Talk:West Lancashire Scout County (The Scout Association)

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[edit] Merge here of Waddecar Scout Camp

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
  • Support. I suggest an article on a County camp is pretty much at the same level as an article on a District; that is, it is not notable enough for its own article. The Counties are also rather on a small size (compared with say US or Australian States as the level below National), so they need more information. I support merging this article into the County article. --Bduke 01:27, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Support - the size of the campsite, its facilities and its notability do not lend to an independent article. There are already plenty of similar sites which can be cited as examples of how to incorporate a County or District campsite into the main County article - Scouting in Avon#Campsites for example. -- Horus Kol Talk 01:31, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
  • I disagree that it should be merged. If a section is done for Great Tower it'll be far too busy. PMBO 21:56, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
  • I'm going to redirect the article. If it can be improved we can expand it later. --evrik (talk) 13:53, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Accident at Waddecar

I think this accident needs to be mentioned, but it needs sources. Surely there must be press accounts of it. I have moved it from "See also" to under the camp section. --Bduke 23:42, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notability

I have consulted with another editor - outside of Scouting. Assuming good faith, I'm afraid that I cannot see that these new sites fit in with Wikipedia as they appear effectively nothing more than a list of branches of The Scout Association. For further information on this please see the section Wikipedia is not a soapbox on Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, notably the section on advertising. Even when open to Groups of all Associations these pages were of suspect standard, and closing them to independent Groups has not helped in any way.

I suggest returning them to their original format, a new format that allows all Scouting in a County to be reported, or, alternatively, deleted as inappropriate. -- DiverScout (talk) 19:10, 1 June 2008 (UTC)