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[edit] Silver Fish
Interesting article. Could you clarify...is this a UK award, worldwide, WAGGGS award, or just what is the scope of the award and put it in the article. Tks. Rlevse 02:37, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you. I'm afraid the information I've given represents all that I reliably know about the award at the moment. The award is international in character as the recipients I've listed work or worked in the movement in variety of countries, but I don't know who is currently the awarding body. I'll add an appeal for this information to the article's talk page.Kingbird 14:40, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] DYK
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On 28 September 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Silver Fish, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page. |
Congrats on the DYK. I have one on the DYK today too--Harry Brinkley Bass, who's a MILHIST and SCOUTING project effort, which I wrote and nom'd. Two from one project can't happen too often. Thanks for helping with the project!Rlevse 01:16, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
- Be sure to look here Wikipedia:WikiProject_Scouting#Did_you_know.3F and in project announcements! Rlevse 01:21, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] How Girls Can Help to Build Up the Empire
What an excellent first version of an article. Very well done. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 00:01, 4 October 2006 (UTC).
[edit] Scouting mb
- For being off to a flying start with Scouting articles. Rlevse 02:32, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Images
An image gallery would solve your problem. Please see my reply at Talk:Girlguiding UK at let me know if you need help. Johntex\talk 22:58, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
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- Thanks for helping out. Now I know the correct style and tags I shouldn't have any trouble making up a gallery section. Kingbird 03:12, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Scouting articles
Hi. I need a GG/GS expert and hope you can help. We've long wanted to get the Boy Scout and GG/GS articles structured the same. I've started on this. See the Project talk page. Can you help get Girl Guide and Girl Scout more in line with Boy Scout? Also, do you know the best place to move the country-specific info I've put on the Girl Guide and Girl Scout talk page? Thanks. Rlevse 20:20, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- I've made a start by moving the UK specific material from the talk page, as you can see. It's going to take a while to get the information into appropriate sections and fill in some of the more glaring gaps, particularly as I just said I'd put up some articles about Girlguiding UK's regions, but I'm on the case, even if it's slow! Kingbird 17:33, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- Many thanks. Rlevse 17:38, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Two suggestions
Hi. I've come up with two suggestions in the rename discussion. I'd like to know what you think of them. See that thread. Rlevse 10:20, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you for dropping by to give me this message personally. I'll have a look into the things you're proposing, because at the moment I've no idea what a subproject or a taskforce involve, and then put my thoughts into the discussion. Kingbird 16:15, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- A subproject is simply a project that falls under the parent project, like if you had a trains project and Brit trains subproject. The subproject could have its own templates and everything. A taskforce is a group of people on a project who share a common interest in a certain area; like on the MILHIST project they have a WWI taskforce, WWII taskforce, etc. They have special captions on the project tag too. This is a short description of them. Hope it helps. Darthgriz98 may be correct in that there are not enough females in the project to support a subproject--the maintenance on a project is fairly high--for us, I do the vast majority of it. I think that if you are interested in one of these two options, the taskforce would be a better way to go. The taskforce would keep the bonds of "every scout/guide/rover are all part of the same movement" stronger too, I feel. Just my opinion.Rlevse 17:02, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- See the Signpost entry on the inviting participation subthread. Rlevse 22:48, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you
I appreciate that, and I also want to thank you for your edits and contributions. I have so wanted to see the feminine side of the project flourish, and if you check my edits about six months ago, I was begging anyone who even mentioned that they had been involved to please help add info, for instance the section in each US state article, to little success. Thank you, and you really need not apologize. I am a scholar of the rebirth of the movement in postSoviet countries, and have observed that the girls are more robust and sincere about it than their boy counterparts, even in mixed organizations. In Slovakia, for instance, they used to have to make every badge they earned as part of their program. The girls had these beautiful complete uniforms, proud of the badges they sewed themselves, and the guys were empty. The young ladies were living into the vision, and if my own nation's program has forgotten what that vision is, it is not reflected in the programs of the rest of the world. I know not to judge all by what happens here, and I have seen true Guiding and Scouting in action better than I could have done at that age. Out in the real world "Girl Scout" is not just a modifier before "cookies". I wish I could provide more info on each of the smaller organizations, and I hope I in turn did not upset that I stuck the stub information into the boy articles to have a chance to grow before they split off. You have a great day, sister! Your brother in B-P, Chris 18:27, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Taskforce
You seemed interested in the taskforce. Do you want me to set up the pages and tags for it? You and Darthgriz98 are by far the most active women in the project. There are a couple of others that appear from time to time. Rlevse 16:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
- FYI, User:Darthgriz98 says she'd love to have a GG/GS taskforce. Rlevse 23:35, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
- Yes. I am interested in a GG/GS taskforce if there are others with me. As there are others, then I think we should go ahead. As I have no experience in setting up a lot of the things that might be needed, then I would be grateful for your work in setting up the taskforce.
