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Talk:DTS (company)

Redirect from Digital Theater System
Would it be appropriate to place a redirect to here from the title "Digital Theater System"? --Reverend Loki 20:53, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

 * That would be a good idea. Qutezuce 03:51, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Non-NPOV or source needed
The following sentance in the DTS Variants section under "DTS-HD Master Audio" does not have a neutral point of view or is lacking a verifiable source:

"Although technically superior over its Dolby counterpart, DTS-HD Master Audio is selected only as an optional surround sound format for Blu-ray and HD-DVD."

I suggest it be changed to say:

"DTS-HD Master Audio is selected as an optional surround sound format for Blu-ray and HD-DVD."

Kirkmeyers 22:42, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Here here. It may save some from experiencing the taste of their sole at a later date. Anyway, Sony Atrac is better than everything, isn't it?

It should be noted that a vast majority of the "History" section is a word for word snip from http://firstdtsstudio.hit.bg/faq_dts_eng.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.30.70.228 (talk) 04:29, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

DTS CD
I have a couple of music CDs that have DTS audio, perhaps this could be elaborated on by someone who knows more about this format, and the releases, etc. Whitesanjuro 16:08, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I sold these for a while in a high-end a/v store when they first came out. 5.1 channel and great sound. DTS cd's dont seem to have fared well in the format wars since superior audio-only formats have come out since. Consequently there are fewer releases available than audiophiles had once hoped and which a/v salespeople like me promised would materialize.Thinkenstein 09:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

AC-3 or AC3?
Since AC-3 and AC3 is absolutely the same thing, I can't see a reason why not to go with "AC3" in this article since it's IMO used much more frequently. Is there any reason why not to do so? Is AC-3 any more correct or something?

 * The Dolby Digital article always refers to it as AC-3 so I think that's the correct way to refer to it. Thunderhawk89 15:01, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Why refer to any non-DTS technology at all, much less debate acronyms of non-DTS technology...

Selling Cinema and Digital Images
DTS has announced that it's selling it's cinema and digital images divisions. (Digital Images was formerly known as Lowry Digital). 201.141.65.186Anonymouse.

Separate variant articles
Wouldn't it be more interesting to have separate articles for each codec? And just a basic comparison here in this article perhaps? Or a codec listing... Thunderhawk89 15:01, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

DTS-HD Variants
I believe DTS-HD and DTS-HDMA aren't the same. From the original DTS website. Thunderhawk89 15:01, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

DTS in DVD's
Of late I have noticed that DVD's released in INDIA do not have DTS encoding. Only Dolby Digital(AC-3) is provided!!

Any idea?!!

Company name
The wiki page says DTS is aka "Digital Theater Systems". Does anyone have a reference for that? Their company page only indicates DTS. Mmernex 15:43, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Sure. Try DTS-6D INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL 35MM October 16, 1998. Digital Theater Systems. 5171 Clareton Drive. Agoura Hills, CA 91301, USA.

 * Or, you could look at this text from the 10-K for 2006:
 * The Company commenced operations in 1990 as Digital Theater Systems Corporation ("DTS Corp"). In 1993, DTS Corp became the general partner of Digital Theater Systems, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership ("the Partnership"). In 1994, the Partnership formed DTS Technology, LLC ("DTS Technology") to develop audio technologies for the consumer electronics and other markets. On October 24, 1997 the Company completed a reorganization and tax-free exchange with the predecessor entities and was incorporated in Delaware. The reorganization and formation of the Company was accounted for as a transaction by entities under common control and was effected by each of the former stockholders and owners of DTS Corp, the Partnership and DTS Technology receiving an ownership interest in the Company, represented by shares of common stock and warrants to acquire shares of common stock, substantially equivalent to their previous interests in DTS Corp, the Partnership and DTS Technology. On July 9, 2003, the Company completed its initial public offering for the sale of 4,091 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $17.00 per share. All of the shares of common stock sold in the offering were registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") on a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Reg. No. 333-104761) that was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on July 9, 2003 and a Registration Statement filed pursuant to Rule 426(b) under the Securities Act that was filed on July 9, 2003 (Reg. No. 333-106920). In May 2005, the Company changed its name from Digital Theater Systems, Inc. to DTS, Inc.
 * In January 2007, the Company combined its Cinema and Digital Images businesses into a single business known as "DTS Digital Cinema." In February 2007, the Company's Board of Directors approved a plan to sell its DTS Digital Cinema business to enable the Company to focus exclusively on licensing branded entertainment technology to the large and evolving audio, game console, personal computer, portable, broadcast, and other markets. The sales process has begun and is expected to conclude later in 2007. For additional information, refer to Footnote 24 of the consolidated financial statements, "Subsequent Events."
 * jhawkinson 02:30, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Inconsistencies
According to the History of apt-X webpage of APT, Dr Stephen Smyth begun working on the fundamentals for the DTS format in the 1980s with a DSP hardware solution called APTX100ED at the end of the 1980s. According to the DTS history whitepaper the compression algorithm was demonstrated in early 1992 for Steven Spielberg using a hard drive. Universal decided to test DTS on two "minor" movies before Jurrasic Park to ensure that the technology worked (which two these were would of course be very interesting to know).

Again from the DTS history whitepaper, for the integration of the apt-X codec into practical movie use Terry Beard started working on the solution in 1972, joined by Jim Ketcham in the mid 1980s. Digital Theater Systems was founded at February 1, 1993 and was co-owned by Universal, Steven Spielberg, Terry, Jim "and others".

So the start year in the history section is if not wrong so at least misleading. It also sounds like it was Steven Speilberg who started the technology research, when it was really in a working state when he was brought in.

The section "DTS as a codec" is in its current state very questionable. To start out with a patent dispute in France is trivia and to label it as "enhanced copy" is clearly taking a side.

To label apt-X as "traditional ADPCM" is perhaps to oversimplify it, as apt-X takes four 16-bit samples and divides them into four subbands through a QMF, calculates the difference against a backward linear prediction loop and quantize the error signal with a backaward adaptive Laplacian quantizer. The bit rate of the four sub-bands, though fixed, are different due to psychoacoustic masking. (The information is from apt-X technical overview) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.112.15.70 (talk) 16:56, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

I need help with understanding DTS HD Master Audio
I am thinking of buying a HD TV and a Blu-ray player. I've looked on the back covers of some Blu-ray titles that list DTS HD Master Audio as the only main audio track, will DTS HD Master Audio tracks be heard on the speakers on a HD TV or do I need a surround sound system? Kieranthompson —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kieranthompson (talk • contribs) 20:23, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Split Article?
This article should probably be about the company, with talk of the codec (and, pertinent to this article, the various extensions) left to DTS Coherent Acoustics. Thoughts? —Locke Cole • t • c 21:10, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I'd rather like to see an article DTS (Company), because I think most people looking up DTS are interested in the codec, so the main article should be about that. But splitting would be a good idea imo. 86.33.110.66 (talk) 12:00, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

The term 'core'
From the current revision: 'The PlayStation 3 can decode the "core" of DTS-HD internally at a bitrate of 1.5 Mbit/s while the Xbox 360 can output the bitstream itself via Toslink.' What does this mean? The 360 outputs the encoded stream, while the PS3 outputs, what, a partially decoded version? What's the practical effect? --DocumentN (talk) 02:31, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

The PS3 can decode DTS audio and output PCM multi-channel audio to a connected AVR. Perhaps this is what is being implied? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.112.143.13 (talk) 04:11, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

 * Just in case anybody's still confused about this: DTS-HD is backwards compatible because it includes a standard DTS "core" that can be used by devices that support DTS but not DTS-HD, including Toslink (S/PDIF optical) and HDMI ARC, which lack the bandwidth for DTS-HD.  —Torc.  ( Talk. ) 21:14, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Licence violation ?
A great part of the text is only a copy of the 1st reference (http://firstdtsstudio.hit.bg/faq_dts_eng.html) and I don't see any reuse licence on this page, so it seems to me that this is a licence violation ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.236.137.143 (talk) 17:06, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

DTS Connect
I branched out DTS connect to its own section, as I was able to add the DTS Neo:PC information, and thus fully explain the DTS Connect variant. I was able to find a reference, as well as use my own knowledge of the subject. Floodo1 (talk) 00:53, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Removed mention of stand-alone devices such as HD-DVD & Blu-ray players as using DTS Interactive, as I don't know of any devices that use this technology. It doesnt make sense that they would use this as DTS interactive is a technology that encodes multi-channel surround into DTS format, and most (if not all) HD-DVD's and Blu-ray discs would already have DTS material. Essentially the only use for this technology on such devices would be to transcode Dolby Digital formats to DTS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Floodo1 (talk • contribs) 00:46, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

AC-3 data rate when used in 35mm film
The article, in the History section, discusses an AC-3 data rate of 448kbps and goes on to say, referring to AC-3, that "theatrical (35 mm movie) installations, which are limited to even lower bitrates." There is one data rate for theatrical print films using Dolby Digital (aka AC-3). That data rate is 320 kbps. I'm not changing it because the entire paragraph has many problems that need to be addressed. MRJayMach (talk) 20:46, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Merger
There has been a suggestion to merge the page DTS Coherent Acoustics with DTS (sound system). Please leave a Support or Oppose at the bottom of the list and state why you did so.

