Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scouting/Todo

Merge, move, delete

When proposing a change such as merge or move, do add the tag, but please also start a section on the articles talk page. Explain why you think the change is needed, and allow for discussion. What may be obvious to you may not be immediately clear to others. If there are no dissents or no discussion for a few days, then make the changes. Thanks! --Gadget850 ( Ed) 03:27, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Is there somewhere we can make recommendations on articles for deletion before going through the formal process? --Gadget850 ( Ed) 01:10, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

This has already been put on the RulesStandards page. If you want to propose one of these without going through the formal process, use this "Todo" talk page.Rlevse 01:17, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Recommended articles for deletion

• Camp PMI This is an article on a subcamp at Goshen. Much of it is non encyclo, such as the summer camp schedule. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 01:32, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Counter-proposal. This is a sub camp of Goshen (National Capitol Area Council). Suggest start a Goshen article, take out poor PMI parts and put the rest of PMI into Goshen. Goshen has several sub camps. Rlevse 01:36, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Goshen was renamed as the start of the Scouting in DC article, several days ago. For states there was a single council that had an existing article, I made that the nucleus of the state article. Chris 02:13, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like a merge proposal: works for me. One of these days I gotta get out to Goshen and check it out. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 02:30, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Trail signs

I can't seem to find any material on Wikipedia about the boy scout trail signs. Apologies if this is not the right place to mention this. --Doradus —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.225.225.35 (talk) 11:59, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Moving this to the group page so it can be seen. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 14:39, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Australia

I do not believe either of the items:-

• Information about the Cuboree needs to be added
• Silver Kangaroo

under the Australia heading deserve an article. The Cuborees are, I believe, a State event and should be covered briefly in the State articles. The Silver Kangaroo is the top award for adults in Scouts Australia, but I see no real independent sources other than "Joe Bloggs was awarded it". It is also awarded to a very large number of people. The lists are by State but it is about 2 - 5 per State per year, so it may be close to 20 per year. Even if we combine with the other adult awards, it still would not meet notability guidelines. These items have been listed for a long time. Should we just remove them? --Bduke (Discussion) 22:01, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Agreed re cuboree. Perhaps more info could be added about it to the relevant state pages however? Vynwood (talk) 15:44, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

"To Do List" item on defunct BSA High Adventure Bases

An item on the "to do " list is: "Defunct BSA High Adventure bases: National High Adventure bases such as Maine, Land Between the Lakes, Region 7 Canoe Base."

And I wrote in: "I could do most of a Region 7 article (though the base has had 2 names) Or should it be one article for all defunct BSA HA bases?"

There was no response.....I probably wrote it in the wrong place. I have a lot of expertise/knowledge on the Region 7 base. My article would be a little heavy on OR vs. sources, (and I would put it into the main article space that way) but I don't mind taking the risk of dealing with that issue. But, to take it on, I would like some reading on notability from this group before I started, and thus support on notability in the event that I proceed and a notability issue arises. And a reading on advisability and notability of a Region 7 article specifically, vs. a "Defunct BSA High Adventure bases" which I could also start where the initial content would primarily be just on the one base.

What do y'all think? North8000 (talk) 18:17, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

As you see from the section right above, there is little discussion here. Being from Oz, I have no knowledge of these bases. However, I suggest you add material to some other Scouting article - State, Council, Region or whatever. Then if discussion starts on the talk page you can argue for forking it off into a separate article. --Bduke (Discussion) 21:08, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Where in Australia is OZ? We know how to get there from Kansas via a tornado, but that's about it. North8000 (talk) 01:25, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Agree: start it in one of those articles and see how it grows. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 23:15, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Fine except that I can't find a place for it. Current BSA high adventure bases each have their own article. The main BSA article is overly brief in proportion to it's huge scope (100 year old multimillion person organization) and doesn't even have a high adventure bases section. And the task of a Wikipedian grade summary of other current and past BSA high adventure bases is beyond my time limitations.

Plan A: The best idea I can come up with is a new "BSA High Adventure Bases" article with very brief summaries on the current ones with links to the Wikipedia articles, then a section on past ones, with real coverage of Region 7, and mentions of the other defunct ones. Presumably the summaries of the current ones and the other defunct ones would grow over time at which point the "BSA High Adventure Bases" would become a good article.

Plan B would be the same thing within the main BSA article. I think that an akward start in such a major article would be awkward.

Plan C would be putting it into the BSA history article, but that would be quite awkward because that article is mostly a timeline of the main BSA stuff.

North8000 (talk) 01:53, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

You need to check the navbox at the bottom of the article for links to other BSA related articles. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 15:37, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

I assume that you mean on the main BSA article. I looked there before I wrote the above. I was just offering to work on a listed "to to" project and am not up for pushing any idea. Maybe I'll just "sit back" on this for now. North8000 (talk) 11:19, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

All BSA articles should have the {{Scoutorg BSA}} navbox. You can also draft articles in your userspace, or I can create a collaboration area where we can all work on articles together. I think I just might do that anyway. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 13:25, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Sounds good North8000 (talk) 17:00, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm going to start a "back burner" project to develop a Region 7 Canoe Base article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:North8000/Region7. Could take weeks to get started and months to get it ready enough to put up. If you want set up a collaboration area for thisi outside of my userspace, please do let me know (via a message, not sure I'll be watching this page) ) and we'll move it there. North8000 (talk) 13:13, 9 February 2010 (UTC)