We write the way a kind, well-read ARMY would write to another ARMY. We are accurate, never breathless. We translate Korean carefully, credit translators, link to official sources, and never pretend we are official. We do not gossip. We do not invent. We do not push. Every fact we publish is anchored to a source we can point you to, and every claim we cannot anchor stays off the page until it can be.
Every fact on the site is tagged with one of five tiers. The tier is visible to readers as a small chip next to the claim. The chip tooltip shows the source URL and the date we last checked it.
| Tier | Visible label | Examples of allowed sources |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Official | BIGHIT MUSIC, HYBE, Weverse, BANGTANTV, member official accounts, the official tour site (btsworldtourofficial.com), BTS Linktree. |
| 2 | Reputable media | Billboard, Variety, AP, BBC, NPR, Reuters, Forbes, NYT, Rolling Stone, Yonhap, KED Global, UNICEF, UN. |
| 3 | Established fan resource | BANGTAN SUBS, doolset, BTS Archive, US BTS ARMY, ARMY Project 529, always credited and linked back to the original work. |
| 4 | Fan culture / Fan interpretation | Widely-accepted fan lore that lives in the fandom rather than in official text, Pomichodai, BTS o'clock, the I-Need-U-era hair dye story. Always labeled "fan culture." |
| 5 | Unverified | Rumors, anonymous tips, screenshots without provenance, machine-translated quotes without a verified source. Reserved for internal admin pages only, never published on the public site. |
Default behavior: if a claim doesn't have a source, it doesn't ship.
The tier sets the confidence label that appears with the claim. Here is what each label looks like in practice.
The list below is non-negotiable. If a draft contains any of these, it doesn't ship, no matter how much traffic it would bring.
Fan translators, archivists, photographers, illustrators, and researchers built the public memory of BTS. We will always credit you by name (or chosen handle), link to your original post or project, and ask permission before quoting more than a sentence. If we missed a credit, used your work without asking, or you want your name removed, check the correction log and intake status. The verified contact route is not live yet, so this page does not publish a role address or promise a response time. We do not repost subtitle archives, paid translations, or anything a creator has explicitly asked the fandom not to re-host.
The digital-card feature locally serves seven official BIGHIT MUSIC member profile portraits and one official OT7 promotional portrait. Every revealed card links to the official profile source; the underlying rights remain with their rights holders. Elsewhere we use locally served decorative stage artwork, official social embeds, privacy-enhanced official YouTube video, and small album covers for editorial commentary. We do not use AI to imitate a recognizable member's face or present generated imagery as a real photograph. A missing credit or valid removal request is treated as a correction and recorded transparently.
We get things wrong. When that happens, the goal is to fix the page quickly, credit the reader who flagged it, and leave a public trail so the correction is verifiable.
The public log remains available, but intake is paused until domain email delivery and a verified response path are tested. The status page explains what evidence to keep in the meantime.
View correction log and intake statusMaterial changes to this policy, new tiers, banned-content additions, credit-process updates, are recorded here in date-stamped entries so the editorial standard itself stays auditable.
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