https://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Ajay&feed=atom&action=historyAjay - Revision history2024-03-29T05:42:52ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.33.1https://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Ajay&diff=168088&oldid=prevMlo at 02:00, 11 November 20212021-11-11T02:00:04Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mundane APAs predate those in [[fandom]], and at least two of the three –- [[AAPA]] and [[NAPA]] (or American APA and National APA) –- are still in existence. The [[United APA]] (UAPA) disintegrated. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published a "paper" (as they call their [[fanzines]]) called ''[[The Conservative]]'' for them that predates the first real fanzine (or the first real [[sf]] [[prozine]], for that matter).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mundane APAs predate those in [[fandom]], and at least two of the three –- [[AAPA]] and [[NAPA <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(Mundane)</ins>]] (or American APA and National APA) –- are still in existence. The [[United APA]] (UAPA) disintegrated. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published a "paper" (as they call their [[fanzines]]) called ''[[The Conservative]]'' for them that predates the first real fanzine (or the first real [[sf]] [[prozine]], for that matter).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mundane [[APA]]s differ from [[fandom]]'s in two important respects –- they do not have either [1] minimum [[activity requirements]] or [2] a maximum number of members. The vast majority of mundane apa members over the years have been hobby printers as opposed to hobby writers. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published 13 issues of ''[[The Conservative]]'' for the [[United Amateur Press Association|United]] ([[UAPA]]) and [[National Amateur Press Association]] (NAPA) between 1915 and 1923, and thus indirectly influenced [[Donald A. Wollheim]] and [[John B. Michel]] to found [[fandom]]'s first [[apa]], the [[Fantasy Amateur Press Association]] ([[FAPA]]), which is still churning out mailings. Over the years, a number of [[actifans]] have belonged to and participated in the [[mundane]] [[apas]] and quite a few people who started in ajay made their way to the [[fan]] [[apas]]. As a result, many [[actifans]] (beginning primarily with [[Francis T. Laney]] in the mid-1940s) prefer to be called "amateur journalists" or "[[amateur]]s" rather than "[[fans]]" (as [[Hugo Gernsback]] designated us).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mundane [[APA]]s differ from [[fandom]]'s in two important respects –- they do not have either [1] minimum [[activity requirements]] or [2] a maximum number of members. The vast majority of mundane apa members over the years have been hobby printers as opposed to hobby writers. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published 13 issues of ''[[The Conservative]]'' for the [[United Amateur Press Association|United]] ([[UAPA]]) and [[National Amateur Press Association]] (NAPA) between 1915 and 1923, and thus indirectly influenced [[Donald A. Wollheim]] and [[John B. Michel]] to found [[fandom]]'s first [[apa]], the [[Fantasy Amateur Press Association]] ([[FAPA]]), which is still churning out mailings. Over the years, a number of [[actifans]] have belonged to and participated in the [[mundane]] [[apas]] and quite a few people who started in ajay made their way to the [[fan]] [[apas]]. As a result, many [[actifans]] (beginning primarily with [[Francis T. Laney]] in the mid-1940s) prefer to be called "amateur journalists" or "[[amateur]]s" rather than "[[fans]]" (as [[Hugo Gernsback]] designated us).</div></td></tr>
</table>Mlohttps://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Ajay&diff=163015&oldid=prevLeah Zeldes Smith at 10:20, 24 August 20212021-08-24T10:20:56Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Ajay''' (a.k.a. "A.J." or "ayjay," for “[[Amateur Journalism]]”) is the name which participants in [[mundane]] [[amateur press associations]], aka [[mapas]], gave their hobby, which predates and partially inspired [[fandom]]'s [[apas]]. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Ajay''' (a.k.a. "A.J." or "ayjay," for “[[Amateur Journalism]]”) is the name which participants in [[mundane]] [[amateur press associations]], aka [[mapas]], gave their hobby, which predates and partially inspired [[fandom]]'s [[apas]]. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mundane APAs predate those in [[fandom]], and at least two of the three –- [[AAPA]] and [[NAPA]] (or <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</del>American APA<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</del>National APA<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</del>) –- are still in existence. The [[United APA]] (UAPA) disintegrated. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published a "paper" (as they call their [[fanzines]]) called ''[[The Conservative]]'' for them that predates the first real fanzine (or the first real [[sf]] [[prozine]], for that matter).