Talk:Furry convention

message: "Often there is a "fursuit-friendly" dance prior to the main event, with raised lighting and slower music to accommodate the reduced visibility of fursuiters" - don't quite understand this sentence. Is "visibility" meant to be "mobility"? I don't see how someone dressed as a raccoon could be hard to see in any lighting, nor why the tempo of the music affects visibility. --Sam Blanning(talk) 11:18, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They might not be hard to see, but they might have trouble seeing, due to their masks and such. I'm assuming that was the intended meaning here. LordAmeth 11:20, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. The heads typically obscure vision (often the fursuiter has to look out of the mouth, which is why they're half-open most of the time). Their mobility is often affected as well. I've changed it to "with raised lighting and slower music to offset fursuiters' reduced visibility and mobility." GreenReaper 11:35, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think 'vision' is a more accurate word than 'visibility' in that case. I've changed it. --Sam Blanning(talk) 14:00, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good call. I was trying to think of a better word, but for some reason "vision" just didn't occur to me. GreenReaper 14:20, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Reduced visibility"

message: In the "Did you know" section in which this article was featured, badges were listed as being one of the ways Furries identify themselves at Furry conventions, but it comes off as if only people at Furry conventions wear numerous badges as identification.  I've been to enough science fiction conventions to know that it's not unique to furries to wear the badges from every convention you've attended.  I'm not sure if this is important enough to even be addressed, but I wanted to point it out anyway. SailorAlphaCentauri 16:35, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: At furry conventions, people often commission artists in the Artists' Alley (or outside of conventions) to create custom badges that identify their character - here's an example. The badge does not just identify them by name, but by species/features/colouration as well. I'm not sure how much this applies to science fiction conventions, as I have only been to one, but it seemed like there were not many custom badges at them - just the badges given by the convention (which often have art on as well, but are not typically customized other than the name). GreenReaper 16:47, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Badges: Unique to Furry Conventions?

message: The list of SF cons has morphed into a sortable table of conventions of all types. 
List of science fiction conventions We are merging some of the lists of cons that are now sparsely or little maintained into it.  There is a column naturally where their individual subject matter is preserved. There are some furry cons there already. The value obtained is the ability to the view and to sort among many subject matters, by date, city, state, or country. --Tbmorgan74 22:41, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm. On the one hand, it does seem appropriate for some of the conventions in the list on this page to be there - particularly the larger, long-running ones. On the other hand, there is more information here about the conventions than could be adequately represented in the list given there - and a few of the ones here probably don't meet widely-accepted definitions of "convention." I'll have a sweep through and see which one seem appropriate to add, as long as people aren't going to shout at me for conflating "furry" and "science fiction". ;-) GreenReaper 00:10, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: as far as I am concerned, I am advocating changing the name of that one to database of genre conventions. I would defer to your judgment on what furry con is suitable for that list. --Tbmorgan74 04:28, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: List of sortable cons

message: I removed the following questionable statement and am copying it here in case it has any plausibility:
:One of the biggest attendees is GuessMyUserName. He goes to every convention and wears a different fursuit to each one. His most notable one is the Lugia Fursuit.
--Mwalimu59 13:42, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It may be true, but I don't see that it's really all that notable. GreenReaper 20:49, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questionable edit 

message: I'm just wondering if there's a reason it's not on the list of conventions, and if it should be on there, where would we stick it? ...or should we just wait a month and a half for it to occur, then start looking for sources?Bengaley 18:08, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing that out.  I added it to the "Future Conventions" list.  It should be moved to "Current Conventions" once it's over in August and they announce their registration numbers. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 18:28, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll try to keep on top of this, as well. Bengaley 21:06, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rainfurrest? 

message: Someone on the WP Anthropomorphic mentioned possibly merging the articles for all the major furry conventions into this article. I've taken the liberty of setting up this as a forum for discussion about that idea.
Personally, I don't like the idea - not only is there enough primary sources on Anthrocon, Confurance, Euro, and FC to keep them on their own page, merging them into one single page would create a very large mess. But it's not only up to me, hence this discussion. Bengaley 21:27, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not a good idea. The articles about these are underdeveloped, but improving that is part of the point of the WikiProject. I'm sure there are verifiable sources available for them out there (Anthrocon alone had several from major Pittsburgh media sources this year and last). I merged and redirected the articles that I thought did not have such sources available or which would be too stubby when creating this article. GreenReaper 07:12, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As you said, these were NeoFreak's notes apparently. *shrug* Copy-Paste tends to creat confusion =P. So I take it that nobody is seriously considering merging these articles together? ((I really need to learn to automatically 4x~ myself...))Bengaley 13:39, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

