[WikiEN-l] Re: How to bring back people who don't want to bother?

Wed Jan 11 16:02:01 UTC 2006

David Gerard wrote:

>>Whats the field?
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>Doll collectors, as I said. Significant hobby economically, these
>things go for hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars ... see
>http://www.denofangels.com/ and [[Super Dollfie]] (one of the most
>popular examples).
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Specifically, Asian Ball-Jointed Dolls, as opposed to porcelain or any
other types of dolls. They have only been around about 10 years, but
already they have gained so rapidly in popularity that a recent example
of a limited-edition doll sold on eBay for $5100.

The sort of information likely to be put into an ABJD wiki is going to
be histories of the companies producing the dolls, details of all the
different resin types and head molds produced, details of the most
widely-acclaimed face-up artists (people who paint the faces) and
customisers, and sections with how-tos on customisation and modding etc.
- not the sort of thing for Wikipedia, perhaps. But the fact remains
that basically the doll community has seen how specialists in other
fields have been treated by the rabid AfD morons who assume that because
*they've* not heard of something it must be not noteable and promptly
delete, and quite frankly they fail to see why they should even bother
touching the doll-related articles in WP when instead they can just
create their own wiki, free of the current poisonous WP politics and
petty instruction-creep that at present seems, quite frankly, endemic
throughout WP at present and incidentally is the main reason I've pretty
much gone on indefinite hiatus from both editing and from wikien-l
personally.

-a