Talk:Furry convention

List and lead paragraph
You might want to explain what furry fandom is in the lead paragraph. The way it essentially reads now is that a furry convention is a convention for furry people. That does not say much. How about: (begin) A furry convention is a formal gathering of people who appreciate the fictional combination of humans with non-human animals. These conventions permit people to meet, exchange ideas, do business, and participate in entertainment and recreation centered around attributing human characteristics and qualities to non-human beings. Originated in the mid-1980s in California, there now are over 25 furry conventions worldwide, most of which are held in North America and Europe for the benefit of members of the furry fandom. (end). Also, you might want to make the list a separate list article. One last point, isn't Japan huge on furry fandom-- Jreferee 01:47, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd been thinking the lead was a little too short as well. I wanted to get it up to start with, though, and it seemed to be sufficient, if not ideal. What "furry" is can be hard to pin down, which is why I tried to refer people to the article than explain it outright. I'm sure something can be done, though - right now I'm a little exhausted, but I'll look in the morning. As for the list, I'd have done that if it were a little longer. However, I don't think we're quite into list of science fiction conventions levels yet, and unlike that list, this is (to the best of my knowledge) comprehensive.
 * Japan is big on characters like Pokémon and Inuyasha, but they're not exactly the same thing. The closest established equivalent Japan has to furry fandom is kemono, and even there, though the content looks somewhat the same, it's coming at it from a slightly different direction. Kemono might be said to be their own equivalent of funny animal - the art form which led to furry fandom. There do appear to be furry fans there, and they have started their own convention, TransFur. It'd be interesting to go over and see their take on it. GreenReaper 02:12, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

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

Badges: Unique to Furry Conventions?
In the "Did you know" section in which this article was featured, badges were listed as being one of the ways Furries identify themselves at Furry conventions, but it comes off as if only people at Furry conventions wear numerous badges as identification. I've been to enough science fiction conventions to know that it's not unique to furries to wear the badges from every convention you've attended. I'm not sure if this is important enough to even be addressed, but I wanted to point it out anyway. SailorAlphaCentauri 16:35, 30 November 2006 (UTC)


 * At furry conventions, people often commission artists in the Artists' Alley (or outside of conventions) to create custom badges that identify their character - here's an example. The badge does not just identify them by name, but by species/features/colouration as well. I'm not sure how much this applies to science fiction conventions, as I have only been to one, but it seemed like there were not many custom badges at them - just the badges given by the convention (which often have art on as well, but are not typically customized other than the name). GreenReaper 16:47, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Dealers den

 * Copied from User talk:GreenReaper, as it's relevant here . . .

Hello, I saw you were helping Argox with his Spanish translation of the article furry convention. While reading (and correcting) the translation, I came across an ambiguous phrase which could be translated to Spanish in two ways with different meanings:
 * (...) a Dealers Den where art and comic book distributors and other merchants can sell their wares for a fee

So, does it mean that the merchants have to pay a fee to be allowed to sell, or that (as is usually the case) it's the merchants who charge a fee to the buyers?

Thanks in advance for your help, --Fibonacci 11:31, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * You have found a phrase that could be explained better in the article. In fact, both meanings are implied here. The Dealers Den is a place where dealers (either professional artists with lots of prints or framed works, or dealers of other people's art/comics/books/T-shirts/plush toys/fashion accessories) may rent a table from the convention, for a price - at Anthrocon, anywhere from $75 for half a table (3 foot by 3 foot) to $525 for a square island (10 foot by 10 foot) . They may then sell to the people who attend the convention.
 * This contrasts with the Artists' Alley, which usually does not charge artists for space to sell - however, the space is much smaller (see the pictures in the article to compare), there is no guarantee that they will get it if there are too many people (some conventions are starting to sell small badges to get a good place for $10-$20), they must remain there most of the time to keep their place, and they must only sell their own work.
 * Thank you for assisting Argox with the translation, and for your work against vandalism of the article. GreenReaper 23:28, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

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

That csi episode
How does that episode of CSI represent or not furry cons? Excluding the murder of course?--Tbmorgan74 04:28, 12 March 2007 (UTC)


 * According to WikiFur, and my own personal experience, not very well, except maybe for the start bit when they're walking through the halls past people selling furry trinkets. Even there, there are way too many fursuiters around. The maximum proportion I have seen is 15%, at both Midwest FurFest 2006 and Further Confusion 2007. See also this thread.