 * I Support this merger. What's the point of having the DTS Coherent Acoustics page? It's simply pointless, since the information is already on DTS (sound system). I have merged the two pages together.  Limetolime  Talk to me • look what I did! 03:16, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Huh? the page was merged without even waiting a single day? That doesn't seem right. It might've been nice to've seen some discussion before the rename, too. jhawkinson (talk) 15:13, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

DTS vs Dolby Digital volume
It should be noted that a DTS soundtrack will often sound louder than the DD soundtrack on the same disc, which will make DTS seem better. DD is subject to dialnorm, where DTS is not which could be the reason for the volume difference. This can lead to an unfair comparison between the two formats. 75.71.201.190 (talk) 13:07, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

DTS and its variants now support Dialnorm, with many DTS encoded Blu-ray discs showing various Dialnorm values such as -4, which makes their levels comparable to Dolby's - all things being equal, of course. Ty Chamberlain (talk) 23:29, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Already moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 16:52, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

DTS (sound system) → DTS (Company) —

This article is about the company, not the sound system. Should be DTS (Company) or similar. Int21h (talk) 07:45, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

 * Moved back. Besides the first sentence, the entire article was about audio technologies, not a company. --uKER (talk) 05:11, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

DTS Express is missing
a.k.a. "Low Bitrate DTS".

KSM-2501ZX, IP address:= 200.226.101.205 (talk) 04:43, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Blu-Ray
The lack of mention of Blu-Ray really dates this article. Additionally there are many phrases that require the article to be contemporary "Nearly all standalone receivers and many integrated DVD player/receivers manufactured today can decode DTS." In an article full of references to Laser Disks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.105.212.184 (talk) 15:25, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

DVD, primary audio tracks
There is something wrong in this paragraph: MPEG-1 Layer 2 is a video standard, not an audio standard. Maybe MPEG-1 Layer 3?--Stemby (talk) 17:00, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry, actually it's correct. I got confused with MPEG-1 Part 2.--Stemby (talk) 18:42, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Datasat is a separate corporation!
Currently, "Datasat" redirects here, to DTS Sound System. However, this is not correct, there are 2 corporations:

DTS, Inc.: "DTS' corporate headquarters are located in Calabasas, California with its licensing operations headquartered in Limerick, Ireland." Their history: "Founded in 1990 by entrepreneur/scientist Terry Beard and funded by Universal City Studios, Inc. and other investors in 1993, DTS (Nasdaq: DTSI) introduced its master-quality sound with the release of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Jurassic Park." - see http://www.dts.com/corporate/dts-history.aspx

On the other hand, there is the Datasat Group, with "Phil Emmel, Founder & Managing Director, The Datasat Group", and offices in Twyford (UK), Hertfordshire (UK), and Chatsworth (CA). Their link to DTS according to their history brochure: "1987: Datasat Communications is formed; 2008: DTS sells cinema arm to the Datasat Group. It becomes Datasat Digital Entertainment". Datasat is claiming DTS' cinema history and achievements, but hardly mentions DTS. It sounds like this: "Formed in 1991, Datasat Digital Entertainment set out to provide a superior listening experience to movie-goers. We developed one of the first digital audio systems for cinemas. This caught the attention of Steven Speilberg and, in 1993, the first movie to feature our sound technology was released. The film was called Jurassic Park." and "It's difficult to over-estimate how visionary the work that we - when we were part of DTS® – and Dolby Laboratories® conducted on digital surround sound in the early 1990s." - see http://www.datasatdigital.com/about-us/company/company-profile.php

Although these 2 companies have partly common roots, and commercially they seem to complement each other rather than compete, they are still separate corporations with separate products. Therefore I strongly suggest to set up a separate Wikipedia article for Datasat, and corresponding explanations in both articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.158.138.19 (talk) 11:11, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

DTS Neural:X
Please expand this section. The description on the DTS website is rather vague. Is it only for upmixing legacy DTS formats? Or also multichannel bitstreams? And can receivers feed dolby signals in the DTS Neural:X upmixer? Does it make use of the ceiling speakers? Gosh how i hate the vague and uninformative websites some US companies have. If you're not giving any info, don't waste your words and my time on giving non-info. PizzaMan (♨♨) 18:59, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Article is about a technology, yet it has a company infobox
You don't typically see that. There should be a separate article for the company, and no company infobox here. Timtempleton (talk) 23:04, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

DTS disc caddies
I see no mention of the disc caddies some theatre systems required for playing DTS discs. It was like a jewel case but had a sliding metal door similar to 3.5in floppy drives. They were more common on older computer systems as well. There's a picture of one on this site but it's in French so I can't use it as a source to create a new section myself. https://www.journaldulapin.com/2016/07/29/dts-cinema-aud/ IRMacGuyver (talk) 21:32, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

 * These were standard on early CD-ROM drives. They weren't specifically for DTS discs.  —Torc.  ( Talk. ) 21:41, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Split article
It's been suggested a few times that this should be split between DTS the company and DTS technologies. A comment above says the merge between these two pages happened a day after it was proposed here. It might have made sense at the time, but really doesn't any more. The History section mashes together company and technology timelines, and the Technology section mixes codecs, post-processing, and networking protocols together. It's especially weird since there's an article specifically on DTS-HD Master Audio, but not DTS-HD itself.

I think the first step should be restoring this edit and cleaning up that article. Is there anything that needs to happen before we can do that?  —Torc.  ( Talk. ) 21:41, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Compression
Since the article mentions compression, it would be helpful to note (or link to) what kind(s) of compression are used/supported, whether they are lossy or lossless, etc.

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Dammasch State Hospital was a mental hospital, asylum, and educational center located in Wilsonville, Oregon, United States. Named for Dr. Ferdinand H. Dammasch, the hospital opened in 1961 and closed in 1995. After its closure, the former site was embroiled in local controversy as it was a proposed location for a women's prison, which angered local residents as the site is less than a mile from residential neighborhoods. The Dammasch building was demolished, and the Villebois housing development occupies its former site.

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Gayle Rubin

Gayle S. Rubin (born January 1, 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist, theorist and activist, best known for her pioneering work in feminist theory and queer studies.

Her essay "The Traffic in Women" (1975) had a lasting influence in second-wave feminism and early gender studies, by arguing that gender oppression could not be adequately explained by Marxist conceptions of the patriarchy. Her 1984 essay "Thinking Sex" is widely regarded as a founding text of gay and lesbian studies, sexuality studies, and queer theory. She has written on a range of subjects including the politics of sexuality, gender oppression, sadomasochism, pornography and lesbian literature, as well as anthropological studies of urban sexual subcultures, and is an associate professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.

Early life
Rubin was raised in a white middle-class Jewish home in then-segregated South Carolina. She attended segregated public schools, her classes only being desegregated when she was a senior. Rubin has written that her experiences growing up in the segregated South has given her "an abiding hatred of racism in all its forms and a healthy respect for its tenacity." As one of the few Jews in her Southern city, she resented the dominance of white Protestants over African-Americans, Catholics, and Jews. The only Jewish child in her elementary school, she claims she was punished for refusing to recite the Lord's Prayer.

College, early activism, and early writing
In 1968 Rubin was part of an early feminist consciousness raising group active on the campus of the University of Michigan and also wrote on feminist topics for women's movement papers and the Ann Arbor Argus. In 1970 she helped found Ann Arbor Radicalesbians, an early lesbian feminist group. She was also a graduate worker in 1975, when the Graduate Employees' Organization 3550 was formed at the University of Michigan. At the time, she and Anne Bobroff, a fellow graduate student, wrote and distributed a leaflet titled "The Fetishization of Bargaining", which argued that bargaining alone is not enough to convince management.

Rubin first rose to recognition through her 1975 essay "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex", which had a galvanizing effect on feminist theory.

San Francisco
In 1978 Rubin moved to San Francisco to begin studies of the gay male leather subculture, seeking to examine a minority sexual practice neither from a clinical perspective nor through the lens of individual psychology but rather as an anthropologist studying a contemporary community.

Rubin was a member of Cardea, a women's discussion group within a San Francisco BDSM organization called the Society of Janus; Cardea existed from 1977 to 1978 before discontinuing. A core of lesbian members of Cardea, including Rubin, Pat Califia (who identified as a lesbian at the time), and sixteen others, were inspired to start Samois on June 13, 1978, as an exclusively lesbian BDSM group. Samois was a lesbian-feminist BDSM organization based in San Francisco that existed from 1978 to 1983, and was the first lesbian BDSM group in the United States. In 1984 Rubin cofounded The Outcasts, a social and educational organization for women interested in BDSM with other women, also based in San Francisco. That organization was disbanded in the mid-1990s; its successor organization The Exiles is still active. In 2012, The Exiles in San Francisco received the Small Club of the Year award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards.

In the field of public history, Rubin was a member of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project, a private study group founded in 1978 whose members included Allan Berube, Estelle Freedman and Amber Hollibaugh. Rubin also is a founding member of the GLBT Historical Society (originally known as the San Francisco Bay Area Gay and Lesbian Historical Society), established in 1985. Arguing the need for well-maintained historical archives for sexual minorities, Rubin has written that "queer life is full of examples of fabulous explosions that left little or no detectable trace.... Those who fail to secure the transmission of their histories are doomed to forget them".

She became the first woman to judge a major national gay male leather title contest in 1991, when she judged the Mr. Drummer contest. This contest was associated with Drummer magazine, which was based in San Francisco.

The San Francisco South of Market Leather History Alley consists of four works of art along Ringold Alley honoring the leather subculture; it opened in 2017. One of the works of art is a black granite stone etched with, among other things, a narrative by Rubin. Rubin was an important member of the community advisory group that was consulted to develop the designs of the works of art.

Academic career
In 1994, Rubin completed her Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Michigan with a dissertation entitled The valley of kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960–1990.

In addition to her appointment at the University of Michigan, she was the 2014 F. O. Matthiessen Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University.

Rubin serves on the editorial board of the journal Feminist Encounters and on the international advisory board of the feminist journal Signs.

