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Battle for Dream Island (BFDI) is an animated web series on YouTube created by American-Chinese twin brothers Cary and Michael Huang. Despite the series having over 1.8 billion total views,[a] you may be surprised that Wikipedia does not have an article for this series. This is because of a lack of independent and reliable sources covering BFDI. Without them, there would be no other way for an article to follow Wikipedia's neutral point of view and verifiability policies. 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 it. 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 major policies like notability, what Wikipedia is and is not, and disruptive editing.
That said, Wikipedia's fundamental goal is to be a "sum of all human knowledge", and Wikipedia is incomplete due to BFDI's exclusion. You might be able to contact reputable publications or people which specialize in Internet culture, and get them to cover the show. Meanwhile, feel free to contribute to other wikis with purposes that are different from Wikipedia's; see the list below.
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