Talk:The Duke of Edinburgh's Award

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[edit] DEAS

Isn't this the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme? DEAS? Its present in India too. I was a participant for a short time. User:Nichalp/sg July 5, 2005 15:12 (UTC)

Well, it calls itself the "Duke of Edinburgh’s Award" but yes, people often call it the "Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme". Add a redirect if you think it would help. -- ALoan (Talk) 5 July 2005 16:42 (UTC)
I've added the necessary redirects. User:Nichalp/sg July 6, 2005 06:08 (UTC)

[edit] Still a stub?

Is this article still a Great-Britain and Award stub, like it says at the bottom of the article? I agree it's not a very extensive article, but compared to other stubs, it's quite a bit bigger. So, I would remove the stub signs. What do you guys think? Goingin 14:22, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

I agree- without violating NPOV and including personal experiences this article actually contains all relevent information, and is certainly long enough to remove stub status. I have today(!) completed my silver DofE and connot think of anything to add. For those interested my skill was Bridge (card game) my physical recreation was climbing and my service was CCF. My practice expedition was in the Cevennes in the South of France and the real thing was in the Lake district Oli 13:00, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
Okay, I removed the stub warnings --Goingin 09:42, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Scouting?

Why is this under Wikiproject Scouting? It doesn't really have anything related to scouting. Daniel (‽) 18:12, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree, and I'm the project director. I'm removing the tag.Rlevse 18:13, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
The Award shares alot in common with the main award sceme in scouting, many of the objectives are the same. Sometimes people also choose to undertake the community section of their awards by helping out with a scout group. It is also becoming common for the award to be done through schools. Would a section on this be appreciated if i wrote something? GoHike 14:09, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
 This award is required in both Scouts and Guides New Zealand to get the top award.  The Queen Scout or Queen Guide.  
 It is relevent to the Wikiproject Scouting 203.98.31.34 02:33, 30 July 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Subcategory?

I'd just like to ask for some advise, I have written an article for the Cardiff University DofE Society and would like to link it to this article. I feel possibly the best way of doing this would be to make The Duke of Edinburgh's Award a subcatagory and then placing my artical within this. Would that be an aceptable way of doing this? GoHike 14:12, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

This would be a merge, if I understand what you are saying, as Fabrictramp (talk · contribs) proposed recently. I support the merge because the article Cardiff University DofE Award Society does not assert Notability or provide references. :: maelgwn - talk 06:09, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
I've been bold and carried out the merge. alex.muller (talk) 16:37, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
IMO, the section shouldn't exist at all, Cardiff's DoE branch is in no way more notable than any other. I recommend the section be removed completely. Grunners (talk) 20:22, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
I actually agree with you – I've come across plenty of these kinds of groups, and I'd support you if you were to remove it. If there's no apparent dissent here (and judging by how infrequently the article is edited, there wouldn't be) you should go ahead and make the edit. — alex.muller (talk • edits) 21:07, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Done Grunners (talk) 00:48, 23 January 2008 (UTC)