Other
Rubin is a sex-positive feminist. The 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality is often credited as the moment that signaled the beginning of the feminist sex wars; Rubin gave a version of her work "Thinking Sex" (see below) as a workshop there. "Thinking Sex" then had its first publication in 1984, in Carole Vance's book Pleasure and Danger, which was an anthology of papers from that conference. "Thinking Sex" is a sex-positive piece which is widely regarded as a founding text of gay and lesbian studies, sexuality studies, and queer theory.

Rubin served on the board of directors of the Leather Archives and Museum from 1992 to 2000.

Rubin is on the Board of Governors for the Leather Hall of Fame.

The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex
In this essay, Rubin devised the phrase "sex/gender system", which she defines as "the set of arrangements by which a society transforms biological sexuality into products of human activity, and in which these transformed sexual needs are satisfied." She takes as a starting point writers who have previously discussed gender and sexual relations as an economic institution which serves a conventional social function (Claude Lévi-Strauss) and is reproduced in the psychology of children (Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan). She argues that these writers fail to adequately explain women's oppression, and offers a reinterpretation of their ideas. Rubin addresses Marxist thought by identifying women's role within a capitalist society. She argues that the reproduction of labor power depends upon women's housework to transform commodities into sustenance for the worker. The system of capitalism cannot generate surplus without women, yet society does not grant women access to the resulting capital.

Rubin argues that historical patterns of female oppression have constructed this role for women in capitalist societies. She attempts to analyze these historical patterns by considering the sex/gender system. According to Rubin, "Gender is a socially imposed division of the sexes." She cites the exchange of women within patriarchal societies as perpetuating the pattern of female oppression, referencing Marcel Mauss' Essay on the Gift and using his idea of the "gift" to establish the notion that gender is created within this exchange of women by men in a kinship system. Women are born biologically female, but only become gendered when the distinction between male giver and female gift is made within this exchange. For men, giving the gift of a daughter or a sister to another man for the purpose of matrimony allows for the formation of kinship ties between two men and the transfer of "sexual access, genealogical statuses, lineage names and ancestors, rights and people" to occur. When using a Marxist analysis of capitalism within this sex/gender system, the exclusion of women from the system of exchange establishes men as the capitalists and women as their commodities fit for exchange. She ultimately argues that, in the current moment, a genderless identity and a polymorphous sexuality with no hierarchies are possible if we break away from the "now functionless" sex/gender system.

Thinking Sex
In her 1984 essay Thinking Sex, Rubin interrogated the value system that social groups—whether left- or right-wing, feminist or patriarchal—attribute to sexuality which defines some behaviours as good/natural and others (such as homosexuality or BDSM) as bad/unnatural. In this essay she introduced the idea of the "Charmed Circle" of sexuality, that sexuality that was privileged by society was inside of it, while all other sexuality was outside of, and in opposition to it. The binaries of this "charmed circle" include couple/alone or in groups, monogamous/promiscuous, same generation/cross-generational, and bodies only/with manufactured objects. The "Charmed Circle" speaks to the idea that there is a hierarchical valuation of sex acts. In this essay, Rubin also discusses a number of ideological formations that permeate sexual views. The most important is sex negativity, in which Western cultures consider sex to be a dangerous, destructive force. If marriage, reproduction, or love are not involved, almost all sexual behavior is considered bad. Related to sex negativity is the fallacy of the misplaced scale. Rubin explains how sex acts are troubled by an excess of significance.

Rubin's discussion of all of these models assumes a domino theory of sexual peril. People feel a need to draw a line between good and bad sex as they see it standing between sexual order and chaos. There is a fear that if certain aspects of "bad" sex are allowed to move across the line, unspeakable acts will move across as well. One of the most prevalent ideas about sex is that there is one proper way to do it. Society lacks a concept of benign sexual variation. People fail to recognize that just because they do not like to do something does not make it repulsive. Rubin points out that we have learned to value other cultures as unique without seeing them as inferior, and we need to adopt a similar understanding of different sexual cultures as well.

Legacy of Thinking Sex
Rubin's 1984 essay Thinking Sex is widely regarded as a founding text of gay and lesbian studies, sexuality studies, and queer theory.

The University of Pennsylvania hosted a "state of the field" conference in gender and sexuality studies on March 4 to 6, 2009, titled "Rethinking Sex" and held in recognition of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Thinking Sex. Rubin was a featured speaker at the conference, where she presented "Blood under the Bridge: Reflections on 'Thinking Sex,'" to an audience of nearly eight hundred people. In 2011 GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies published a special issue, also titled "Rethinking Sex," featuring work emerging from this conference, and including Rubin's piece "Blood under the Bridge: Reflections on 'Thinking Sex'".

In a 2011 reflection on "Rethinking Sex", Rubin clarified that her "comments on sex and children were made in a different context", at a time in the 1980s when moral panics about Satanists and kidnappers were prevalent, and she never imagined people would claim she "supported the rape of pre-pubescents." She stated that her writings had been misconstrued by right-wingers and anti-pornography advocates.

Awards and honors

 * 2019: Race Bannon Advocacy Award from the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
 * 2017: The San Francisco South of Market Leather History Alley consists of four works of art along Ringold Alley honoring the leather subculture; it opened in 2017. One of the works of art is a black granite stone etched with, among other things, a narrative by Rubin. Rubin was an important member of the community advisory group that was consulted to develop the designs of the works of art.
 * 2012: Her book Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader received the National Leather Association's Geoff Mains Non-fiction book award for 2012.
 * 2012: Ruth Benedict Prize
 * 2003: David R. Kessler Award for LGBTQ Studies, CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
 * 2000: Leather Archives and Museum "Centurion"
 * 2000: National Leather Association Lifetime Achievement Award
 * 1992: Pantheon of Leather Forebear Award
 * 1988: National Leather Association Jan Lyon Award for Regional or Local Work
 * Unknown date: Induction into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame

Writings

 * Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012).
 * "Samois", in Marc Stein, ed., Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003). (PDF download.)
 * "Studying Sexual Subcultures: the Ethnography of Gay Communities in Urban North America", in Ellen Lewin and William Leap, eds., Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002)
 * "Old Guard, New Guard", in Cuir Underground, Issue 4.2, Summer 1998. (Online text.)
 * "Sites, Settlements, and Urban Sex: Archaeology And The Study of Gay Leathermen in San Francisco 1955–1995", in Robert Schmidt and Barbara Voss, eds., Archaeologies of Sexuality (London: Routledge, 2000).
 * "The Miracle Mile: South of Market and Gay Male Leather in San Francisco 1962–1996", in James Brook, Chris Carlsson, and Nancy Peters, eds., Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1998).
 * "From the Past: The Outcasts" from the newsletter of Leather Archives & Museum No. 4, April 1998.
 * "Music from a Bygone Era", in Cuir Underground, Issue 3.4, May 1997. (Online text.)
 * "Elegy for the Valley of the Kings: AIDS and the Leather Community in San Francisco, 1981–1996", in Martin P. Levine, Peter M. Nardi, and John H. Gagnon, eds. In Changing Times: Gay Men and Lesbians Encounter HIV/AIDS (University of Chicago Press, 1997).
 * The valley of kings: Leathermen in San Francisco, 1960–1990. University of Michigan, 1994. (Doctoral dissertation.)
 * "Of catamites and kings: Reflections on butch, gender, and boundaries", in Joan Nestle (Ed). The Persistent Desire. A Femme-Butch-Reader. Boston: Alyson. 466 (1992).
 * Misguided, Dangerous and Wrong: An Analysis of Anti-Pornography Politics, 1992. (PDF download)
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Wikipedia:Conlangs/Alternative proposal

Well, that was not what one would call a good start for our vote. Okay, never mind. Since we decided to revisit the discussion a little, I would like to propose an alternative questionnaire. Because frankly, I think the current questionnaire is needlessly chaotic, complex, unclear, and long. The odds are that the final result would be a set of criteria that are so complicated that no one will be able to control everything, and that's pretty much beside the point of this whole operation. Let's not forget why we started this: because anybody could call anything "non-notable" just on the basis of this own sentiments. What we want is to provide a set of objective criteria that can decide whether a conlang is notable enough for inclusion.

On the basis of the TOC, I have grouped the fourty question under a few headers:
 * NUMBER OF SPEAKERS
 * 1 Has 10 speakers
 * 2 Has 30 speakers
 * 3 Has 100 speakers
 * 4 Has 300 speakers
 * 5 Has 1000 speakers
 * COMPLETENESS
 * Language
 * 21 Has a complete grammar
 * 24 Has a sufficiently large vocabulary
 * 28 The language can be used to define its own grammar
 * 29 The language can translate the Babel Text
 * Corpus
 * 33 Has been used in at least 5 translation relays
 * 34 At least 10 original texts are published in the language
 * 35 At least 20 original texts published in the language
 * 36 Has a public corpus of at least 10,000 words
 * 37 Has a public corpus of at least 100,000 words
 * UNIQUENESS
 * 27 Has an extreme grammar or vocabulary
 * 30 The language has a unique script
 * 32 Sets itself challenging artistic goals, and achieves them
 * 38 Demonstates plausible historical derivation from a natural language
 * 39 Demonstrates plausible historical derivation from another conlang
 * PUBLICATION
 * 6 A book has been published about the language
 * 7 A book with an ISBN has been published about the language
 * 8 A book has been published in the language
 * 9 A book with an ISBN has been published in the language
 * 25 Has been used in professionally published media
 * REPUTATION
 * 12 Among 100 most popular conlangs
 * 13 Among 200 most popular conlangs
 * 14 Been mistaken for a real language
 * 15 Caused controversy
 * 17 Inspired a notable conlang
 * 19 Has caused active discussion
 * 20 At least N independent discussions of the language
 * 26 Actively supported/developed
 * 40 Contributes to the notability of another conlang
 * OTHER
 * 10 Was created before 1900
 * 11 Was created before 1950
 * 16 Has an ISO code
 * 18 Has a Wikipedia
 * 22 Was created by J.R.R. Tolkien
 * 23 Was created by Marc Okrand
 * 31 Is associated with a well developed conculture
 * NOT MENTIONED IN THE QUESTIONNAIRE
 * Worked by m people for n years.
 * Differential criteria due to purpose
 * Has established notability outside of the conlanger community
 * Has this language influenced others?
 * What is the consensus of the conlang community about this particular language?
 * Does this language play a role in a broader work of fiction, like movies, books of fiction, games or Internet-based projects (in other words, not only in books with an ISBN number about or in the language itself)?
 * Has the language received any particular attention, for example in the media or the press?
 * Can the language be considered the exponent of a particular genre?

