Talk:Anthrocon

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Events section should be expanded to clarify things that are not self-evident, i.e. "Artists Alley" and "Masquerade"

[edit] Merge with Zoo (Anthrocon)

Merge Both articles are relatively short, and the Zoo (Anthrocon) is not notable in itself to be worth a Wikipedia article. Zelmerszoetrop 00:54, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree with this merge suggestion. GreenReaper 08:18, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I, the guy who wrote the article, don't mind either way if it's merged or not. I wrote it as a separate article because Anthrocon is getting to be a little long and wanted to add information to the parent article without making it lose flow and become bothersome to scroll through. If there is a concensus that merging it into Anthrocon won't make it begin to be too long, then go for it. However I disagree that it isn't "worth a Wikipedia article", I have been asked several times what the 'Zoo' is. FMephit 19:53, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, it depends how much detail we go into. We do have a separate page for it on WikiFur, but then we have separate pages on most furry topics in WikiFur. I think the key is that it seems to be wholly related to Anthrocon, so it should be included in the Anthrocon article. If it was something that every furry convention had then that might be a different matter, but that doesn't appear to be the case. GreenReaper 20:31, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I see that one of the purposes for WikiFur is expansion of articles that do not meet the 'nobablity' pseudorequirement of Wikipedia, and because of that I think that it should remain unmerged there. As far as here, either merged or unmerged (I disagree with notability as an article requirement, but there might be other compelling reasons to merge) as is better for the article(s). I agree that it's only a part of AC and would fit in with the parent article, as long as adding it won't make it too winding. Anthrocon has had several editors, I don't know how many of them have an opinion on it. Also, I'm not familiar with other conventions in this fandom so it's possible that they have an analog to the Zoo and that might be something worth mentioning in the article/section.