributions to pages where editors are discussing whether or not content should be removed from Wikipedia
- Introduction to the process of potentially getting articles and other content deleted from Wikipedia
- Guide for potentially getting articles and other content removed from Wikipedia (Index of terminology)
- Request assistance on how to deal with the fact that a deletion discussion has been started to determine the fate of the Wikipedia article that you have made
- Verbosity (contribute to this Wikipedia article | visit the talk page that belongs to this Wikipedia article | take a look at the list of edits that have been made to this Wikipedia article over the years | list of Wikipedia pages that link to this article | put this Wikipedia page on your watchlist | take a look at logs for this Wikipedia page | look at how many times this Wikipedia page has been viewed) – (Look at the deletion log for this Wikipedia article | look at the edits that have been made to this Wikipedia article since it has been nominated for deletion)
- (Search for references for this Wikipedia article: Google (Google Books · Google News · Google Scholar · Image files that have been uploaded under free content licenses · Wikipedia references) · Free English newspaper sources · Journal Storage · The Wikipedia Library)
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The first day of the month of April in the two-thousand and twenty-fifth year of our Lord- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.