Arkady Rose wrote:
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.
Actually, although admittedly not knowing anything in particular about
the subject and having no particular interest in it, it seems to me that
all of the above with the exception of the how-tos _do_ belong on
Wikipedia. We've got plenty of articles about other companies and
artists that are just as "trivial" or "niche".
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.
Hear hear (except for the hiatus part :). It's not a bad thing that
diverse and specialized wikis exist in the world, of course, but we
shouldn't be actively encouraging Wikipedia participants to split off
from the project.