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mundane APAs predate those in [[fandom]], and at least two of the three –- [[AAPA]] and [[NAPA]] (or American APA and National APA) –- are still in existence. The [[United APA]] (UAPA) disintegrated. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published a "paper" (as they call their [[fanzines]]) called ''[[The Conservative]]'' for them that predates the first real fanzine (or the first real [[sf]] [[prozine]], for that matter).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mundane [[APA]]s differ from [[fandom]]'s in two important respects –- they do not have either [1] minimum [[activity requirements]] or [2] a maximum number of members. The vast majority of mundane apa members over the years have been hobby printers as opposed to hobby writers. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published 13 issues of ''[[The Conservative]]'' for the [[United Amateur Press Association|United]] ([[UAPA]]) and [[National Amateur Press Association]] (NAPA) between 1915 and 1923, and thus indirectly influenced [[Donald A. Wollheim]] and [[John B. Michel]] to found [[fandom]]'s first [[apa]], the [[Fantasy Amateur Press Association]] ([[FAPA]]), which is still churning out mailings. Over the years, a number of [[actifans]] have belonged to and participated in the [[mundane]] [[apas]] and quite a few people who started in ajay made their way to the [[fan]] [[apas]]. As a result, many [[actifans]] (beginning primarily with [[Francis T. Laney]] in the mid-1940s) prefer to be called "amateur journalists" or "<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">amateurs</del>" rather than "[[fans]]" (as [[Hugo Gernsback]] designated us).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mundane [[APA]]s differ from [[fandom]]'s in two important respects –- they do not have either [1] minimum [[activity requirements]] or [2] a maximum number of members. The vast majority of mundane apa members over the years have been hobby printers as opposed to hobby writers. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published 13 issues of ''[[The Conservative]]'' for the [[United Amateur Press Association|United]] ([[UAPA]]) and [[National Amateur Press Association]] (NAPA) between 1915 and 1923, and thus indirectly influenced [[Donald A. Wollheim]] and [[John B. Michel]] to found [[fandom]]'s first [[apa]], the [[Fantasy Amateur Press Association]] ([[FAPA]]), which is still churning out mailings. Over the years, a number of [[actifans]] have belonged to and participated in the [[mundane]] [[apas]] and quite a few people who started in ajay made their way to the [[fan]] [[apas]]. As a result, many [[actifans]] (beginning primarily with [[Francis T. Laney]] in the mid-1940s) prefer to be called "amateur journalists" or "<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[amateur]]s</ins>" rather than "[[fans]]" (as [[Hugo Gernsback]] designated us).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"Amateurish" remains a pejorative but "amateur" comes from the Latin amare, which means "to love," making amateurs people who do things for the love of doing them. And, paraphrasing [[Walt Willis]], those who hold that professionals are invariably superior to amateurs are doomed to prefer the ministrations of gigolos and prostitutes to those of willing and imaginative lovers.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"Amateurish" remains a pejorative but "amateur" comes from the Latin amare, which means "to love," making amateurs people who do things for the love of doing them. And, paraphrasing [[Walt Willis]], those who hold that professionals are invariably superior to amateurs are doomed to prefer the ministrations of gigolos and prostitutes to those of willing and imaginative lovers.</div></td></tr>
</table>Leah Zeldes Smithhttps://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Ajay&diff=163013&oldid=prevLeah Zeldes Smith at 09:26, 24 August 20212021-08-24T09:26:14Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Ajay''' (a.k.a. "A.J." or "ayjay," for “[[Amateur Journalism]]”) is the name which participants in [[mundane]] [[amateur press associations]], aka [[mapas]], gave their hobby, which predates and partially inspired [[fandom]]'s [[apas]]. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Ajay''' (a.k.a. "A.J." or "ayjay," for “[[Amateur Journalism]]”) is the name which participants in [[mundane]] [[amateur press associations]], aka [[mapas]], gave their hobby, which predates and partially inspired [[fandom]]'s [[apas]]. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Amateur journalism''' Technically includes any form of publishing where monetary gain is not the primary motive. With us, it means publishing [[fanzines]] of any type or, by extension, writing for and illustrating them. [[Fans]] sometimes use this valuable expression when asked what their hobby is by someone who wouldn't understand about [[fandom]]; and, indeed, [[fan activity]] is amateur journalism -- plus. The manufacture and distribution of our [[mimeo|mimeoed]] and [[Spirit Duplication|dittoed]] leaflets is one of the most important characteristics of our hobby </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Amateur journalism''' Technically includes any form of publishing where monetary gain is not the primary motive. With us, it means publishing [[fanzines]] of any type or, by extension, writing for and illustrating them. [[Fans]] sometimes use this valuable expression when asked what their hobby is by someone who wouldn't understand about [[fandom]]; and, indeed, [[fan activity]] is amateur journalism -- plus. The manufacture and distribution of our [[mimeo|mimeoed]] and [[Spirit Duplication|dittoed]] leaflets is one of the most important characteristics of our hobby </div></td></tr>