Number of speakers
Two things. First of all, I think we should abolish all options higher than 100. As far as I know, only Esperanto, Interlingua, Ido and Klingon can safely be estimated on >100. I don't think even Glosa, Novial, Lingua Franca Nova, Volapük, Quenya or Toki Pona have more than 100 speakers. Putting the barrier higher than that would be nonsense. If you ask me, 20-30 speakers is more than enough to keep all kinds of unwanted IALs out.

Secondly, instead of saying "Has N speakers" we would perhaps better say "Has or had N speakers".

Apart from that, it is hopelessly difficult to find info about the actual number of speakers of a language. The proponents are undoubtedly best informed, but needless to say that they are not the most reliable source of information. Besides, how proficient must a person be to qualify as a speaker? And more importantly, how do we measure that?

All in all, the minor/major distinction could work here. Something like Minor = 10 and Major = 50 or 100.

 * Hear, hear! But of course, it might be decided that Glosa, Novial, Lingua Franca Nova, Volapük, Quenya and Toki Pona are unfit for wikipedia, them being silly wastes of nonsense drivel or whatnot (just copying from discussions and comments in various earlier VfDs here), meaning that this number must be set to a million or so so that only Esperanto survives. Btw, I think Esperanto is the only of them to have native (though bilingual speakers). There's currently a research-project about them at my local university. --Kaleissin 11:07:09, 2005-08-30 (UTC)

 * You are undoubtedly aware of an attempt at raising a boy bilingually in English and Klingon. I don't know about other languages, although I wouldn't be surprised if Interlingua and Ido had one or two native speakers as well. --IJzeren Jan 11:48, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Strange BTW that Glosa has no article here, while it is featured in Belarusian, German, Esperanto, French, Interlingua, Norwegian and Russian... --IJzeren Jan 11:54, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree on the rephrasing "has or had". And I agree that setting the bar higher than 100 speakers is silly; but since not everyone feels that way, I don't think we should omit such options from the poll/vote/whatever.  That way we would open ourselves up to the accusation that this whole enterprise is biased toward conlangs and that we've deliberately announced this in a way to get only conlang-inclined people involved in the discussion and vote/poll/whatever. --Jim Henry | Talk 13:06, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, not if we tell them that only four of five conlangs have more than 100 speakers. There's nothing wrong with adding some explanatory comment to each section (something similar exists already on the vo... erm, poll page). Putting the barrier higher than that is downright silly (but on the other hand, 100 or 1000 won't make a difference, since both Klingon and Ido are notable enough for other reasons). --IJzeren Jan 13:16, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Except that by our reasoning, only those 4 or 5 conlangs deserve their own articles. At least, only those 4 or 5 on the grounds of the number of speakers.  Speaking for myself, if the barrier's only 100, then it's a poor measure of notability, and I'm opposed to its use.  Come to think of it, I think we should address the point Jim hinted at: is our method of determining consensus adequately proof of accusations that it slanted the results either towards inclusion or exclusion of conlangs?  Jim and I both objected to the original poll on the grounds that its vote-counting method had a structural bias in it, for instance.  The Literate Engineer 00:15, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Alright, I have no objections against including a higher barrier (300, perhaps even 1000) as an option in the poll. I just wanted to make clear that practically, any barrier higher than 100 is pointless. I'll modify my proposal accordingly.
 * As for your second point: I agree with the point Jim brought in. Before we start the vote, it should be clear how the votes will be counted, and whose votes will be counted. I'm ready to discuss that before we start anything. But I also think there should be a moment when we stop talking about procedures; I have such a feeling that if we carry on much longer like this, everybody will lose interest and once again we'll end up with nothing at all. That would be a pity, not only because I genuinely believe it would be good to have some objective guidelines, but also for the word and time many of us have invested in this project. --IJzeren Jan 08:00, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I think it's an apples and oranges thing again. There are conlangs that are meant to be used for communication. Some of them are actually used so. I agree that number of speakers is relevant for this subtype. There are conlangs that are not meant for communication. If they are sufficiently complete though, they can be used for communication and some of them are (eg. Quenya and Sindarin. Still, number of speakers is really irrelevant. The third type aren't languages at all, just sketches.... but sketches part of a greater work, like Marain is part of the Culture, ergo they get in on that criteria, merged with the main article or not. Speakers impossible ergo speakers irrelevant. --Kaleissin 08:12:35, 2005-09-05 (UTC)

 * Well, yes, of course. But don't forget that we all criteria are INCLUSIVE only. The opposite (that for example little or no speakers would diminish a language's notability) is not necessarily true. And, while I agree that the success/notability/whathaveyou of an artlang can not be measured by its number of speakers, you can hardly call it "notable because it has no speakers but it wasn't meant for that anyway". For artlangs, there are other criteria (but in my opinion, quality and/or completeness alone to not per so make a language notable enough for inclusion).
 * Sure, it's comparing apples and oranges. But that's our reality: there are numerous languages that have elements of auxlangs, artlang and/or engelangs at the same time; if classifying a language is a problem even for an expert, how do you expect the average wikipedian who has heard only of Esperanto and perhaps Klingon will handle it? Let's face it: most people here don't care for what purpose a language was made, they just want to know if an article is warranted or not. The purpose of my proposal is not only to be accurate or complete, but also to be applied easily. Now there's definitely something that could be said in favour of creating different sets of criteria for different conlang categories, but frankly, I don't think that will be necessary, since all categories are covered in the questionnaire anyway. --IJzeren Jan 09:10, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I was writing for the benefit of the The Literate Engineer, not you. I don't know what knowledge the former has about conlangs and conlanging, and I find preaching to be easy. It might be "of course" to you but it isn't so to a lot of people. --Kaleissin 11:10:19, 2005-09-05 (UTC) (P.S. I'm starting to think definition-list markup for threads is a bad idea.)

 * Sorry, my fault! I've corrected it. --IJzeren Jan 11:24, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I think it's important to treat the number-of-speakers as one of many potential reasons for notability. Thus, a bar of 100 does not exclude languages with fewer than 100 speakers, it just refuses languages with fewer than 100 speakers inclusion based solely on that criterion. WP:MUSIC uses the same or style criteria. Therefore, just because only a handful of conlangs would meet this criterion does not necessarily mean the barrier is too high. (IMO, 20-30 speakers wouldn't alone imply notability for me. In comparison, we certainly wouldn't accept a neologism known among 20-30 high school students.) Brighterorange 18:16, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

 * It takes less than a day to learn a neologism so that it actually sticks. It takes a child 15 years on average to truly master his/her native tongue. I don't have the number for languages learnt as an adult but often, adults seem not able to learn more languages at all. Apples and oranges, mon! --Kaleissin 20:13:43, 2005-09-01 (UTC)

Completeness
Personally, I don't think completeness makes a language notable per se, even if it has 10 million words! A language with that many words will be probably be notable for other reasons too (esteem, discussions etc.), so I don't think we need to oversubtilise this. The nine (!) current criteria make it needlessly complicated. I believe completeness is achieved by three things (no OR ... OR but AND ... AND):
 * Has a complete grammar (how do we measure this?)
 * Has a sufficiently large vocabulary (>= N words)
 * Has a public corpus of at least N words; distinguishing between original texts and translations is not necessary IMO, and not always easy to accomplish anyway.

 * If it can be used for everyday communication, it must be complete, so the languages with more than one actual speaker already fulfills this. This criterium is more relevant for artlangs I think, to keep the sketches and mentions (like Marain) and Babel-text only, out. But of course, having a page about a language with links to a complete, free, well-written reference grammar might not be in the best interest of Wikipedia. --Kaleissin 11:14:00, 2005-08-30 (UTC)

 * For "has a complete gramar" I suggested the Lingua Questionnaire. The public corpus, I think, is as much an indication of how much the language is used as it is of how complete it is.  And I agree that completeness per se does not make a language notable (or, more importantly, verifiable); but since not everyone agrees with us (Sai, for instance) we should not exclude such options from the poll at the outset.  There's little or no danger of them getting a consensus in favor, especially now that a large number of non-conlangers have gotten involved in the discussion and will undoubtedly be voting in the poll (oops, "expressing their opinions"). --Jim Henry | Talk 13:13, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Uniqueness
Here we have no less than five different options, to which I would like to add the option "Can the language be considered the exponent of a particular genre?" Well, in my own opinion all this says something about the interestingness of a language, but not about its notability. If a language is really unique, it will automatically generate attention and discussion.

I think we should vote about two things: can "uniqueness" be considered a major or a minor criterion, or none at all, and if so, which of these factors do we accept as factors that make a language unique?

Publication
Can't we just simplify this a little? This whole discussion about ISBN numbers and sales figures are far beyond the reach of the average wikipedian! If you ask me, the following would do:
 * A book has been published about the language
 * A book has been published in the language
 * It has been used in professionally published media.

