David Gerard wrote:
Whats the field?
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).
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