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</table>Leah Zeldes Smithhttps://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Ajay&diff=163012&oldid=prevLeah Zeldes Smith at 09:21, 24 August 20212021-08-24T09:21:51Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mundane [[APA]]s differ from [[fandom]]'s in two important respects –- they do not have either [1] minimum [[activity requirements]] or [2] a maximum number of members. The vast majority of mundane apa members over the years have been hobby printers as opposed to hobby writers. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published 13 issues of ''[[The Conservative]]'' for the [[United Amateur Press Association|United]] ([[UAPA]]) and [[National Amateur Press Association]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">s </del>(<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</del>NAPA<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</del>) between 1915 and 1923, and thus indirectly influenced [[Donald A. Wollheim]] and [[John B. Michel]] to found [[fandom]]'s first [[apa]], the [[Fantasy Amateur Press Association]] ([[FAPA]]), which is still churning out mailings. Over the years, a number of [[actifans]] have belonged to and participated in the [[mundane]] [[apas]] and quite a few people who started in ajay made their way to the [[fan]] [[apas]]. As a result, many [[actifans]] (beginning primarily with [[Francis T. Laney]] in the mid-1940s) prefer to be called "amateur journalists" or "amateurs" rather than "[[fans]]" (as [[Hugo Gernsback]] designated us).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mundane [[APA]]s differ from [[fandom]]'s in two important respects –- they do not have either [1] minimum [[activity requirements]] or [2] a maximum number of members. The vast majority of mundane apa members over the years have been hobby printers as opposed to hobby writers. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published 13 issues of ''[[The Conservative]]'' for the [[United Amateur Press Association|United]] ([[UAPA]]) and [[National Amateur Press Association]] (NAPA) between 1915 and 1923, and thus indirectly influenced [[Donald A. Wollheim]] and [[John B. Michel]] to found [[fandom]]'s first [[apa]], the [[Fantasy Amateur Press Association]] ([[FAPA]]), which is still churning out mailings. Over the years, a number of [[actifans]] have belonged to and participated in the [[mundane]] [[apas]] and quite a few people who started in ajay made their way to the [[fan]] [[apas]]. As a result, many [[actifans]] (beginning primarily with [[Francis T. Laney]] in the mid-1940s) prefer to be called "amateur journalists" or "amateurs" rather than "[[fans]]" (as [[Hugo Gernsback]] designated us).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"Amateurish" remains a pejorative but "amateur" comes from the Latin amare, which means "to love," making amateurs people who do things for the love of doing them. And, paraphrasing [[Walt Willis]], those who hold that professionals are invariably superior to amateurs are doomed to prefer the ministrations of gigolos and prostitutes to those of willing and imaginative lovers.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"Amateurish" remains a pejorative but "amateur" comes from the Latin amare, which means "to love," making amateurs people who do things for the love of doing them. And, paraphrasing [[Walt Willis]], those who hold that professionals are invariably superior to amateurs are doomed to prefer the ministrations of gigolos and prostitutes to those of willing and imaginative lovers.</div></td></tr>
</table>Leah Zeldes Smithhttps://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Ajay&diff=162730&oldid=prevMlo at 15:53, 22 August 20212021-08-22T15:53:59Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Ajay''' (a.k.a. "A.J." or "ayjay," for “[[Amateur Journalism]]”) is the name which participants in [[mundane]] [[amateur press associations]], aka [[mapas]], gave their hobby, which predates and partially inspired [[fandom]]'s [[apas]]. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Ajay''' (a.k.a. "A.J." or "ayjay," for “[[Amateur Journalism]]”) is the name which participants in [[mundane]] [[amateur press associations]], aka [[mapas]], gave their hobby, which predates and partially inspired [[fandom]]'s [[apas]]. