Talk:Girl Guide and Girl Scout

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Contents 1 Girl Scouts 2 Country-specific info 2.1 Girl Guides in UK 2.2 Girl Guides of Canada 2.3 English vs American spellings 3 Confusion 4 Somone please diambiguate the links to Girl Guides 5 GA? 6 Troops

[edit] Girl Scouts

The article states that Girl Scout redirects here. This implies that girls Scout is just alternative name. In the UK, at least, this is not true: a girl Scout is a female member of a Scout group, separate from the Girl Guides movement. Bazza 09:15, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Hopefully is my edit more clear? A Girl Scout can also be a female Boy Scout. Sounds funny, but can you live with it? --Egel _Reaction? 11:21, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

It would have been better directed at Scouting because, at least in the UK, we don't have the term "Boy Scout", and that article makes itself very clear at the start that it is specifically an article about the boy. There is no equivalent Girl Scout article which makes it difficult, acknowledged in "Boy Scouts" discussion page. This highlights a problem with the various Scout and Guide pages — the assumption is that everywhere works the same: obviously not. I've linked to Scouting (as is suggested in that discussion page) — feel free to change again and discuss more. Bazza 13:45, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

The article Boy Scout had had lots of "vandalism" from people who thought that article is about the Boy Scouts of America. The first line is there to tell: "this is an an organisation-neutral article about the young person not about a organisation". And the article is about the age-group 11 to 14/17, so not about Beavers, Cubs, Explorers, Ventures, Rovers etc. The only title we could find that somewhat excluses the other ages-groups and the WAGGGS Girl Scouts was Boy Scout.

But when you read the article Boy Scout and read "boys" as "boys and girls" and "Boy Scout" as "Scout" does it fit the UK situation? I think it fits situation in the Netherlands.

I have changed the first line of Boy Scout. Is this better?

But please make a small Girl Scout article is you want.

--Egel _Reaction? 15:24, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Country-specific info

Such info goes in association-specific articles, not here (per project agreement), if you are knowledgeable in an area, please move this info...

[edit] Girl Guides in UK

The Guides are split up into age groups.

• Rainbows 5 to 7 year olds. Rainbows work from the four areas of the Rainbow Jigsaw - Look, Learn, Love and Laugh.
• Brownies 7 to 10 year olds. Brownies work from the Brownie Adventure which is divided into three areas, You, Community and World. Brownies can also work towards interest badges covering a variety of subjects.
• Guides 10 to 14 year olds. Guides work from the 5 Zones, Healthy Lifestyles, Global Awareness, Skills and Relationships, Celebrating diversity, Discovery. Guides can choose to work on Challenge Badges, Go For Its, Interest badges and the Baden-Powell Challenge which is the highest award that a Guide can gain.

Senior Section 14-26.

• Young Leaders Work with Rainbows, Brownies or Guides. Can work towards Making It Count or the Adult Leadership scheme as well as other Senior Section opportunities.
• Guiders (18+) Work with Rainbows, Brownies or Guides in a leadership role and are working on/have completed the Adult Leadership Scheme.
• Rangers Meet together to plan and carry out activities, they may work towards any opportunities avaliable to Senior Section members.
• Member of a Look Wider group A Senior Section member who has chosen to focus on the Look Wider scheme.
• Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Participant a Senior Section member who has chosen to focus on the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.
• Lone Senior Section member A Senior Section member who is working on part of the Senior Section programme, but is not part of a unit.
• In4mer Anyone who has undergone the 4ward, 4 self, 4 others peer education training
• Guide member of SSAGO For Senior Section members who are studying at university or college.
• Female member of LINK
• Appointment Holder
• Trefoil Guild Member

Senior Section Awards and Qualifications

• Making it Count (leadership)
• Chief Guide’s Challenge
• Commonwealth Award
• Queen’s Guide Award
• Residential permits
• Adult Leadership Qualification
• Duke of Edinburgh’s Award

