Talk:Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

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Contents 1 Change of Article Infobox 2 Military Career POV 3 Political views 4 Last requirements before making it an FA candidate: Finetuning

[edit] Change of Article Infobox

Recommend replacing the current biography infobox in the B-P article with a military infobox. It seems more appropriate and a more usefull tool in helping organize and providing better context to the B-P article. Any thoughts or objections? --Ctatkinson 18:31, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941

• OK with me. Rlevse 19:45, 11 November 2006 (UTC), Scouting project lead coordinator
• Good idea. I dislike the meagre biography infobox for a long time, but couldn't find a good angle at introducing the WorldScouting infobox either. This one is much better. I copy-edited a few things, and expect to do more in the future. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 00:35, 12 November 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Military Career POV

User:Lima Golf added the POV tag to the Military Career section, but has not yet defined the issues. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 14:40, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

If he doesn't define the issues, which I can't deduce any either, the tag can be removed after a day or so. Rlevse 14:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

rm'd. Rlevse 19:29, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Political views

The Dutch lemma on this bloke mentions he was a great admirer of Hitler and Mussolini. Shouldn't that be mentioned here too? (if it is true of course) --Maarten1963 02:37, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Last requirements before making it an FA candidate: Finetuning

Hi all, I have taken care of all technical issues with this article, as suggested by peerreviewer script, and various WP guidelines. Now we need to take care of the last things that we ourselves think necessary before we can seriously propose this article for FA. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 08:49, 19 March 2007 (UTC).

• (1) I think the 'prolific writer' rather weak: it is merely a long list. Perhaps each subsection needs an introductory paragraph (prose).

Shouldn't there be a wikilink for Scouting for Boys in this section? Maybe even an image of the cover? I found this one on the B-P article in Spanish: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagen:Portadaescultismoparamuchachos.JPG Ctatkinson 23:55, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

SfB is linked in the lead and shouldn't be linked again.Rlevse 02:11, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, CT, nice ideas. Added both ideas. And to keep Randy happy, I deleted several other wikilink so SfB elsewhere in the text: there should indeed only one or two in the whole article. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 19:50, 3 April 2007 (UTC).

• (2) In the lead text is information that isn't in the article itself. As the lead is only the summary, that info needs to be included in one of the article sections themselves.
• (3) What links here: many redirects link here. That should be corrected, so that all wikilinks link to this article directly.

Feel free to add.

Excellent work here Wim. I'll try to help. As founder, it'd be great to have this as FA.Rlevse 10:14, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I checked several FAs on writers. Many have a "List of works" or "Bibliography" section, such as Tagore. What do you think? I worked on layout some.Rlevse 01:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

• Issue of redirection: There are close to 500 articles linking to this. Most link directly, and some link via the Robert Baden-Powell redirect. As this is a correct designation of B-P, I accepted this, but cleared out all other incorrect ones, e.g., Lord Robert Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Lord Baden-Powell, and similar. I think thi solves item 3 above. I'm not happy about 1 and 2, though, and I'll keep on working on those. Anyone else having an opinion on the article quality? Wim van Dorst (Talk) 11:17, 2 April 2007 (UTC).

• The infobox explains that B-P held a command post in the Second Matabele War, earned a campaign medal for his work, and in the author section it states that B-P wrote a book in 1897 about his experiences. Yet, B-P's service in this war is not even mentioned in the article itself. I'll take a shot a correcting this ommission.Ctatkinson 23:29, 2 April 2007 (UTC)