Talk:Scottish Gliding Association

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Scottish Gliding Union

It is unclear how the Scottish Gliding Association and the Scottish Gliding Union are connected. I have posted the information below to a deletion discussion for this article.

Keep - but it may need either merging with or better distinguishing from the Scottish Gliding Union. I've found and added a lot of references from the 1930s onwards to the founding of the Scottish Gliding Association. I'm sure it's notable. However - although initially it was called the Scottish Gliding Association, somewhere along the line, probably in the late 1930s, the name seems to have been changed to the Scottish Gliding Union. Pretty sure these are the same two organisations to begin with as the later accounts of the founding of the Union match the contemporary accounts of the founding of the Association. They also seem to share the same sites, at least some of the time. One or both of them is also referred to occasionally as the Scottish Gliding Club or the National Club, just to make things more confusing. However, we now have an article on each and they have separate websites - Scottish Gliding Centre, yet another name for the Scottish Gliding Union, and Scottish Gliding Association. Unless anyone in on this discussion can unpick what the difference is, I would suggest getting in touch with the two groups and asking if they can clarify their earlier relationship to each other. There is a book, The Scottish Gliding Union, A History: 1934-2008, which ought to help. I do not understand why the current version of the article refers to the SGA being formed in 1986, when newspaper coverage suggests it was already a fairly mature organisation. Possibly it was relaunched or separated off from the SGU at this time. Anyway - certainly notable from the coverage I've found and added, and I'm sure there is more out there in histories of gliding or biographies of some of the Scottish pioneers of gliding. Tacyarg (talk) 00:15, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]