Talk:Scouting memorabilia collecting

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Scouting Wiki Project Scouting memorabilia collecting is part of the Scouting WikiProject, an effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Scouting and Guiding on the Wikipedia. This includes but is not limited to boy and girl organizations, WAGGGS and WOSM organizations as well as those not so affiliated, country and region-specific topics, and anything else related to Scouting. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
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[edit] Borrowing

Chris: I don't mind you borrowing portions of my Merit badge collecting (BSA) article as yours has a broader collecting scope, more international scope, and you credited me in the history summary. It's just Scouts helping Scouts. You helped me at first and this is just returning the favor. Thanks for being upfront. Yours In Scouting (YIS), Rlevse 00:34, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] USA Museum link

This link takes one to a huge list of US museums. Why not make it go directly to the US Scouts museums so people don't have to click around to find it. I couldn't find it. Rlevse 19:10, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

That is a great idea, I would encourage you to make the change, maybe even to list the museums themselves in the article! Chris 20:59, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

If I can find them. I had trouble drilling down to find anything, it's a maze. I thought maybe you knew wher they were. I found the BSA Scouting Museum link using google easily, so I've put that in. Rlevse 22:07, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Attention tag

The external links need formatted so a description shows, not the link itself. Rlevse 22:46, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

doneRlevse 17:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] REQUEST FOR OPINIONS - Isn't BSA Exploring part of scouting?

In the article about collecting scout memorabila, a section includes links to related subjects. Law Enforcement Exploring[1] is an existing related Wikipedia article. Kintetsubuffalo believes it is not related to the subject of collecting scout emblems, and has repeatedly removed it. Since Law Enforcement Exploring is a formal part of BSA, and hundreds of unique emblems are used by the BSA LE explorer program, I believe it to be properly related and should be included for reference. Please provide opinions so that I may be guided.Patchbook 06:03, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Not for collecting article. The Exploring article does not directly relate to Scout memborabilia. See also section listing should directly correlate to the topic. This is why things like Scouting museum, collecting, etc articles are in there. By the the standard you're trying to adopt, every single Scouting article (there are over 1200 on wiki, from all over the globe) should be listed here, making a See also section meaningless. Yes, Exploring is part of Scouting, but the real question here is what is the scope of the memorbilia article and what is the purpose of a See also section.Rlevse 11:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
The stub even doesn't mention emblems - so why should it be included in this category. Please insert content first before addin the category. --jergen 10:56, 18 January 2007 (UTC)(copied from Scouting project talk page).Rlevse 11:10, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Good grief ... there are a kazillion different kinds of explorer posts. Nobody would consider a police badge to be a kind of Scouting memorabilia. Categories are used for linking loosely related articles ... there is already Category:Collecting there ... there's no reason to list every kind of collecting in the See Also. --BigDT 12:32, 18 January 2007 (UTC)(copied from Scouting project talk page).Rlevse 12:59, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree in that the link to Law Enforcement Exploring does not belong in this article. As the others are probably aware, my opinion is very conservative regarding See Also. If it is worth adding to See Alos, then it really should be a link in the body of the article. I cannot see where Law Enforcement Exploring would apply in this article. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 14:13, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you all for your opinions. QUESTION: If an additional article were to be contributed which focuses on law enforcement explorer emblems, should it be under Scouting Memorabilia, or Law Enforcement Exploring, with a reference from Scouting Memorabilia? I have thousands of original pictures on this subject available.Patchbook 21:32, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

If it were written with a scope that applied to both, both categories would apply. But I don't think we have categories at that level. "LEL emblems" would fall under BSA cat and Collecting cats though. You may want to take a look at an FA I wrote, the first Scouting Project FA,

History of merit badges (Boy Scouts of America) for ideas on how to approach such an article. Rlevse 21:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I was considering the link and additional article from the perspective of a Wikipedia user looking for information and not knowing anything about scouting, LE Exploring, or emblem collecting. Are you folks suggesting that BSA and LE Exploring, and the emblems worn in those programs are not a related subject? Please offer more discussion so I may understand better because I thought the "be bold" Wikipedia concept here was focused at providing a cross section of information. Thanks Patchbook 23:09, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

BSA, LEL, and patches are related, but the articles thereon may or may not be. The current LEL article has nothing to do with patches and certainly not with collecting, so it does not belong in See also of the memorabilia article. Now, if you wrote an article on the history of LEL patches (akin to my History of mbs article), it would be related.Rlevse 02:10, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
  • I agree with Rlevse and others that the link to Law Enforcement Exploring does not belong. Exploring is not closely enough tied to the idea of scouting collectibles and it would be too much of a dilution of the article to list that link. Johntex\talk 01:26, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I am considering a rather large volume of various article contributions to Wikipedia in the near future and your inputs have been helpful. Patchbook 10:58, 18 February 2007 (UTC)