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Contents 1 Current issues 2 Things todo 2.1 Project-related 2.2 International 2.3 Australia 2.4 New Zealand 2.5 United Kingdom 2.6 United States 2.6.1 Venturing 3 Continual things to do 4 Signing this page

[edit] Current issues

• work toward more Featured articles and Good Articles
• the portal tag can have the scouting image we use be displayed by typing "|Scoutsgreengoldnoscroll.png" after the 'g' in Scouting. See sample on George Thomas Coker see also section. Help in updating these as you come across them would be appreciated.

UPDATE: Note, we discovered the PNG version works better that gif (gif doesn't show the green border in IE nor FF), so please change the gif to png if you find such a case.

[edit] Things todo

[edit] Project-related

• There is a {{Infobox WorldScouting}}, which is rather nice, i reckon we should try to get it on all Scout Association pages (Currently only the UK and South African ones have it - That I've found anyway). I think {{Infobox Scouting}} should be a more generic one which can be used on all other scouting pages Jediwannabe 06:17, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
  • The {{Infobox WorldScouting}} has now many optional fields, and can thus be applied to all Scouting articles in need of an infobox: Organizations, Campsites, Jamborees, etc. The ToDo has now changed to get it on all those articles. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 00:17, 4 October 2006 (UTC).
• Anyway of showing Top priority stubs on the main project page? Horus Kol 14:10, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Not dynamically that I know of, then you'd have a huge list if people wanted more stuff. You can go here Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Scouting_articles_by_quality/2, which is a list of all article with our project tag (other than NAs), sorted by class then importance.Rlevse 14:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I added a link to this on the project navigation pane. Rlevse 14:25, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I guess a link will have to do - it was getting to be a hassle to get to before... thanks, anyway. Horus Kol 14:32, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] International

• non-aligned Scouting movements. A lead, parent article with sections or subarticles on non-aligned (non WOSM) organizations that are also non-insular (not administered by the WOSM organization of another country. While most of these are boy organizations, there are some girl organizations in this category: at least one is American and Germany has about 10.
• Polish rank articles are all separate. A (preferably) knowledgeable person should unify them and tag the images (which all seem to have PD-released tags)
• all WAGGGS-associations listed in List of World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts members
• World Deaf Scout Jamboree (see Jamboree (Scouting))
• Age Groups in Scouting and Guiding only has a handful of organisations so far - please feel free to add more Horus Kol 14:11, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
• Scout Motto can we make this a table like the WOSM members?
• Should there be an article on the Scout logo - the symolism of the fleur-de-lys badge? It might help with a small problem on Talk:The Singapore Scout Association. --Bduke 02:01, 17 December 2006 (UTC)...Sure, why not. Rlevse 03:16, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

I was not offering to write it - not my scene. Also it would need a source more independent than the WOSM article on the world badge. --Bduke 03:46, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, if Jergen is game, how about an expansion of Gallery of Scout and Guide national emblems into such an article, so there's no overlap? Chris 07:09, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Australia

• Information about the Cuboree needs to be added.
• More information needs to go into the Australian Scout Jamboree page.

[edit] New Zealand

• Get participants from NZ.
• Add details of structure (e.g. Areas), National Jamborees and much else to Scouting New Zealand.
• Create articles on Scout areas.
• Create Guides New Zealand.

[edit] United Kingdom

• James Milner Fraser - Founder of The Boys' Brigade in Singapore which should, incidently, probably be renamed to Boys' Brigade (Singapore) or The Boys' Briadge (Singapore) unless the current title is its offical title but I doubt it. -- (except note that BB is an older precursor to, but not equivalent to Scouting ... Ok, so what does that mean you want us to do with the article? We have other "Scout-like" organizations in the Scouting Category. --Naha
• John Sweet (Scouting), a sincere and gifted scouting leader and writer in Britain. Author of Scout Pioneering, and of cartoons that still illustrate many Scouting publications, especially outside of the United States.
• Add more articles for Scout Counties and improve those that exist. See template at bottom of the Scout Association. Northern Island, Scotland, Wales and the three non-UK islands are complete. England has 39 county articles started with 19 still to start. User:EnglishScout has recently added many.
• Air Scouts (UK) - there is a generic Air Scouts article
• Scoutlink (UK) - needs more details - when? where?

[edit] United States

• Air Scouts (Boy Scouts of America), there is a generic Air Scouts
• Boys' Life tiny stub, needs to be expanded. Added some more on the content, but still needs to be expanded further.
• Adult Leader Training (Boy Scouts of America) There needs to be a single page outlining the opportunities, goals, etc. of the Adult Leader Training program. Could also include historical info. NThurston
• categorize/structure Council articles by BSA's Regions, Western Region... et al? (we may need more talk on this, use the talk page).
  • restructure Council, District, Troop articles (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/RulesStandards and its talk page)
• Defunct BSA High Adventure bases: National High Adventure bases such as Maine, Land Between the Lakes, Region 7 Canoe Base
• Learning for Life, if it's not covered in an Exploring article (see Exploring (Learning for Life) too)
• Operation On-Target, short stub, needs expanding
• Scouting magazine tiny stub, needs expanded
• James L. Tarr BSA 1980s exec (from my handbook when I was a kid), Bronze Wolf
• Youth Leadership Training (Boy Scouts of America) Need an article to discuss the opportunities and goals of the new (and old) Jr. leader training programs. NThurston
• Peace Scouts of California, a pre-BSA Scouting association

[edit] Venturing

• Venturing recognitions (see rank article structure talk at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Scouting/RulesStandards
• Bronze Award, Gold Award, and Silver Award need to be expanded to include information about the Venturing versions of these award. NThurston

[edit] Continual things to do

• Check Category:Scouting articles needing attention for articles that have a high need of being worked on. There should a section on the article's talk page about what needs to be done. When you've completed the task(s), you can remove the attention tag from the Scouting project template; if you don't know how, ask Rlevse.
• check article titles and text for references to the Mormon church, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/RulesStandards
• anyone listed on the List of notable Eagle Scouts that meets the criteria for an article per List of notable Eagle Scouts's talk page that does not have an article needs an article, articles not meeting this criteria should be deleted
• anyone listed in the Silver Buffalo Award article that is in red needs an article
• On World Scout Committee members and Bronze Wolf recipients, for those with no article and not mentioned elsewhere, if there is a disambig page, I add their listing to it, in hopes that some budding genealogist will recognize it and pick it up. If they are both World Scout Committee and Bronze Wolf, I say that counts as sufficient notability for their own Wiki article, so I am seeding them with stubs later this afternoon.
• expand articles in Scouting stubs
• keep an eye out for Scout, Scouter, Scouting, etc to have the 'S' in uppercase in the titles and articles
• change patch, logo, rank, merit badge, etc images to use the {{scoutlogo}} tag
• keep an eye out for correct usage of BSA; see Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/RulesStandards
• keep an eye out for redirects that need updating
• link national Scouting articles onto national pages, i.e. Scouting in Canada to an appropriate place on the Canada page. I did this on Korea and it generated some local additions/corrections.
• defend against and fight off unwarranted AfDs, CfDs, and renames
• merge sub-council level stubs into their appropriate state or nation

[edit] Signing this page

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