Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Troop 26, Tulsa, OK

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The result of the debate was DELETE, OK? — JIP | Talk 10:19, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Troop 26, Tulsa, OK

An individual scout troup - looks like a bunch of great guys, but nn. --Doc (?) 22:38, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

• Delete all troops. User:Zoe|^(talk) 00:03, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: Wikipedia probably isn't the place for articles on individual Boy Scout Troops. I'm sure it's a great scout troop, but it's not really notable. ;-) — Cory Maylett 00:09, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. There are over 43,000 Boy Scout troops in the USA alone. [1] They should not be considered individually encyclopedic. --Metropolitan90 00:38, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, although the back of my brain lives in fear that Scout troops will become the new elementary schools in about a month. Lord Bob 03:27, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
• Comment My understanding of the above comments is that individual scout troops aren't notable, but the only guideline that seems to apply is Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Two questions: 1) surely some troops, such as Troop 1, are notable because of their tremendous historical influence, so how do you decide which other troops should also have the distinction? 2) at what level does a scout organization become worthy of inclusion: district? council? region? 13:59, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. Troop numbers, I believe, are assigned by Councils, so there are likely to be several non-notable "Troop 1"s. I was in the Birmingham Area Council's Troop 1 and I am not aware of anything notable about that organization except perhaps our stranglehold on the canoe-battle competitions at Camp Sequoyah. In my opinion a Troop could be notable, but that would have to be established in the article. More likely, a good article about a Council that might include some information about particular Troops would be encyclopedic. Dystopos 16:36, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment. Note that most states have multiple councils; there are probably other Troop 26's in other parts of Oklahoma. At what level does a scout organization become worthy of inclusion? If it were up to me, the national level: the Boy Scouts of America are notable but their regions, councils, and districts do not need articles of their own. --Metropolitan90 02:11, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

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