Doll House Lighting for Dummies

dollhouse lighting

As we looked over the past few days of the Antisocial Network posts, we notice that there's sort of a theme developing. Perhaps it's been there all along... anyway, what we've noticed is that many of the recent DotD awardees have been eHow.com contributors who didn't answer the question, either because they didn't understand it or because giving the right answer would be too hard (or maybe both). With that in mind, here's repeat offender Nichole Liandi, writing to the topic "How to Build an Electrical Circuit in a Model House,"¹ which has been slipped into Leaf Group's OurPastimes.com niche site.

It wouldn't surprise us if Liandi did not take electrical circuit design while getting her BA in history from WVU. We figure that someone who wanted to build an electrical circuit for a model house (and here we, like Nichole, assume that by "model" the OQ meant scale model, not display model) would be curious about such things as where to place wiring, what wire gauge to use, how to make connections, what fixtures to use, and so on.

That's not what Liandi wrote about, though. Nichole's advice can be summed up as

"...place the bulbs in spots that are shielded from view yet illuminate the rooms well..."  "...look for routes that hide the wires from view." "Model house, or doll house, lighting is almost always DC (direct current)." "If you use a DC power supply, be sure the power output matches the power requirement of your bulbs." "Plan ahead for your wiring needs and save extra shopping trips and frustration."

With the exception of the bits about DC, there is not a word here that doesn't apply to any wiring project – and Liandi has proven several times that she knows nothing about wiring – why would miniature, low-voltage circuitry be any different?

Here we have just one more example of a Demand Media freelancer attempting to build on "research" she's already done for other articles she's published. Unfortunately, that prior work was deficient, which means the results are pretty much we expected: our Dumbass of the Day didn't do any better than she had before.

¹ The original has been deleted by Leaf Group, but can still be accessed using the Wayback machine at archive.org. Its URL was   ourpastimes.com/build-electrical-circuit-model-house-4682540.html

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