text: I personally don't take this idea serious Anthrocon, ConFurance, AnthroCon, and Further Confusion shall be merged into this article  which is then merged into Furry Fandom. I think this goes a lil too far. What we can do is to edit the articles so they have a common standard, but this leads way out of t5he theme of this discussion.  --StalkerAT 14:03, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree - keep the articles separate.  Those are major conventions, and they each deserve their own pages as events.  Just expand the pages as appropriate for an encyclopedia, and link to WikiFur's articles whee and when necessary. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 17:43, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Merger of Anthrocon, ConFurance, Eurofurence, and Further Confusion into this Article 

message: I've split off list of furry conventions as I think it's big enough to stand on its own two feet. Looking to nominate this as a good article in the next few days. GreenReaper 21:40, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List moved to separate page 

message: First, let me say what an enjoyable and well-written article this is.  The contributors have, overall, done a good job of representing the subject.  The references seem complete, the tone is appropriately neutral, and the article is stable.  
The only area for improvement that I see is that of coverage:  There is no mention of any public perception of negativity (justified or otherwise) in the article.  It is alluded to, but never discussed, in the section entitled, 'In the media.  I also think it should be mentioned in the lead for the article.
I'm going to tag the article On Hold, and I'd love to have a look after the issue is addressed.  Happy editing! Mmoyer 01:28, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am starting that section now. I am not sure if it should be large or not, but I added what people have thought about furry conventions and what some have done against the cons and their attendees. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 01:52, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

text: I think better coverage of opinions would be a good idea. When writing the original version, I wanted to offer as many references as possible, but I was hesitant to pull opinions out of them - either positive or negative. There is certainly a lot that could be drawn from the sources. As the public perception is (as far as we're concerned) drawn from media coverage of the events, I've merged the two sections and altered the header appropriately. Ideally it might end up with the entire list of media sources converted to prose. GreenReaper 03:47, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds good to me. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 03:52, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

text: I've added a bit about the negative media coverage and the conventions' response to it into the lede. I am not aware of any surveys of the general public about public perception of furry conventions - it's hard enough to even find someone who knows anything about furries (and, chances are, many have only heard of them through the above coverage). I'm a little concerned that it has too much prominence relative to other items of importance; perhaps it could be balanced out by increasing the size of the lede. GreenReaper 06:25, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The lead looks good. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 07:19, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

text: I tweaked this further, because that didn't seem to flow work when "due to" was at the front. Now "due to television and magazine coverage which implied the events were sexually oriented". GreenReaper 05:09, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA review by [[User:Mmoyer|Mmoyer]] 

message: Which con was it that was held at the hotel that had the homophobic baseball players also staying at it at the same time? I can't find any mention of it in the article. --RyanTee82 (talk) 04:11, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that would be Anthrocon. GreenReaper (talk) 02:59, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

text: If you are talking about the New York Mets, it was Anthrocon. Here are two stories about it: Walk On The Wild Side: Furries Return To Pittsburgh, Freak Mets Out and Thousands Of 'Furries' Flock To Pittsburgh For Anthrocon Convention. There is a cool "raw video" in the second one. Enjoy and add it to the article if you think it should be there. RP9 (talk) 19:01, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The baseball players incident

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message: This list has been cluttered with non-notable conventions where a majority of their coverage is local. It would serve a better purpose in the main article where it can be better controlled as to what's eligible for inclusion per WP:NLIST. Jalen Folf (talk) 06:47, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Weak Oppose While I agree that the list is a mess, I think its in need of an overhaul removing non-notable cons, and once completed it would pass notability guidelines. Bailo26 Talk to me 05:44, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

text: Support As per nom. Additionally the list could be limited to those with articles already existing on wiki, but I propose that the dates and themes be ommitted for relevance, as these will be maintained on their respective articles. Thepenguin9 (talk) 04:28, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[List of furry conventions]] into [[Furry convention]] 

message: Please consider incorporating material from the above draft submission into this article. Drafts are eligible for deletion after 6 months of inactivity. ~Kvng (talk) 21:31, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , See also Talk:List of furry conventions#Spinning out an article on Megaplex. Jalen Folf (talk) 02:27, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Draft:Megaplex (convention)]]

message: Hello, so I recently went to Furrydelphia 2021 and they announced that the convention will now be in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for next year. The next year's theme is Galatic Fleet (Space) thanks. Bluedoodle (talk) 13:19, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. —Sirdog (talk) 15:45, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 23 August 2021 

message: I made the article for RainFurrest. Because it appears to be notable enough for Wikipedia standards.CycoMa1 (talk) 16:55, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add RainFurrest to the list 

message: There has been several articles from Canadian news outlets covering the event, especially since the Syrian refuge incident and the bomb threat from last year. ~tayanaru (talk) 01:07, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: This was already discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/VancouFur; an article covering this topic would need to address the "one event" concerns raised there. In other words, there would need to be at least one source on last year's scare. Jalen Folf (talk) 02:11, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Would an article on Vancoufur meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines?