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Scouting

Order of World Scouts

I moved the link you added to Scouting in Jamaica, and added the Girl Scouts of Jamaica. --—— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk - 23:19, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Ed got here just as I was about to. ;) Would you consider writing the article Girl Scouts of Jamaica? Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 00:57, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Before starting a new article on GSJ please check Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Girl Scouts of Jamaica was speedily deleted twice, reasons were notability and advertising.

In my opinion, GSJ should grow to some more members (some hundreds) before aiming for an article in Wikipedia. --jergen (talk) 09:07, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Chris, I would be happy to write an article about the Girl Scouts of Jamaica, yet again.--Girlscoutsjm (talk) 09:55, 27 October 2008 (UTC) Jergen, are you in Jamaica? Do you know the significance of the Girl Scouts of Jamaica, or in fact any of the scout/guide groups in Jamaica?--Girlscoutsjm (talk) 09:55, 27 October 2008 (UTC) I do find this whole Wikipedia set up very confusing, but I have joined the Scouting project and will make our contributions to it.--Girlscoutsjm (talk) 09:55, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I had not realized the article had been deleted. If you wish to pursue this, I suggest you create a draft in your user space. Click on User:Girlscoutsjm/Girl Scouts of Jamaica to start editing. We can review it as you work through it. --—— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk - 10:55, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I do not know anything about Scouting in Jamaica. But this is not the point. Before starting an article you should check if Girl Scouts of Jamaica matches any of the criteria on Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). I cannot see how a newly founded organization with a very small membership (judging from its website) should do so. I also propose to read Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest.

I'm not judging your dedication to Scouting - I'm sure it's deep and honest. But Wikipedia is not a Scouting database nor for promoting a new association. It's an encylopedia. --jergen (talk) 11:06, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

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Simple English please. I have no idea what this means.--Girlscoutsjm (talk) 11:08, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Excuse the bots (the above was sent by what is like a robot). The point is that no article is using Image:GSJ-roundfleurpinsm.gif. You are using Image:GSJ-roundfleurpin.png. Since the image was not under a free license, it can not just be used anywhere. Since it is not used it will be deleted. I've been on wikipedia for three years now and I still find imagees confusing. --Bduke (Discussion) 21:09, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Not (quite) all WOSM!

I read your comments with a real sense of deja-vu. I'm not WOSM, I'm with WFIS and have become increasingly frustrated by a couple of editors ... as you may have noticed! Apologies for having it fall out all over your GSJ talk page, but I had just had an almost identical issue with the same editor on another non-WOSM article. Most editors on here are a pretty good bunch, really, so I'm sorry that your first experience of this place has been so stressful!

If you get any events in the press, and the press puts them on the internet, link to them straight away. Sadly, although WOSM pages seem to be permitted to sit on Wikipedia without any any external references, everything else to do with Scouting has to justify each and every word.

Hope that things are going well for GSJ. Yours in Scouting, Richard (DiverScout) DiverScout (talk) 13:38, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

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