 * Since I know you're waiting for the furpile image, here it is. Note the lack of people having sex. ;-) GreenReaper 18:41, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * CSI went for the shock factor and sensationalized the idea of a furry con quite a bit. It grossly misrepresents what actually happens at a typical furry con, though I believe there were a couple of conventions in the past (one ConFurence in particular) in which a "fursuit orgy" did happen.  News of that might be what the CSI episode was partially based on.  But in general, fursuiters are in the vast minority of regular furries, and fursuiters who use their suits for anything more than a costume to walk around in and entertain the public with are in the vast minority of fursuiters in general. &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 23:49, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Questionable edit
I removed the following questionable statement and am copying it here in case it has any plausibility:
 * One of the biggest attendees is GuessMyUserName. He goes to every convention and wears a different fursuit to each one. His most notable one is the Lugia Fursuit.

--Mwalimu59 13:42, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It may be true, but I don't see that it's really all that notable. GreenReaper 20:49, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Rainfurrest?
I'm just wondering if there's a reason it's not on the list of conventions, and if it should be on there, where would we stick it? ...or should we just wait a month and a half for it to occur, then start looking for sources?Bengaley 18:08, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that out. I added it to the "Future Conventions" list.  It should be moved to "Current Conventions" once it's over in August and they announce their registration numbers. &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 18:28, 6 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I'll try to keep on top of this, as well. Bengaley 21:06, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Possible Merger of Anthrocon, ConFurance, Eurofurence, and Further Confusion into this Article
Someone on the WP Anthropomorphic mentioned possibly merging the articles for all the major furry conventions into this article. I've taken the liberty of setting up this as a forum for discussion about that idea.

Personally, I don't like the idea - not only is there enough primary sources on Anthrocon, Confurance, Euro, and FC to keep them on their own page, merging them into one single page would create a very large mess. But it's not only up to me, hence this discussion. Bengaley 21:27, 8 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Not a good idea. The articles about these are underdeveloped, but improving that is part of the point of the WikiProject. I'm sure there are verifiable sources available for them out there (Anthrocon alone had several from major Pittsburgh media sources this year and last). I merged and redirected the articles that I thought did not have such sources available or which would be too stubby when creating this article. GreenReaper 07:12, 10 July 2007 (UTC)


 * As you said, these were NeoFreak's notes apparently. *shrug* Copy-Paste tends to creat confusion =P. So I take it that nobody is seriously considering merging these articles together? ((I really need to learn to automatically 4x~ myself...))Bengaley 13:39, 10 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I personally don't take this idea serious Anthrocon, ConFurance, AnthroCon, and Further Confusion shall be merged into this article which is then merged into Furry Fandom. I think this goes a lil too far. What we can do is to edit the articles so they have a common standard, but this leads way out of t5he theme of this discussion.  --StalkerAT 14:03, 10 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree - keep the articles separate. Those are major conventions, and they each deserve their own pages as events.  Just expand the pages as appropriate for an encyclopedia, and link to WikiFur's articles whee and when necessary. &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 17:43, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

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

GA review by Mmoyer
First, let me say what an enjoyable and well-written article this is. The contributors have, overall, done a good job of representing the subject. The references seem complete, the tone is appropriately neutral, and the article is stable.

The only area for improvement that I see is that of coverage: There is no mention of any public perception of negativity (justified or otherwise) in the article. It is alluded to, but never discussed, in the section entitled, 'In the media. I also think it should be mentioned in the lead for the article.