The next question would be: is this a major or a minor criterion for notability in general?

 * How do you define language here? Especially for media other than books, is a mention or a wordlist or some squiggles resembling writing, language? --Kaleissin 11:38:27, 2005-08-30 (UTC)

 * Well, in my personal opinion the lack of completeness of the language can be compensated by the importance of the medium. If a book of little importance features a conlang that is nothing but the name of the language and two words, then a wikipedia article is not warranted. But if the medium is incredibly super-important (like LOTR, or Harry Potter, or Star Trek), then things might turn out a little different. --IJzeren Jan 11:46, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I suspect the person who originally suggested the "with an ISBN" restriction wanted to rule out vanity press or self-published items. But most recent self-published items have ISBNs -- they're easy to get -- and older professionally published books did not have ISBNs.  Also, note that several people voting in the original poll wanted to make a distinction between books written by the conlang creator and books written by others.  This relates to Robert West's criteria for verifiability and avoiding original research: can we reference some independent discussion of the language by people other than the language's creators?  If so, maybe it doesn't matter what form such independent discussion takes, whether book, magazine article, or web page. --Jim Henry | Talk 15:18, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * As for the latter, I think that's sufficiently covered in the REPUTATION section. Excluding a book written by the author of the language is IMO nonsense; who else would have written the book? That has nothing to do with the no original research criterion for inclusion in the wikipedia (after all, we are talking about notability here). But my main point remains: let's keep it as simple as possible. If we refine every single criterion with numerous exceptions, ifs, buts and unlesses, we get a "notabilizer" (TM) that becomes very difficult to use. --IJzeren Jan 16:05, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Reputation

 * Has the language received any particular attention, for example in the media or the press?

Under this header I have grouped nine questions from the poll + four questions that were not listed. I think we have the following factors here: A currently very frequently used tool for establishing notability of anything is Google. I think we should add this one too, simply because it's the most frequently used way.
 * Popularity (among the top-100 and/or top-200)
 * Controversy (including: been mistaken for a real language)
 * Discussion (at least N independent discussions of the language; also: established notability outside of the conlanger community (how do we measure this?); and also: has the language received any particular attention, for example in the media or the press?)
 * Influence on other conlangs (notable or not?)

 * When considering Google hits, we should distinguish between mentions and discussions, and set a higher bar for the former than the latter. Maybe at least 50 independent mentions or 3 independent discussions, or some such. --Jim Henry | Talk 15:22, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes. And when counting ghits, I suggest we perform a simple google for the name of the language; when that name also has one or more different meanings, we should google for "CONLANG NAME" + "AUTHOR'S SURNAME"; if the search result is dominated by wikipedia and clones, we should google for "CONLANG NAME" (+ "AUTHOR'S SURNAME") "-wikipedia". --IJzeren Jan 15:55, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

At least N independent discussions
Note that several of the people voting Oppose on this criterion (and some of those supporting it) in Conlangs/Straw poll object to the inclusion of "mailing list postings" in the definition. We probably need to split this up or redefine it. Maybe:

 * There exist at least N extended discussions of the language (books, magazine articles, web pages, mailing list postings...) by authors other than the creator(s) of the language. If you support, specify a value for N and the average value will be used if this criteria passes.

and

 * There exist at least N extended discussions of the language in edited sources (books, magazine articles, online peer-reviewed journals, moderated newsgroups, etc.) by authors other than the creator(s) of the language. If you support, specify a value for N and the average value will be used if this criteria passes.

--Jim Henry | Talk 19:58, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, you certainly have a point. But do you really think it's worth the effort to split the question the way you propose? If you ask me, that's making things more complicated again. People always have the possibility to add a comment to their vote, and things like this will of course be taking into account. Well, okay, let me think this over, I'll try if I can come up with something... --IJzeren Jan 21:24, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Personally, I like the first version. I think the "authors other than the conlang creator" is sufficient guard against gaming the system to get non-notable languages included.  But I wanted to come up with an alternative that would satisfy the people who objected to it.  I've posted messages to the talk pages of those who objected asking them to comment here. If it does satisfy their objections, then the modified version might get unanimous support (based on the votes so far on the straw poll page) -- which is probably worth some tinkering.
 * I'm a little surprised that no one objected to the "web pages" clause; it seems to me that, other things equal, a well thought-out mailing list posting by someone other than the conlang creator and a well thought-out review on the same person's personal website are of equal value in establishing verifiability, and both are slightly less valuable than reviews of similar quality in edited sources whether printed or online. --Jim Henry | Talk 22:01, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Yeah, I guess you're right. Okay then, I'll adopt you proposal. --IJzeren Jan 07:43, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Agreed, though I still have reservations that the first definition might allow crapflooding by enthusiasts, regardless of the merits or otherwise of the language. What I mean is, how do you judge whether the discussion has merit or not. Does a long discussion with a few very good threads and a lot of noise around it count for as much as a slightly more focused but on the whole shorter discussion? --Kgaughan 21:48, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed, though I still have reservations that the first definition might allow crapflooding by enthusiasts, regardless of the merits or otherwise of the language. What I mean is, how do you judge whether the discussion has merit or not. Does a long discussion with a few very good threads and a lot of noise around it count for as much as a slightly more focused but on the whole shorter discussion? --Kgaughan 21:48, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Other criteria
As for the remaining criteria, I think these can mostly stay as they are. The question: "Was created by J.R.R. Tolkien" and "... by Marc Okrand" should IMO be put as "Was created by someone in particular". This is the famous notability-by-proxy discussion. That way we have: Two other suggested criteria, "Worked by m people for n years" and "Differential criteria due to purpose" are IMO too hard to implement.
 * Was created before a certain year (1900/1950)
 * Has an ISO code
 * Has a Wikipedia
 * Was created by someone in particular
 * Is associated with a well developed conculture

 * The "someone in particular" should be better defined: for instance, "was created by someone who has a Wikipedia article about them, and said article is getting too long to include discussion of all of their works in the main biographical article, so it makes sense to spin off their minor conlangs as separate articles". Can you suggest a way to make this more concise? --Jim Henry | Talk 13:20, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Not really, no. I'll happily adopt your formulation... --IJzeren Jan 13:22, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Maybe if it were phrased something like, "Is a {insert better word than "meaningful" here} part of a notable person's body of work" it would better? Regardless of how it's phrased, I'm opposed to it on the GOOPTI principle.  Same with the well-developed conculture one.  Way I see it, if a conculture's well-developed, the conculture deserves an article.  The conlang, though, is just part of that conculture, and 1)needs to be a part of that conculture's article so that the conculture article's less stubby, and 2)can't necessarily "stand on its own" independent of the rest of the conculture.  The Literate Engineer 02:27, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

And now my proposal
Based on the points mentioned above, I have come to an alternative questionnaire. Since the vote has been stalled and everything is under discussion again, the votes will be discarded anyway, and we might as well revise the whole procedure. Here is my proposal, based on the current questionnaire, which I honestly believe is a little more organised, a little easier to fill out and much easier to apply.

Number of speakers (MAJOR/MINOR/OPPOSE)
What is the minimum amount of speakers required for fulfilling this option (pick one)
 * Has/had 10 speakers
 * Has/had 25 speakers
 * Has/had 100 speakers
 * Has/had 250 speakers
 * Has/had 1000 speakers

Completeness (MAJOR/MINOR/OPPOSE)
Which of the following options must be fulfilled?
 * Has a complete grammar (yes/no)
 * Has a vocabulary of at least N words (N = 0 / 500 / 1,000 / 2,500 / 5,000 / 10,000 / 50,000)
 * Has a public corpus of at least N words (N = 0 / 1,000 / 5,000 / 10,000 / 50,000 / 100,000)

Uniqueness (MAJOR/MINOR/OPPOSE)
Which of the following can make a language unique?
 * Has an extreme grammar or vocabulary (yes/no)
 * Has a unique script (yes/no)
 * Sets itself challenging artistic goals, and achieves them (yes/no)
 * Demonstrates plausible historical derivation from a natural language (yes/no)
 * Demonstrates plausible historical derivation from another conlang (yes/no)
 * Is the exponent of a particular genre (yes/no)

Publication (MAJOR/MINOR/OPPOSE)
Which of the following count as publication? (Note: I think the three options are redundant here)
 * A book has been published about the language (yes/no)
 * A book has been published in the language (yes/no)
 * It has been used in professionally published media (yes/no)

Reputation (MAJOR/MINOR/OPPOSE)
Which of the following can make this condition true?
 * The language is in the Top-100/200 of Langmaker.com (100/200/no)
 * Caused controversy (including: been mistaken for a real language) (yes/no)
 * Produces at least N Googlehits
 * At least N independent discussions of the language
 * Received attention in the popular/scientific media (yes/no)
 * Inspired other conlangs (only notable conlangs/any conlangs/not at all)
 * Has established notability inside of the conlanger community (yes/no)
 * Has established notability outside of the conlanger community (yes/no)

Year of creation (MAJOR/MINOR/OPPOSE)

 * Was created before 1900/1950

Notability by proxy (MAJOR/MINOR/OPPOSE)
Which of the following can make this condition true?
 * The language was created by a notable person (yes/no)
 * The language is associated with a notable conculture (yes/no)

Next question
How many of the criteria need to be fulfilled for inclusion?
 * 1 major or 2 minor
 * 1 major or 3 minor
 * 1 major or 4 minor
 * otherwise, namely ...