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''Amateur journalism''' Technically includes any form of publishing where monetary gain is not the primary motive. With us, it means publishing </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fanzines</ins>]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">of any type or, by extension, writing </ins>for <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and illustrating them. [[Fans]] sometimes use this valuable expression when asked what their hobby is by someone who wouldn't understand about </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fandom</ins>]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">; and, indeed, [[fan activity]] is amateur journalism -- plus</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The manufacture and distribution of our [[mimeo|mimeoed]] and [[Spirit Duplication|dittoed]] leaflets is one of the most important characteristics of our hobby </ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Mlohttps://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Ajay&diff=147903&oldid=prevLeah Zeldes Smith at 08:59, 18 February 20212021-02-18T08:59:35Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Ajay''' (a.k.a. "A.J." or "ayjay," for “[[Amateur Journalism]]”) is the name which participants in [[mundane]] [[amateur press associations]], aka <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</del>mapas<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''' </del>gave their hobby, which predates and partially inspired [[fandom]]'s [[apas]]. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Ajay''' (a.k.a. "A.J." or "ayjay," for “[[Amateur Journalism]]”) is the name which participants in [[mundane]] [[amateur press associations]], aka <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>mapas<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>gave their hobby, which predates and partially inspired [[fandom]]'s [[apas]]. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
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</table>Leah Zeldes Smithhttps://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Ajay&diff=147899&oldid=prevLeah Zeldes Smith at 08:55, 18 February 20212021-02-18T08:55:28Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Ajay''' (a.k.a. "A.J." or "ayjay," for “[[Amateur Journalism]]”) is the name which participants in [[mundane]] [[amateur press associations]] gave their hobby, which predates and partially inspired [[fandom]]'s [[apas]]. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Ajay''' (a.k.a. "A.J." or "ayjay," for “[[Amateur Journalism]]”) is the name which participants in [[mundane]] [[amateur press associations]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, aka '''mapas''' </ins>gave their hobby, which predates and partially inspired [[fandom]]'s [[apas]]. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mundane APAs predate those in [[fandom]], and at least two of the three –- [[AAPA]] and [[NAPA]] (or [[American APA]] and [[National APA]]) –- are still in existence. The [[United APA]] (UAPA) disintegrated. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published a "paper" (as they call their [[fanzines]]) called ''[[The Conservative]]'' for them that predates the first real fanzine (or the first real [[sf]] [[prozine]], for that matter).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mundane APAs predate those in [[fandom]], and at least two of the three –- [[AAPA]] and [[NAPA]] (or [[American APA]] and [[National APA]]) –- are still in existence. The [[United APA]] (UAPA) disintegrated. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published a "paper" (as they call their [[fanzines]]) called ''[[The Conservative]]'' for them that predates the first real fanzine (or the first real [[sf]] [[prozine]], for that matter).</div></td></tr>
</table>Leah Zeldes Smithhttps://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Ajay&diff=142785&oldid=prevLeah Zeldes Smith at 17:48, 28 December 20202020-12-28T17:48:52Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Ajay''' (a.k.a. "A.J." or "ayjay," for [[Amateur Journalism]]) is the name which participants in [[mundane]] [[amateur press associations]] gave their hobby, which predates and partially inspired [[fandom]]'s [[apas]]. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(Did you mean [[A. J. Budrys]]?)</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mundane APAs predate those in [[fandom]], and at least two of the three –- [[AAPA]] and [[NAPA]] (or [[American APA]] and [[National APA]]) –- are still in existence. The [[United APA]] (UAPA) disintegrated. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published a "paper" (as they call their [[fanzines]]) called ''[[The Conservative]]'' for them that predates the first real fanzine (or the first real [[sf]] [[prozine]], for that matter).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mundane APAs predate those in [[fandom]], and at least two of the three –- [[AAPA]] and [[NAPA]] (or [[American APA]] and [[National APA]]) –- are still in existence. The [[United APA]] (UAPA) disintegrated. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published a "paper" (as they call their [[fanzines]]) called ''[[The Conservative]]'' for them that predates the first real fanzine (or the first real [[sf]] [[prozine]], for that matter).</div></td></tr>
