Talk:Back Dorm Boys

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It is very important to independently source and cite the statement that the Blogger site has been "proven" to be a hoax. At the moment there is an indirect point within the text (not the appropriate way to verifiably source something on Wikipedia) to a blogger saying that he tracked an email from the author of the blog site and it was in Amsterdam - that doesn't "prove" anything, and the source is of questionable verifiability by my lights, given that this is an accusation of hoaxing, which is pretty strong. What do other editors think? I think it should be deleted until something a bit stronger can be sourced, or perhaps multiple blogger investigations with all evidence posted? NYDCSP 18:53, 20 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep The William Sledd article was deleted because certain uninformed admins didn't understand what it was all about. He, too, was a youtuber. I believe that these backward admins will be the undoing for Wikipedia. Let's not delete this page. Wikipedia already has a bad name for its admin bullying. James Allen Starkloff 75.89.17.161 00:06, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep When i came to wikipedia, it showed me real information, actually it was the only information i could find on the back dorm boys. It was when i typed in "chinese boys" it redirected me to the "back dorm boys". without this page, id have no where to look for new information on the backdorm boys, if you delete the page, then ill just make a new one :D
 * Keep Keep this page please, they are the only information I can find about them —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.75.229.195 (talk) 01:58, 5 March 2007 (UTC).

English blog controversy
I'm removed all reference to the controversy over the authorship of the English-language Back Dorm Boys blog on Blogger. I think it's pretty obvious looking at the Blogger site that it's a hoax, but the other blog linked to did not really PROVE this. Better evidence comes from plain old common sense. The BDB have a contract with Sina.com, so why would they have an English blog hosted by another site? Why would they devote their English blog primarily to linking to other English blogs, when their official Chinese blog mostly talked about their daily lives and school activities? But it's unlikely that solid proof will ever come to light unless the hoaxer decided to reveal himself, and I don't think we need to waste time and space on the issue here. More important is providing factual, sourced information about the BDB themselves. CKarnstein 18:24, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

But I don't really see the needs to remove the link to the blog itself. By leaving the site link, but giving description as a hoax, I think it's enough. But, the site itself actually giving much more than it's hoax. And, yes, your analysis is correct: their official Chinese blog mostly talked about their daily lives, so why they need to giving extra work to maintain another english blog if they don't fluent at? Hope many people will come and update this page so it's more up to date, closer and closer to the factual information from their official blog and official site. That's what I thought as the most important thing from a page like this. If there is someone who can gives more information about what the Back Dorm Boys recently do, where they live now, what their job, and what their current plan for the future, it'll be a very useful information for this page. And, maybe, it'll be better if we separate the detailed personal information about them (such as their family, their current location, their biodata, their hobbies, etc) in a "Huang Yi Xin" and a "Wei Wei" page. And for the English site blog, if there is anyone who afraid will get false information from this page, just because this page maybe created based on the hoax English site blog, don't worry, I've crosschecked with some of the official blog content of Back Dorm Boys using translator, and everything seems to be alright (means that this page's information still reliable). Th3 m4rt1n 18:33, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Hey, I have found an english interview page with the Back Dorm Boys, though it's in a blogger, I think it comes from a trustworthy source. Checkout the link section. So now, who are willing to further up completing the Back Dorm Boys information? Th3 m4rt1n 05:06, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Btw, I have already add some of external source. Isn't it time to review those source, and considering to remove the "lack of in-text citations" ? Th3 m4rt1n 05:20, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * There are more sources in the AfD discussion if you wanted to find some more. Pandacomics 22:59, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Photo
The article photo shows (and the caption names) 3 people, but the article only mentions two. I know nothing about this, perhaps someone with more knowledge should adress this? Random89 00:03, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
 * It's because during their webcam days, the third guy was there as comic relief. All he would do was play counterstrike in the back, apparently oblivious to the ridiculous lip synching by his roommates. Pandacomics 04:20, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 16:53, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

original
Can someone add links to the original uploads of their virals to youtube? or they've never uploaded to youtube and those videos were re-uploads by others from the beginning?Gendalv (talk) 19:58, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

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