This information has now been moved to the Girlguiding UK page. There's a lot of work still to do to get it into shape on that page and all help is welcome. Kingbird 16:38, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Girl Guides of Canada

Canada is one of the many countries that take part in Girl Guides. In French, it is called Guides du Canada. In Canada, the levels of Guiding are:

Sparks: Sparks are the first level of Guiding for girls ages 5-6. The correct uniform is: pink shorts/leggings/sweatpants, and a pink t-shirt/sweatshirt. A pink pinny for badges is also part of the uniform. Every level of Guiding has a special promise recited at meetings. The Spark's promise is: I promise to share and be a friend. The Sparks now have their own program book and badges, like the Brownies, Guides and Pathfinders program.

Brownies: Brownies are the second level for girls ages 7-8. They wear orange shirts/t-shirts, blue pants/shorts/skirts, and white ties with orange leaves. A navy blue badge sash is worn across the right shoulder. The Brownie promise is: I promise to be true to myself, my god/faith, and Canada. I will help other people and keep the Brownie law.

Guides: Guides are the third level for girls ages 9-11. They wear pale blue shirts/t-shirts, navy pants/shorts, and white ties with blue leaves. The navy blue badge sash is also worn. The promise is similar to the brownie promise. It is: I promise to do my best, to be true to myself, my god/faith, and Canada. I will help others and respect the guiding law.

Pathfinders: Considered to be the last juvenile level, Pathfinders are the next level, for girls 12-14. They wear green and white t-shirts/white long sleeved shirts, navy pants/shorts, and white ties with green leaves, and a navy badge sash is worn. The Pathfinder promise is the same as the Guides' promise. Before, the Pathfinder program was mostly bookwork and discussions, but now, there is a new program that has been made of the girls' suggestions.

Senior Branches: Here, the program branches out into three differant programs, Rangers, Cadets, and Junior Leaders. Each branch has its own colour, red for Rangers, yellow for Cadets and navy for Junior Leaders. Senior Branches often wear the same uniform as the adult leaders, although a red Senior Branches t-shirt is now available. The Senior Branches are treated as junior adults because they are considered to be future Guide leaders. Their promise is the same as the Guides and Pathfinders.

Further details and history of the Girl Guides can be found in the article on Scouting.

moved by RlevseRlevse 20:07, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] English vs American spellings

What is the norm for this artical, English or American, because program is spelt programme, and I am not familar with English spellings to an extent that I can edit with it. Darthgriz⁹⁸ 01:09, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Since we're going with Guide, I'd use Brit spelling. In Brit, program is programme. Rlevse 01:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Confusion

This article, and its relationship with Scouting, Boy Scout are unclear. I get the impression that there is a thought by some authors that the terminology used world-wide is the same. It is not. This article starts by saying that Girl Guide and Girl Scout are synonymous. That may be true in some parts of the world, but not all. In the UK, a Girl Guide is a member of the Girls Guides movement, whereas a girl Scout (with a small G) is a female member of the Scouting movement. (Likewise, there are no Boy Scouts, only boy Scouts). I appreciate that this is different in other parts of the world. Bazza 13:10, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

But when you read the article Boy Scout and read "boys" as "boys and girls" and "Boy Scout" as "Scout" does it fit the UK situation? I think it fits the situation in the Netherlands. If so, we can start clearing up the confusion with the articles. If not what are the differences?

Are these definitions right or or at least well enough for an outsider:

• a girl in a girls-only troup is a Girl Guide or Girl Scout
• a girl in a co-educational troup is a (girl) Scout

--Egel _Reaction? 14:39, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, Boy Scout with the gender-specific parts reworded seem OK. The information on leader structure and committees is not accurate for the UK at least but could be reworded to make them more general, or split into country/region sections. Your definitions above are not strictly true - you could get an all-girl Scout group, but I don't know if there are any yet. (The same also applies, by the way, to Cubs in the UK.) I do not know if there are any boys who are part of Girl Guides, although the opportunity is open regardless of gender. Bazza 15:10, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

The problem with the information on leader structure and committees is that the BSA has no group-level but many country/region levels and the rest(?) of the world has group-, district-, county-, nation-level. And the article started (somewhat) BSA-baised.

