Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scouting/Userboxes/Philmont

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Scouting Wiki Project Wikipedia WikiProject Scouting/Userboxes/Philmont 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.
Template This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.


[edit] Proposed Category: Wikipedians who survived Philmont

I have edited the templates {{user Arrowman}}, {{User:UBX/vigil}}, and {{user vigil-n}} to include Order of the Arrow tagged userpages in Category:Wikipedians in the Boy Scouts of America (you must be one in order to be the other), and it instantly grew from 38 members to 142 ... my logic was that OA membership implies membership in the Boy Scouts of America, just as being a Vigil Brother implies being an Arrowman.

I noticed that a lot of editors who use the {{User Philmont}} template do not use any other Scouting user templates or Scouting userboxes, and there is no category to list the user ... I thought that Category:Wikipedians who survived Philmont should be created by {{User Philmont}}, and it should also be a subcategory of Category:Wikipedians in the Boy Scouts of America, since having been to Philmont implies BSA membership ... so I modified the template, but I can't complete the last step.

See, I'm just an anonymous WikiGnome, so Some One Else will have to login and edit the Category:Wikipedians who survived Philmont article in order to create it ... I suggest that you use Category:Eagle Scout Wikipedians as an example of how to do it (copy&paste from edit window to edit window), and remind folks that using it will automatically add them to Category:Wikipedians in the Boy Scouts of America in spite of what their other userboxes may declare, like {{User NotEagle-Life}}, {{User former BSA}}, or {{User Scouts Canada}}.

If anyone thinks that this is a Bad Idea, then just revert {{User Philmont}} and the redlinks will go away. —141.156.240.102 (talk|contribs) 01:54, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, apparently User:Rlevse didn't like it ... didn't bother to say why, but then, they don't have to ... they're an Administrator. —141.156.240.102 (talk|contribs) 00:03, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

I didn't say I didn't like it, I said it didn't work. Your cats weren't set up/created. Rlevse 01:03, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it did work because the discussion page is still there (see Category talk:Wikipedians who survived Philmont) ... there were 50-60 users listed, if you had just scrolled down the Category page, you would have seen them. All that was needed was a logged-in user to do an initial edit of the page with an example of how to use the template. (For my own reasons, I prefer to remain anon.)
Also, the total for Category:Wikipedians in the Boy Scouts of America is now lower, so that part worked as well ... I'll leave it to you to make a correction on that page as to the behavior of the Philmont template now that user is no longer linked. —141.156.240.102 (talk|contribs) 03:35, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
So you admit you did a partial job. The red link is what caught my eye in the first place. Get an account if you want to be a regular contributor so that you're not hiding behind anonymity. And no I won't do this for you. Rlevse 09:53, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Please do not bite the newcomers. I started this thread by stating that I couldn't do the last step ... anonymous users cannot create a Category page. (The reasons for my anonymity are personal and not a topic for conversation ... I will let my edit history speak for itself.) The following is what I could not add ...

This category is for '''[[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedians]] who survived a [[Backpacking (wilderness)|trek]] through [[Philmont Scout Ranch]]'''. To add yourself to this category, put the '''{{tl|User Philmont}}''' template to your userpage ... that will create this userbox. (Or you can add "Philmont" to your {{tl|babel}} box.)

{{user Philmont}}

[[Category:Wikipedians in Scouting]]

I would appreciate it if some registered user would copy&paste those three lines onto the page Category:Wikipedians who survived Philmont and revert {{User Philmont}} to a version that links user to the category, which should immediately populate it. —141.156.240.102 (talk|contribs) 03:17, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
This seemed like a good suggestion, so I did it. It says there are 54 members in the category, so I guess it works as advertised. Dennette 13:14, 14 November 2006 (UTC)