- I'm sorry it's taken so long for me to get to this message. My ISP is having a major problem with its optical fibre link to the outside world. If you don't hear from me again for a few days, it's not that I'm not interested, I just can't get on the internet. Kingbird 18:10, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- I'll let Griz know and do the work for you. Thanks for your interest. Rlevse 20:13, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- Think of a name. If you name it WAGGGS, it won't cover non-WAGGGS orgs. Perhaps "Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting" task force. Rlevse 20:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- May I join you in this taskforce? --jergen 09:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Glad to have you on board. Well done for the huge amount of work you've put in to get more of the women's organisations separate articles. Kingbird 16:32, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
"Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting" taskforce works for me. It's straightforward and obvious, and that's good. Anyone else want to comment? Kingbird 16:42, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- Your task force name is a red link in the new project navigation pane as I am waiting to know for sure what you want to name the task force. Let me know when you want me to ahead and create the page with whatever name. Rlevse 19:14, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Kingbird--would you like to be the TF coordinator? Rlevse 23:34, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- I would be terrified to be the TF coordinator, but I'll do it! It took me a day or two to decide. You'll have to give me some pointers as to the jobs I should make sure are done. Regarding the TF name, I suggest waiting until the weekend has elapsed and then going ahead with "Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting" if no-one has an alternative. Kingbird 16:42, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
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- As no one has objected to the name or Kingbird being the TF coordinator, I've creating this. See the the TF talk page and main page (on the project navigation pane. Rlevse 15:13, 10 December 2006 (UTC)...go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting task force. One of the first things members should do is define your goals and scope. I and I'm sure others will help with templates, ideas, whatever you need, just let us know.Rlevse 15:23, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you very much for getting us up and running. Kingbird 17:25, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Scouting Barnstar
- for significant contributions to Guiding articles and also for making the Scouting WikiProject members keenly aware of the need to greatly improve the presence and awareness of Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting issues within the Project. Rlevse 23:25, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ranger Guide
Can you create a quick stub to get rid of the redlink Ranger Guide in the Scouting article? I don't know anything about them, except this: [1]. Rlevse 00:14, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- No problem. I've created something quick for the time being - it's at Ranger (Girl Guide). I'll try to get back and improve it at some point. Kingbird 16:24, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- Cool, thanks. PS, you may want to copy your Barnstar to your main user page. It was well-deserved! Rlevse 16:26, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Checking in
Just checking on you. How are you? Rlevse 12:04, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
- Overrun with Real Life! It's been mad. I'm sorry I didn't manage to leave a message that I couldn't make any contributions for a few weeks. I probably won't be active for about another week, except what I do today, then I'll be back to usual. It was a real pleasure to log on for the first time in ages and find you're back with us. Happy New Year! Kingbird 19:12, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
- Glad you're back. I was beginning to worry. You can open my talk page, look near the top, and there's some code I uncomment and edit when I'm on break. You can copy and modify if you like.Rlevse 19:19, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hi! When you're done with the GG/GS article, let me know, and I'll do what I can to get it to GA. Thanks for all your help.Rlevse 10:51, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] GG/GS task force
Hey I made a userbox for the GG/GS taskforce to help us network with other members, if you want to check it out it's on the task force talk page. Let me know what you think, when you get back from your break of course. Take it easy, Darthgriz98 04:34, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Darthgriz! A userbox is a helpful addition to the task force. I'll put it on my page right away. I also saw your message about the Studio 2B page. I recently bought some Studio 2B resources so I may be able to help out in the future. Kingbird 20:54, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 28th Glasgow (Giffnock) Scout Group
Hiya, I noticed that you have done some minor editing on the group's article... just to let you know that ths article is in the process of being merged with Scouting in Greater Glasgow and will be replaced with a simple redirect to the Area's article in a few days unless there are any major objections listed in the discussion... Horus Kol 00:08, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Our Chalet
CHeck the ref you added, something is wrong with it. Let me know if you need help.Rlevse 20:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- You're quick! It's all fixed now. The longer tag went into a reference further up the page that I was sorting when you dropped me the message. No worries. Kingbird 21:20, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Two questions--I know Olave became Chief Guide in 1930 and lived to about 1977. At what point did she cease being World Chief Guide? Also, if I may ask, I know you said you are British but now live elsewhere. In what country do you live? Just curious. Rlevse 01:24, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- Olave B-P has never stopped being World Chief Guide despite being, as you said, dead. There's never been another. Just like B-P being World Chief Scout. As for myself, I live in Puerto Rico, where kingbirds sit on the telephone wires outside my home, dashing to and fro catching insects. Kingbird 17:36, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- PR--been there a few times with the Navy and took the chance to scuba dive several times while there.Rlevse 21:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
