Talk:The Scout Association in Northern Ireland

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This may be politically contentious. This article is placed in the Category:Scouting in Ireland, but Northern Ireland is part of the UK and this association is part of The Scout Association. To be NPOV I think it should go in both Category:Scouting in Ireland and Category:Scouting in the UK, so I will do that. --Bduke 22:39, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh yeah, of course... i just didn't get around to adding it to the Category:Scouting in the UK... well i didn't even know that there was a Category! (Narrow minded on my behalf!) But yeah, its in the UK, and on the Island of Ireland, so both! :o) Ablaze 14:16, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sections

Do we need this? Are not the sections in NI the same as the rest of the UK or am I missing something? --Bduke 20:48, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merges of county articles

It has been proposed that Scouting in Antrim, Scouting in Armagh, Scouting in Belfast, Scouting in Londonderry, Scouting in Down, Scouting in Tyrone and Scouting in Fermanagh be merged here. There are notability concerns. This was discussed at Talk:The Scout Association#Scout Association in Northern Ireland. These articles also discuss the presence of Scouting Ireland units in these NI counties. If we follow the proposed guidelines at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scouting#Structural changes, we should merge that material into a new article on Scouting Ireland in Northern Ireland. Please discuss the merge here. I support the merge and would note that if we do not merge them, then there is a clear obligation to address the notabiity and referencing concerns of the separate articles. --Bduke (talk) 02:11, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

The proposed guidelines I mention above do not now have as much support as they did. I am thinking that the material on the Scout Association and on Scouting Ireland in NI are so mixed up that we should perhaps merge everything into Scouting in Northern Ireland (now a redirect to Scouting in the United Kingdom that says nothing about Scouting Ireland in NI). Can we have some comment on all this? --Bduke (talk) 08:44, 7 June 2008 (UTC)