I know the "definitions" are not strictly true, but there are many national organisations were boys and girls only work together at national level and have a different (Boy) Scout and (Girl) Guide programme.

Scouting Nederland (WAGGGS and WOSM) has co-ed, boys-only and girls-only units and Groups. Some of the girls-only units are more in the Guide tradition and some more in the Scout tradition.

Yes, there are boys in Girl Guides: in Slovenia, Spain and Greece, the national Guide association has opted to admit both boys and girls, and the national Scout association has remained a separate boys-only movement.

--Egel _Reaction? 17:08, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

We've been through all this before (see Project talk page during Sep). This is the article structure we came up with. I do agree some wording could be improved, though. Due to all the variations of membership, etc around the world, it would be exteremely different if not impossible to cover them all in a neat, non excessively wordy fashion. This GG/GS article is meant to be a female counterpart to the Boy Scout article. In some countries, the male/female programs have become mixed, but certainly not all. Making only a Boy Scout article is not the answer either. GG/GS as used at the top of the article specifically mention they are synonomous WITHIN the article. If you can find a way to succinctly improve the article, by all means do so. Rlevse 21:02, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Somone please diambiguate the links to Girl Guides

Could one of the experts here please go through and disambiguate the links to Girl Guides. Thanks a million! (Or 245 -- which is the number of links the the page ;-). Ewlyahoocom 06:33, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but this will take awhile. I did a few just now.Rlevse 10:51, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA?

What all is needed for GA? I saw the stuff on the taskforce page and can't find where it says what we have left to do with it. Darthgriz⁹⁸ 20:06, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

See if you can expand the Activities and Organization sections more. A couple pics of girls having fun would be good too. Use Boy Scout as a model as that one made GA easily. It needs more refs too. Let me know if you have questions, I'm still trying to get Our Chalet ready for GA submission.Rlevse 21:03, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

I think the point raised at [1] needs to be addressed first... Horus Kol Talk 01:09, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't, this article is much closer to GA that the proposed Guiding article. This article is about the individual girl, not the movement, which the Guiding would be about, which I'm still not convinced we should do.Rlevse 01:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

The point I'm trying to make is that this article contains information which is generic to Guiding and should not be in here - this article is partway between a Guiding article and an article on the Girl Guide - that is what needs to be addressed. Horus Kol Talk 01:37, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't think so. The article sections are very similar to Boy Scout, though not as detailed, and no one has said that about the Boy Scout article.Rlevse 01:47, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't have a problem with the section headings - but if you actually compare the content within sections like Foundation, you'll see that the Girl Guide and Girl Scout article has a lot more information which is better placed in a Guiding article. This level of detail isn't in the Boy Scout article, and rightly so, because there is the Scouting article to deal with this. Horus Kol Talk 11:16, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Finding pics of the girls is always tough since most are not free images, I'll try to find something though and I'll begin work on that section tomorrow. Darthgriz⁹⁸ 01:22, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I have posted my thoughts on the creation of a Guiding article at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scouting. Kingbird 20:40, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I made various edits, such as cleanup and copyediting to the page. Is there anything I can do? Sjones23 20:09, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Any constructive improvements are appreciated. You could join the Scouting Project and GG/GS taskforce too. Rlevse 20:15, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Troops

I'm concerned about the use of the word "troop" in the second paragraph of the article. My understanding is that there in no one word that is used worldwide for those local groups of Guides and Girl Scouts. There are several words, different ones more common in different places. So I'd prefer it if troop isn't the one we used at the start of the article. Local group is the phrase I would use, but I want to know what other people think. Kingbird 19:42, 15 March 2007 (UTC)