Talk:Union for Reform Judaism

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[edit] Camps

Question: Is there really value in having sections on each camp individually? I appreciate that they have differences between them, but this is going to be a super-long article if we do this - and I doubt the information is terribly useful for most readers. -Joshuapaquin 22:07, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

A bit of background about the current state of this page: there had been a separate wiki page about each camp and the URJ page at that time just linked to them. But then a decision was made that there shouldn't be a page for each camp, so the contents of each camp's page was copied into the URJ page. So now we have, I agree, a page that has "too much" detailed info about some camps, and that info isn't necessarily specific to a given camp. I think the original proposal was to put all the camp info into a new URJ Camps page, which would solve the length and "overly focused on the camps" concerns about the URJ page. OTOH, maybe we really don't need so much info at all (I don't see anything especially useful/notable in the camps' own sections)...perhaps go back to the simple bullet list of the camps, but now with ext links to each one's webpage? DMacks 04:26, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Right, the bullet list thing sounds good to me. Or even, to be honest, just a link to the URJ Camp directory might suffice. We can include a couple of sentences about the camping system and how it's related to the URJ organization as a whole, but the current page just seems so darn unencyclopedic. -Joshuapaquin 23:25, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
I just went on a merge/redirect binge, so except for Kutz (someone's actively editing it(?)) and OSRuby (out of time tonite) I think all the material from those pages is here and pared down to anything even remotely encyclopediac. Gotta drag the Kutz editor on board before going forward here. I tried to add some general URJ Camps info to the beginning of the camps section so we could go with just the extlink, but I think a simple list-of-camps is encyclopediac and useful to readers, and also mildly appeasing to campers/alums. DMacks 05:24, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Trouble is, "encyclopedic" is in the eye of the beholder. It is often more interesting to go into depth than to simply give a broad overview of the topic. — Rickyrab | Talk 01:09, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

I was a NFTY Leadership Academy camper (and JFTY/ NFTY-GER winter conclavee) in the 1990s and what I wrote was based on my memories. I invite other contributors to correct me wherever I'm wrong, update info, etc. - if you know about Kutz Camp, come on in an' write something! — Rickyrab | Talk 03:33, 5 October 2006 (UTC) (moved from URJ Kutz Camp page) — Rickyrab | Talk 01:10, 7 October 2006 (UTC)