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</table>Leah Zeldes Smithhttps://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Ajay&diff=135789&oldid=prevLeah Zeldes Smith at 08:52, 7 October 20202020-10-07T08:52:31Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>(a.k.a. "A.J." or "ayjay," for [[Amateur Journalism]])</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''Ajay''' </ins>(a.k.a. "A.J." or "ayjay," for [[Amateur Journalism]]) <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">is the name which participants in [[mundane]] [[amateur press associations]] gave their hobby, which predates and partially inspired [[fandom]]'s [[apas]]. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">name which participants in </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mundane</del>]] [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">amateur press associations</del>]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">gave </del>their <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hobby, which </del>predates <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and partially inspired </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fandom</del>]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'s </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">apas</del>]]. Mundane [[APA]]s differ from [[fandom]]'s in two important respects –- they do not have either [1] minimum [[activity requirements]] or [2] a maximum number of members. The vast majority of mundane apa members over the years have been hobby printers as opposed to hobby writers. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published 13 issues of ''[[The Conservative]]'' for the [[United Amateur Press Association|United]] ([[UAPA]]) and [[National Amateur Press Association]]s ([[NAPA]]) between 1915 and 1923, and thus indirectly influenced [[Donald A. Wollheim]] and [[John B. Michel]] to found [[fandom]]'s first [[apa]], the [[Fantasy Amateur Press Association]] ([[FAPA]]), which is still churning out mailings. Over the years, a number of [[actifans]] have belonged to and participated in the [[mundane]] [[apas]] and quite a few people who started in ajay made their way to the [[fan]] [[apas]]. As a result, many [[actifans]] (beginning primarily with [[Francis T. Laney]] in the mid-1940s) prefer to be called "amateur journalists" or "amateurs" rather than "[[fans]]" (as [[Hugo Gernsback]] designated us).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Mundane APAs predate those in [[fandom]], and at least two of the three –- [[AAPA]] and [[NAPA]] (or [[American APA]] and [[National APA]]) –- are still in existence. </ins>The [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">United APA</ins>]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(UAPA) disintegrated. </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">H. P. Lovecraft</ins>]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">published a "paper" (as they call </ins>their <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[fanzines]]) called ''[[The Conservative]]'' for them that </ins>predates <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the first real fanzine (or the first real </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sf</ins>]] [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">prozine</ins>]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, for that matter)</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mundane [[APA]]s differ from [[fandom]]'s in two important respects –- they do not have either [1] minimum [[activity requirements]] or [2] a maximum number of members. The vast majority of mundane apa members over the years have been hobby printers as opposed to hobby writers. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published 13 issues of ''[[The Conservative]]'' for the [[United Amateur Press Association|United]] ([[UAPA]]) and [[National Amateur Press Association]]s ([[NAPA]]) between 1915 and 1923, and thus indirectly influenced [[Donald A. Wollheim]] and [[John B. Michel]] to found [[fandom]]'s first [[apa]], the [[Fantasy Amateur Press Association]] ([[FAPA]]), which is still churning out mailings. Over the years, a number of [[actifans]] have belonged to and participated in the [[mundane]] [[apas]] and quite a few people who started in ajay made their way to the [[fan]] [[apas]]. As a result, many [[actifans]] (beginning primarily with [[Francis T. Laney]] in the mid-1940s) prefer to be called "amateur journalists" or "amateurs" rather than "[[fans]]" (as [[Hugo Gernsback]] designated us).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"Amateurish" remains a pejorative but "amateur" comes from the Latin amare, which means "to love," making amateurs people who do things for the love of doing them. And, paraphrasing [[Walt Willis]], those who hold that professionals are invariably superior to amateurs are doomed to prefer the ministrations of gigolos and prostitutes to those of willing and imaginative lovers.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"Amateurish" remains a pejorative but "amateur" comes from the Latin amare, which means "to love," making amateurs people who do things for the love of doing them. And, paraphrasing [[Walt Willis]], those who hold that professionals are invariably superior to amateurs are doomed to prefer the ministrations of gigolos and prostitutes to those of willing and imaginative lovers.</div></td></tr>
</table>Leah Zeldes Smith