Opinions? --IJzeren Jan 09:45, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm almost ready to say 2 majors and 4-6 minors. As noted, only three or four conlangs have a number of speakers in the thousands, and really only Esperanto has native speakers. And I have a hard time thinking of anything other than thousands of speakers as being enough to establish notability all on its own. Although, the "extremity" thing in the uniqueness category, like for Toki Pona, almost has me convinced that it alone is enough. And of course, the circular reasoning of "Has established notability outside of the conlang community". That one, while I like having a requirement that it be notable outside a small, specialized field (which is why I proposed it), it's pretty useless to say that something's notable because it's... notable. The Literate Engineer 02:21, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, I just added 250 and 1000 to the # of speakers criterion. If you believe that "anything other than thousands of speakers" should be enough to establish notability all on its own, you will have the possibility of voting accordingly. --IJzeren Jan 08:05, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Voting procedure
Given the discussion about the way votes are counted, and the (IMO not entirely incorrect) suspiction of some that the current way of counting the votes is a little biased towards inclusion, I'd like to propose the following system, which basically is a variant on what Jim proposed (with the exception of his third point "if Minor comes third, Minor votes are redistributed ...", which IMO is indeed a little biased against minor criteria).

For each of the criteria, everybody has three voting options:
 * SUPPORT (Major): Indicates notability, and merits inclusion.
 * SUPPORT (Minor): Contributes to notability, but more than 2/3/4 of the minor criteria must be fulfilled to warrant inclusion.
 * OPPOSE: Should not be used for determining conlang's notability; leads to false results, abusable, et multiple cetera.

First, Support and Oppose opinions will be counted; whichever has consensus will be considered community opinion. Then, if Support was chosen, the Oppose votes will be added to the MINOR votes.

In this way, I hope to address the issues raised by Jim Henry and The Literate Engineer on Wikipedia talk:Conlangs/Straw poll. The reasoning: once a majority has spoken out for including something as a criterion, the Oppose votes should not be discarded after that; since one who opposes the idea would in all likeliness rather see it as a minor than as a major criterion, those votes are added there. On the other hand, it cannot be safely assumed that someone who votes Support (minor) would rather have it as a Major criterion than not at all.

For example, if the result of a criterion is 5 MAJOR, 2 MINOR, 5 OPPOSE, we conclude that a majority of 7 to 5 favours inclusion of the criterion, but that another majority of 7 to 5 does not want it as a MAJOR criterion. Hence, the conclusion is MINOR, even though MINOR in itself got less votes than the other two options.

A similar system could IMO also be applied to the subcriteria that have more options than just y/n (like, number of speakers, criteria with a variable N).

In addition, I agree with the current "rule", that "only registered user's opinions will be recognised; opinions of non-registered users will be ignored, even from IPs with many edits, because there is no way of knowing how many people an IP address represents."

Comments? --IJzeren Jan 08:44, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

 * That sounds good; it addresses some problems with my counter-proposal that Almafeta and others pointed out.
 * Re: only registered users; should this be "only registered users as of a certain date" ? --Jim Henry | Talk 20:13, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Normally, that would be "users registered before the poll was started". That should be sufficient to prevent people from brushing up their sockpuppets! ;) --IJzeren Jan 21:18, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Also: on VfD and similar votes/polls/whatever, generally a 2/3 majority is required to show clear consensus; a slight majority is not sufficient. Maybe we should do the same here. --Jim Henry | Talk 20:16, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

 * The problem is only that practically "no consensus" would equal "oppose" in that case. In other words, no criterion. I'd rather say that in case of a close vote, we simply mention it in our conclusion. --IJzeren Jan 21:18, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Actually, now that I'm thinking of it, I'm having some second thoughts about this whole consensus thing, too. If you look at all those numerous conlang-related VFDs we have had in the past, you can see several recurring arguments used for and against. But the conclusion is always the same: consensus, i.e. a majority of at least 2/3, is required to delete an article. It's not the other way round, that a 2/3 majority is required for having it. In this poll, we are discussing inclusive criteria, primarily meant to be used in VFD discussions. If you follow the same logic as used in the VFDs, the oppose votes would need to form a 2/3 majority for a criterion to be not included.

If we would have done the reverse, i.e. asked for criteria to proof that the conlang is non-notable, things would have been complete different: a qualified majority would have been required for not using a criterion. In that case, we could have said: Language X is non-notable, because it has less than N speakers, it produces less than N Google hits, it has been mentioned in less than N independent discussions, it does not have an ISO code, it does not play a role in a significant work of fiction, etc.

--IJzeren Jan 14:18, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Please consider dropping the voting, it's probably a waste of time
I am a little surprised that you spend so much energy discussing technicalities of voting. I'm afraid that you might be wasting your time. Let me bring up some interesting quotes from the Centralized discussion guidelines (since this discussion is linked from the Centralized discussions box on VfD.

 * The point of these discussions is to establish consensus about a recurring theme that comes up on VFD or similar pages. (emphasis added)
 * The point is to establish a consensual guideline through discussion, not to establish a rule through voting.
 * Occasionally, however, it will be necessary to hold a vote to establish firmly where consensus lies, or to find out which of several options is preferred, e.g. for a template layout.
 * If there is disagreement on what a standard, naming convention, or layout should be, then an approval vote should be held between the different options.

While Kim Bruning was obviously wrong in saying "voting" is never allowed, my interpretation of the above is that it mainly should be used to determine "formatting" and yes/no-choices (e.g. proposals for CSD criteria). Guidelines on inclusion of content should be primarily be developed through discussion, and if it isn't possible to reach consensus, there is no possibility to establish a guideline by staging a vote and "winning" by a narrow majority. What will happen in such a case is that things will be resolved on a case-by-case basis on VfD anyway (and the vote will have been a waste of everyone's time).

My point is that there simply is no consensus for inclusion of constructed languages based on merit ("Completeness", "Uniqueness" and, to some extent, "Reputation" above). This was raised in the discussion before the vote, e.g. here, by DenisMoskowitz and others, but I can't see that any real effort was made to discuss this through and reach a consensus conclusion. Instead, a (premature) vote was held. I then raised much the same point here and got some response from a few people - but now you seem to be preparing to hold another vote based on the same principles, albeit better structured.

Looking at the aborted "vote"/straw poll (which people still seem to be "voting" in), there seems to be significant opposition to almost every merit-based criteria. Taking into account that this page still seem to have attracted mainly people interested in conlangs, the opinions outside this group is likely to be even more negative towards such criteria. This theory is further strengthened by the recent VfD debate on the constructed language "Lara". While this example might not have fulfilled all your proposed criteria (I'm aware that IJzeren Jan voted to delete it), it might be relevant to point out that the rationales quoted by voters included general statements such as: I'm sparing you the outright mockery of conlangs from other voters. Let's just say that there is currently a massive majority for deletion, and that this majority seems to share the view that the notability of a constructed language has nothing to do with its completeness or linguistic inventiveness. Either you understand the rationales behind what seems to be the majority definition of notability, and try to reach criteria that comply with this view (preferrably by discussion rather than by voting) or the destiny of individual conlangs will still be decided on a one-by-one basis on VfD, regardless of what happens here.
 * "non-notable language not in common use"
 * "original research"
 * "Invented languages should be included if they are notable for academic (e.g., interesting and discussed example) or cultural (e.g., Klingon, etc.) reasons, even if those reasons are minor. No claim to notability exists here."
 * "for a conlang to be noteworthy, it needs a LOT of notoriety outside its circle, in the mass media, etc. Klingon, Esperanto, and Tolkien's works fulfill those criteria, almost nothing else does."

Don't get me wrong. I have the greatest respect for the conlang hobby. I'm interested in linguistics myself. I haven't, and I will not, make fun of people who invent languages as a hobby. I just think most of them aren't more notable - i.e. more encyclopedic - than unpublished novels or demo recordings. Furthermore, I think this process went the wrong way rather early, and I just want everyone spending their time around here as constructively as possible. I don't think holding another vote based on the proposal above will be to do that.

It seems to me that many of the people intrested in constructed languages that have been active in this discussion have tried to devise a rudimentary peer review system of conlangs. I can understand this wish - and even the need - for this, but I am thorougly convinced that Wikipedia isn't the place for such a process, for various reasons that ultimately boil down to the fundamental principles of Wikipedia. (My advice would be, for those of you who are interested in this, to try to establish such a process in some other forum - e.g. the conlang wiki. With time, it might even develop into something that can influence notability judgements in Wikipedia.)

In order to be constructive, I'd like to try entirely different take on the issue of guidelines. My proposed guideline is short and refers to established principles for other topics:
 * Constructed languages can be regarded as works of science or works of art. Their notability should be judged by the standards generally applied to articles on such works; they should be the subject of significant peer-reviewed discussion and/or significant media attention. If a constructed language has (or has had) a significant number of active users, it can also be notable as a language in its own right. The standard requisites of Verifiability apply to any such claim.

I think that this would be much simpler and far more useful than a set of rules entirely unique to conlangs. If you don't agree, I'd politely recommend you to discuss why, rather than to ignore this and simply hold another vote. / Alarm 21:52, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

 * The vote had been announced for August 28th or later, if the discussion was still ongoing. Since the discussion had pretty much died down by the 28th, with no significant new activity in a week or more, I suppose Almafeta thought it perfectly suitable to start the voting on the previously announced date.  Then, of course, Mr. Bruning deleted the vote page and the resuling VfU controversy got a lot more people involved -- a good result, though I wish we had announced this more widely and gotten more people involved earlier.

 * I agree that completeness and merit alone do not make a conlang verifiable or notable. I expect that, with a larger cross-section of Wikipedians now involved, the criteria some people proposed which rely solely on completeness or artistic merit will have no chance of getting a consensus in their favor -- indeed they didn't have much chance even when the discussion was dominated by conlangers in the first week or two.