I'm going to tag the article On Hold, and I'd love to have a look after the issue is addressed. Happy editing! Mmoyer 01:28, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I am starting that section now. I am not sure if it should be large or not, but I added what people have thought about furry conventions and what some have done against the cons and their attendees. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 01:52, 27 October 2007 (UTC)


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


 * Sounds good to me. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 03:52, 27 October 2007 (UTC)


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

One more very minor grammar point in the second para of the lead caught my attention as I re-read the article: "...magazine coverage which implied that the events..." is too clumsy. Please change to "...magazine coverage implied the events...". Thanks! Mmoyer 04:13, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 04:22, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I tweaked this further, because that didn't seem to flow work when "due to" was at the front. Now "due to television and magazine coverage which implied the events were sexually oriented". GreenReaper 05:09, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

The baseball players incident
Which con was it that was held at the hotel that had the homophobic baseball players also staying at it at the same time? I can't find any mention of it in the article. --RyanTee82 (talk) 04:11, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I think that would be Anthrocon. GreenReaper (talk) 02:59, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
 * If you are talking about the New York Mets, it was Anthrocon. Here are two stories about it: Walk On The Wild Side: Furries Return To Pittsburgh, Freak Mets Out and Thousands Of 'Furries' Flock To Pittsburgh For Anthrocon Convention. There is a cool "raw video" in the second one. Enjoy and add it to the article if you think it should be there. RP9 (talk) 19:01, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

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Proposed merge of List of furry conventions into Furry convention
This list has been cluttered with non-notable conventions where a majority of their coverage is local. It would serve a better purpose in the main article where it can be better controlled as to what's eligible for inclusion per WP:NLIST. Jalen Folf  (talk)  06:47, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose While I agree that the list is a mess, I think its in need of an overhaul removing non-notable cons, and once completed it would pass notability guidelines.  B a i l o 26  Talk to me 05:44, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Support As per nom. Additionally the list could be limited to those with articles already existing on wiki, but I propose that the dates and themes be ommitted for relevance, as these will be maintained on their respective articles.  Thepenguin9  (talk) 04:28, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

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

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

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

Trying to fix citations
Hi there. I was really just trying to fix the links that go to a redirect page, and most of them are citations. So, I've been looking at the other citations on the pages that use it, since most of them are old and need to be updated from dead links.

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Adding a con to the list
I'm trying to add my con to the list of active events, but it keeps being removed as promo content. How would I add it without the description sounding too promo? This is what I have for the description rn:

First held in 2020, this online Canadian convention has been held in VRChat twice a year. It usually runs early April and early October. So far the convention has only had 10 people attend, as of the last run in Oct. 6-8, 2023. The April time is set to become in person at Fort St. John, B.C. in a couple years, if the con becomes big enough. The October time would remain online.

I don't think that is too promo content, and it's already been rewritten, but was still removed. TEC Con Staff (talk) 20:51, 27 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I'm going to see about adding a page for the con at The Energetic Convention, so there's some more info about it. TEC Con Staff (talk) 20:52, 27 December 2023 (UTC)


 * The list of active events that appears in this article only includes some of the most notable furry conventions. There are many more that are too small and in many cases too inconsistently reported on to merit inclusion in this article. If for instance you were to look at the list of furry conventions on Wikifur, you'd see that there are more 100 furry conventions that take place annually. For a con to be listed in the Wikipedia article, it must be notable enough to stand out for one reason or another, most often due to its size though it may also be for other reasons such as being one of the longest-running conventions, or the largest in its part of the world. Coverage by reliable sources is a big plus.
 * In a nutshell, a relatively new online-only convention with as few as 10 attendees is almost certainly not going to meet the notability criteria that would merit inclusion in this article. But if you'd like to create an article over on Wikifur, it would probably be welcome there. Feel free to reply here if you have any further questions. mwalimu59 (talk) 05:43, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Would an article on Vancoufur meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines?
There has been several articles from Canadian news outlets covering the event, especially since the Syrian refuge incident and the bomb threat from last year. ~tayanaru (talk) 01:07, 14 January 2024 (UTC)


 * This was already discussed at Articles for deletion/VancouFur; an article covering this topic would need to address the "one event" concerns raised there. In other words, there would need to be at least one source on last year's scare. Jalen Folf   (talk)  02:11, 14 January 2024 (UTC)