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A conlang is a constructed language.
The purpose of this page is to form a consensus. Since the foundation of Wikipedia, a number of articles (almost 200) about constructed languages have been written, but not everyone agrees on how notable a conlang must be in order to be kept. On one camp, there are people who think all conlang articles should be deleted (although a generous few of them would let us keep an article on Esperanto to merge all conlang articles to); on the other extreme, there are those who think how 'notable' an artlang is should not be criteria for exclusion, as opposed to its 'quality'. We need to set a bar somewhere, or else conlang articles (and conlang VfDs) are going to continue on without rhyme or reason.
The discussion originally ran from July 28 until August 28, 2005, with a vote on proposed criteria beginning August 28. At that point more people got involved, and some objected to the whole procedure. Renewed discussion has been taking place at Wikipedia talk:Conlangs/Straw poll and Wikipedia:Conlangs/Alternative proposal since about August 30.
Note: This page is getting too large! If you can, please move comments or sections to subpages (e.g., Wikipedia:Conlangs/Only Esperanto, if you think only Esperanto should be mentioned on Wikipedia), with a sentence to describe the subpage's content.