 * Your counter-proposal seems fairly good, but still a little too vague. I and a number of others think we should have some more quantifiable criteria to point at when people who dismiss the notability of conlanging in general nominate articles on notable conlangs for deletion.  But maybe you're right and we have no chance of getting the proposed policy accepted.

 * I've tried to steer discussion about a peer-review process for conlangs over to the Conlang Wikicity, without much success so far. --Jim Henry | Talk 00:01, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm with Jim here. Note the following things:
 * Of course, I would also prefer to reach consensus by discussing things and not by voting. Things however have made it pretty clear that in the case of conlangs that's pretty much undoable.
 * Quite a few things have been discussed thoroughly between the end of July and the beginning of September. Now the discussion has pretty much died out since a week or so.
 * The reason of this vote/poll was in the first place to establish some quantifiable, verifiable ways to measure notability. Okay, it's often mentioned that notability is not a criterion, but in the meantime people use it constantly in VfDs. While your counterproposal surely makes sense, it doesn't solve the basic problem that significance remains a purely subjective matter.
 * You will NEVER reach full consensus about including other conlangs than Esperanto. Even some of the "heavier" languages (Toki Pona, Verdurian) survived their VfDs rather for a lack of consensus than for a clear consensus for keeping them. Sadly, there are a lot of people around who think conlanging is merely making up gibberish à la "asdfdksfalj" and voilà, you have a conlang! Consequently, these people will ALWAYS vote for deletion, no matter the counterarguments.
 * Speaking about counterarguments, how real are debates here anyway? On VfDs I constantly see people using arguments that simply aren't true; but even when someone proves them wrong, they rarely change their vote. And it stands.
 * BTW, I notice that those who ardently seek to remove conlang-related stuff from Wikipedia, haven't spoken up at all yet. I personally find that a pity.
 * I repeat: the list is NOT a set of proposals I and others like to be approved. It's merely an inventory of possible criteria, brought in during the discussion. To me personally, a thing like uniqueness (especially the famous "unique script" thing) has little or nothing to do with significance.
 * The conclusion of all this is IMO: if we don't vote now, we will probably never vote. Unless someone comes up with significant new input for the debate, I'd like to proceed.
 * --IJzeren Jan 08:17, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I still wonder what you think you are going to accomplish with this voting procedure. You are probably right that discussion had died down when the first vote was called, but I don't think that is always an argument for calling a vote. Hard work ought to be put into trying to reach a conclusion through discussion.
 * Note that a rough consensus, i.e. a large majority, is necessary for any guideline to be valid. "Winning" a vote with a small majority does not mean having reached a "consensus". One of few good reasons to call a vote is if there is significant and ardent opposition to a widely agreed proposal from what most people involved in the discussion believe to be a clear minority. In such a case a vote can be held to prove that a rough consensus exists. If, on the other hand, there is such a wide disagreement that a mainstream proposal can't be reached, it's quite possible to conclude in advance that the outcome of a vote won't be a rough consensus. And since no consensus about a guideline means that there is no guideline, there's no point in taking it to that point. What are you going to do with the result? You simply won't be able to use a 5-to-4 majority in a vote to convince anyone on VfD that an article ought to be kept or deleted - and even less so, a number of 5-to-4 majorities for different things being "minor" and "major" criteria, and others not.
 * A good guideline has to have wide recognition and respect. It needs to be easy to understand and convincingly phrased. Note that if I'm not mistaken, one of the most used guidelines on the inclusion/exclusion of content, WP:MUSIC, was developed without any voting at all.
 * Holding a representative vote on Wikipedia is a major operation. It should be announced in various relevant forums. Since it ideally involves a large number of people, it is rather energy-consuming. In my opinion, this creates an obligation not to stage a vote/poll unless it is absolutely necessary - and to avoid making it more complicated than necessary. In my opinion, the proposed new poll is way too complicated - in fact, more complicated than any other Wikipedia poll I've came across. It includes all imaginable criteria, including a lot of proposals that almost noone seems to seriously support any more. Having a "unique script" option to vote on will just strengthen the misconception that there is actually a bunch of conlangers actively supporting such a proposal - because the way things are normally done, it wouldn't have been taken to a vote otherwise.
 * I don't think your arguments for holding another vote are convincing. But if you decide to call a vote anyway, I'd recommend you to conduct it in a different manner. Rather than voting on a massive number of individual criteria, ask the proponents of different points of view to create comprehensive proposals that summarize their positions. Try to compromise in order to reduce their number to two or three, or at least as few as possible. Discuss them thoroughly, so you agree that their phrasing is unambiguous. Then ask voters to choose which one they support. This will make it all easier to understand. Asking all Wikipedians to choose between a number of different voting alternatives for every concievable criteria will just scare most non-conlangers away. It will also make the result of the voting impossible to interpret. / Alarm 19:44, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree with Alarm. This is not the way to stage a vote. It's too complicated even for those who have a specific subject. I would prefer if it could be solved by true consensus rather than a vote. / Peter Isotalo 20:54, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Look folks, don't get me wrong: if there is a way of building a true consensus about the inclusion of conlangs, I'd much prefer that to a vote. But tell me one thing: having read the discussion pages (basically, Conlangs and all its subpages), can you see a single point of consensus there? Well, perhaps that a language with more than 1000 speakers is therefore notable by itself; but that qualifies only Esperanto and Interlingua, both languages that would qualify for a variety of other reasons anyway. The sad truth is that there are quite some people around here who hold some personal grudge against "conlangers and neologists" for reasons I completely fail to understand (obviously there is something in conlanging that offends certain people), who would happily delete ALL conlang articles if they only had the chance. And on the other side of the spectrum there are people who wouldn't mind including ALL conlangs here, arguing that WP is not paper and that notability is not a factor anyway. Ergo: virtually no criterion that might lead to the in- or exclusion of a conlang (except perhaps >1000 speakers and a bunch of books/movies) will be supported by a true consensus. But keep in mind what the original purpose of this whole discussion is! In conlang VFDs people constantly use the phrase "non-notable"; all we are trying to do here is giving some body to the whole concept of notability.
 * Now, I agree with you that a vote is not the best way of building consensus. But keep in mind that this poll is by no means meant to be the end of the discussion. On the contrary: I hope the poll will give some food to a renewed, and more specific, discussion about the successive criteria. The poll itself is only supposed to inventarise, to make it clear how people really think about all successive criteria. It is not meant to be Set In Stone after its completion. --IJzeren Jan 06:28, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

 * What kind of attempts has anyone made to read through proposals from various people and to summarize them? The current summary used for this poll is wholly inappropriate because of it's extreme level of detail and very absolute statements "X number of speakers", "X number of debates", "X number of books".
 * As far as I'm concerned, any truly notable conlang (and I'm not just talking about Esperanto-type notability) can demonstrate that notability in a way that should be obvious to non-fans or inherent deletionists like myself (even if I happen to be a general lingonerd). If it isn't obvious, I think people should fight harder to make it notable by using and cultivating and not lower the notability-definition of Wikipedia to something that could include almost anything.
 * Peter Isotalo 14:58, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

 * IJzeren Jan, I'll have to say it again: If you can't build a true consensus (meaning a significant majority) around a guideline, you won't have a valid guideline. As Centralized discussion puts it: The point is to establish a consensual guideline through discussion, not to establish a rule through voting. There is no need use a Wikipedia-wide poll to "inventarise" every single imaginable criteria. If you, I, Peter, Jim and more than nine out of ten voters in the Lara deletion debate agree that "a unique script" or a vocabulary of 7,000 words does not in itself contribute to the notability of a conlang, then there is absolutely no need to include those criteria in a vote aiming to find criteria for inclusion with a consensus behind them. It is simply a waste of everyone's time.
 * I'd be happy to discuss criteria for notability, rather than voting on them, or discussing whether or not to vote. If you don't agree with the proposal in my first comment above, I would like to urge you to specify what is wrong with it and try to formulate a viable alternative - a simple and concise set of rules that you would like to use instead - rather than staging vote after vote. If such a guideline proposal is well-phrased and convincing it might actually help persuade sceptics that some conlangs are indeed notable. The proposed vote will do the exact opposite. / Alarm 19:46, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Alarm is right that there is not much point in working on this vote unless there is a reasonable chance of coming up with a consensus. For that reason, I would suggest again that: (1) we require 2/3 majority support for a criterion to get in into the final policy, and (2) that we drop from the revised straw poll any criteria which, based on the results of the first poll, obviously have no consensus in favor. It would probably be a good idea to discuss the proposed criteria for a while longer now that more people have gotten involved, and make sure, before setting a vote date, that we've announced this discussion everywhere that people might reasonably expect such a thing to be announced. ...So, where should we announce this that we haven't already? And, besides the "unique script", which other criteria should we drop from the poll because it's already obvious they have no consensus? --Jim Henry | Talk 22:54, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Alright, if we are going to use the Old straw poll as a source of preliminary information, it might be a good idea to inventarise the results:

Preliminary results of the Old Straw Poll
'''Note: the vote has been aborted in an early stage, and these results are NOT to be interpreted as community consensus. They are only supposed to give an impression of the direction consensus was going into.'''

Based on the above, we can come to the following conclusions:
 * As for the # of speakers, we agree that anything above 100 speakers counts as a MAJOR criterion, and anything between 30 and 100 as a MINOR criterion.
 * Furthermore, there seems to be consensus about including the following as MAJOR criteria: "caused controversy", "has an ISO code", "inspired a notable conlang", "at least N independent discussions of the language by people other than the author", "a public corpus of at least 100,000 words".
 * A book in or about the language counts at least as a MINOR criterion.
 * The following criteria have a simple majority against them: "has 10 speakers", "among 200 most popular conlangs", "was created by J.R.R. Tolkien", "was created by Marc Okrand", "can translate the Babel text", "has a unique script", "set itself challenging artistic goals and achieves them", "has been used in at least 5 translation relays", "at least 10 original texts", "demonstrates plausible historical derivation", "contributes to the notability of another conlang". I suggest we omit these from further discussion.
 * All the other criteria need further discussion.

