Wikipedia:Conlangs/Relays

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]