Wikipedia:Conlangs/Relays

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I think the reason this one was proposed was because:

  • Relays require you to effectively transmit details of your language to another, and be understood -- i.e., a method of determining completeness.
  • Relays often are of things that are beyond your standard 'travel guide' texts, and can require more obscure points of grammar.
  • By requiring five relays, it requires more completeness than what is needed to translate a single page.

That said, I think it's minor. Almafeta 15:21, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Problem I see with it is that it seems to be limited to the online conlanger community, which doesn't do much to convince me that the language in question isn't a piece of cruft undeserving of an article. The Literate Engineer 05:53, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

I don't think this is a good idea. The problem with the vote/poll as it looks now is that it is far too complicated, and the relay criterion only adds to that. C'mon folks, a relay is a game, nothing more. I have participated in nine relays myself and mastered one. It's great fun, it's a good exercise for your conlang, a nice way to show off, and the websites that are usually created after a relay are true monuments of conlangry. But little more. In my view, relay participation adds nothing to a conlang's notability per se. It dóes however display its usability. Therefore, relay entries should simply be treated as part of a language's corpus. --IJzeren Jan 06:51, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
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