If we decide to discuss only those elements that are supported by a 2/3 majority, this is what we are left with:

--IJzeren Jan 09:11, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Towards consensus instead of polls

 * Moved to Conlangs/Towards consensus instead of polls

Well. Before any vote, straw poll or similar, we should first define in a way that leads to consensus which criteria should be used to decide if a constructed language is notable or not. Then a consensus on how to mesure the criteria, and finally a consensus (this last much probably vote driven) on which would be the mark.

Almafeta's original proposal of major and minor criteria has dominated the discusion... it seems we already has a concensus of using a major/minor criteria to judge notability. Also, proposed criteria are positive criteria (if a conlang does not fullfill all of them but one major, then is deemed notable).

Number of speakers of the language seems also a criterium to be important to positively stablish notability. (Not having speakers does not disqualify a language.) How to measure "speaker" has still no concensus. If it should be major, minor or the marks to determinate the major and minor limits do not have concensus yet.

Corpus in the language seems to be important, however I am not sure if we have a concensus yet. Less so how to measure corpus (printed works? ISBN printed works? translations?, etc.); nor the limits of the gauge.

Completeness of the language seems not to be a concentual result. (Probably some think that a good corpus should show enough completeness.)

People talking about the language, particularly people outside the creator(s) of the language in a series of verifiable sources, seems to be a criterium we most agree (a consensus?). We do not have agreed yet on how to measure this, but some elements are helping: books written on the language, discussion on the language in several internet phora, controversy (as stated by the press), etc. could be used.

There seems not to be any concensus about notability by proxy. Either minor Tolkien languages, languages belonging to alternative worlds like Star Treek, etc. If there would be, there should be no problem on how to mesure this.

Peer review... well, nobody seems to have support my idea of per peer review for artlangs, however Taliessin suggestions are pretty much what I had in mind.

So: my proposal

 * 1) We should create discussions on different topics to establish consensus about rather those criteria serve to measure if a language is or is not notable, or not. Numbers should not be involved in these discutions.  What exactly to measure, and how exactly to measure, sould not be important in this stage to determinate if we agree or not that the criteria is worth.
 * 2) Is number of speakers important?
 * 3) Is completeness important?
 * 4) Is a corpus important?
 * 5) Are outside discussions (including controversy) important?
 * 6) Is notability by proxy a valid point?
 * 7) Is per peer review a valid criterium?
 * 8) It should be published what seems the concentual result of each discusion: "the following elements are important to judge if a conlang might be notable: ..."
 * 9) Only on those criteriavjudged as important, discusion should continue on each alternative to measure the criteria. For example, if having a corpus is important:
 * 10) Having books published on the language.
 * 11) Having books with ISDN published on the language.
 * 12) Having a verifiably corpus of certain size.
 * 13) Having professional media shown the langauge.
 * 14) It should be published what seems the concentual result of each discussion: "for measuring the corpus a book with an ISDN should be enough".
 * 15) When the criteria needs a gauge mark, then a poll should be openned to stablish that mark.
 * 16) Marks should be published.

All these published results should be edited in policy format in Conlangs (with all these discussions moved to propper places. Then, everytime somebody seems that a non-notable conlang is being published, can well go and review the policy, and the policy can be refered to in any VfD (or however they are now called).

This policy will not overrule policies about Original research, Vanity, etc. which can also be invocked in an VfD.

— Carlos Th (talk) 21:24, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Hmmm. We probably need a step 0: are conlangs a valid topic for w:en?  — Carlos Th (talk) 21:27, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

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Quirindi

Quirindi ( or ) is a small town on the North West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia, in Liverpool Plains Shire. At the, Quirindi had a population of 2,602. It is the nearest link to Gunnedah to the northwest and Tamworth to the north. The local economy is based on agriculture, with broadacre farming dominant on the black soil plains to the west and livestock grazing in the hilly eastern part of the district.

The town is on the Kamilaroi Highway 15 km northwest of its junction with the New England Highway at Willow Tree.

History
The indigenous Gamilaroi people lived in the area for many thousands of years. The name Quirindi comes from the Gamilaraay language, with a number of meanings having been attributed it, which include "nest in the hills", "place where fish breed" and "dead tree on mountain top". Early spellings of the name included "Cuerindi" and "Kuwherindi".

Quirindi Post Office opened on 1 January 1858. The town was gazetted on 19 February 1884.

Heritage listings
Quirindi has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
 * Main Northern railway: Quirindi railway station

Sport
Quirindi sporting facilities include several sporting ovals catering for athletics, cricket (Falcons), Rugby League (Quirindi Grasshoppers), Rugby Union (Quirindi Lions), soccer (Qurindi Football Club- QFC formed in 2011), basketball and netball. Other sporting complexes include the racecourse, polo grounds, rodeo, campdrafting, an 18-hole golf course, two tennis clubs, three bowling greens, gun club and swimming complex.

Local Teams/Events

 * Quirindi Falcons Cricket Club
 * Quirindi Lions RUFC
 * Quirindi Lions FC (Soccer)

One major issue faced by Quirindi's sporting scene was the demise of the local rugby league club, the Quirindi Grasshoppers, who have been in recess since 2017 after years of financial problems. This has left the town without a team in its most popular sport, and forces local players to either travel to play for Murrurundi or Werris Creek, or give up the game they love entirely.

Quirindi Jockey Club plays host to seven race meetings each year including the Boxing Day Races which attracts thousands of people each year.

A motorcycle club is located 5 km north-east of Quirindi on the Borah Creek Road, with a 1.2 km motorcross track named Stu Johnson Park.

Quirindi annual events

 * Quirindi Rural Heritage Festival- 1st weekend in May
 * Quirindi Show- September
 * Boxing Day Races- December
 * Prime Stock Show / Hook and Hoof- August
 * Nick Tooth Memorial Rugby Tens Tournament
 * Sunflowers on the Plains - January

Surrounding towns
Werris Creek is 20 km north of Quirindi, following the path of the explorer Thomas Mitchell.

Wallabadah is located 15 km east of Quirindi on the New England Highway.

Spring Ridge is about 50 km west of Quirindi.

Transport
Quirindi railway station is located on the Main North railway line, 392 km from Sydney. The station opened in 1877, and continues to be served by daily rail services operated by a NSW TrainLink Xplorer train to and from Sydney and Armidale/Moree.

Quirindi Airport is the local airfield, though most commercial flights in the region use Tamworth Regional Airport.

Tamworth Buslines operates a bus service between Quirindi and Tamworth.

Notable people

 * Ellen Savage, sole surviving nurse from the sinking of the AHS Centaur, advocate for career nursing
 * Sir John Oscar Cramer, Australian politician and founding member of Liberal Party
 * Ben Smith, former Parramatta Eels NRL player
 * Andy Saunders, former NRL player for Canterbury Bulldogs
 * Tony Windsor, politician

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The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 06:40, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

FeedFeeds
Only 50 Google hits, doesn't try and state notability, seems to be vanity and advertisement Halo 09:48, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: JosephSamuel, a related article by the same author is also VFDed. Halo 09:58, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment:Its a new service. Give them a chance. Does wikki add a page based on google hits only?

 * Delete; nothing notable about this service compared to thousands of others. Sdedeo 19:52, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

--Jose sam 03:02, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Please Keep: Please dont delete this without even trying it. It has a few google hits because of two reasons : 1) Its started just a few weeks ago. 2)I dont have enough resource or marketing power to increase the google hits(because this is developed as an individual effort). Give this a chance.. the rankings will follow.. I have no objection in deleting the other page about me, but please dont delete this. The article was created in similar way of a similar service, where there was a link to the page of its creator. So I followed it. If that was wrong, please delete the other page(about me), but please leave this page. I humbly request you to try the service before concluding that there is nothing notable in this.

 * Delete; Not unique or popular enough to be notable. Wikipedia’s purpose is not to provide marketing but information on established topics. - FlooK 18:01, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete; Not any different than hundreds of others. If it gets popular enough and unique enough to warrant a unique entry, then a unique entry can be created then. For now, there is no reason to have this cluttering up wikipedia. The site doesn't even do what the author says it does.
 * Delete. "Its started just a few weeks ago." Well, fine, good luck with it (seriously), but please come back when it's of wider note. MCB 07:32, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

So I kindly request to consider these while taking a decision on this. --Jose sam 17:44, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I completely respect the comments of all other members who all are more experienced with wiki process. But after reading through the wiki policies I came to know the following points. I hope those are applicable for this case also.
 * Lack of fame doesnot constitute Vanity
 * Lack of notability is not a criterion for deletion.
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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The result of the debate was delete. --Tony Sidaway Talk 09:24, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Medical politics
original research/vanity/pseudoscience Ben-w 00:25, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. All the above (except for vanity.) At best, an article with a POV, ill-descriptive name, and poorly written, POV contents. --Prosfilaes 00:29, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It appears this fate would be appropriate for all articles to date by, for the same reasons, mainly vanity. --IByte 00:33, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Crank, non-notable. -EDM 00:41, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. --GregAsche 00:44, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. -- BD2412 talk 01:05, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; Pseudo, POV | Celcius 01:13, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per above. ManoaChild 01:21, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. *drew 03:20, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete although I can imagine an instance where it might work, but not like this -- Ryan Norton T 10:49, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per above--Isotope23 14:02, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for reasons well stated above. Anville 18:19, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.