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Would Wikipedians entertain the idea of having the Councils-by-state sections recategorized to "Scouting in Arizona", "Scouting in Washington", and so on, rather than a list of every council and district? The reason I would like this considered is
1) no other country's Scouting articles are divided into such minute details (except for The Scout Association of Hong Kong, and really, is that much minutiae important or interesting to the reader?)
2) many councils that a reader may choose to look up, like the Fitchburg Area Council of Massachusetts or the Vigilante Area Council of Montana, went extinct 30+ years ago, yet may be of interest in a more state-based article
3) many states like Alaska share a communal Scout history, only fairly recently being broken into smaller councils, others like North Dakota had several merged into one, and some Scouting histories are better told encompassing an entire state. The fact that Scouts in California prior to the charter of the BSA were the youth arm of the California Highway Patrol, or the fact that Connecticut, while having only eight counties, has had 22 councils over the course of its history, would be well-included in a statewide article Chris 01:09, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Historical council information to be folded in — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kintetsubuffalo ( talk • contribs) 14:07, 15 September 2006
Earlier this year, there was a mass killing of articles about Boy Scout councils and Boy Scout camps. Many of the articles were of poor quality, but the real reason that the articles failed to be saved was lack of a coordinated defense on the part of the Scouting WikiProject. In response to that, there was a move by one user to merge as many Scouting related articles as possible into ‘state’ articles like Scouting in California rather than a push to expand the smaller articles that existed.
In term of California, these articles no longer exist.
I’m pointing this out to you, because WikiProject Pennsylvania has made a concerted effort to save our articles, which is why ours are most of the few that still exist. -- evrik ( talk) 16:31, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Many of the links within the various articles to the individual Scout Councils official web sites are poorly formatted, positioned in different locations, lacking adequate spacing around them, and it is not always clear what the link actually points to. what do you think about populating each council entry with a sub-head Official Site and then add a link to the "official council web site"?
-- btphelps ( talk) 15:55, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
I've added a map, however, I have a few problems
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Would Wikipedians entertain the idea of having the Councils-by-state sections recategorized to "Scouting in Arizona", "Scouting in Washington", and so on, rather than a list of every council and district? The reason I would like this considered is
1) no other country's Scouting articles are divided into such minute details (except for The Scout Association of Hong Kong, and really, is that much minutiae important or interesting to the reader?)
2) many councils that a reader may choose to look up, like the Fitchburg Area Council of Massachusetts or the Vigilante Area Council of Montana, went extinct 30+ years ago, yet may be of interest in a more state-based article
3) many states like Alaska share a communal Scout history, only fairly recently being broken into smaller councils, others like North Dakota had several merged into one, and some Scouting histories are better told encompassing an entire state. The fact that Scouts in California prior to the charter of the BSA were the youth arm of the California Highway Patrol, or the fact that Connecticut, while having only eight counties, has had 22 councils over the course of its history, would be well-included in a statewide article Chris 01:09, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Historical council information to be folded in — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kintetsubuffalo ( talk • contribs) 14:07, 15 September 2006
Earlier this year, there was a mass killing of articles about Boy Scout councils and Boy Scout camps. Many of the articles were of poor quality, but the real reason that the articles failed to be saved was lack of a coordinated defense on the part of the Scouting WikiProject. In response to that, there was a move by one user to merge as many Scouting related articles as possible into ‘state’ articles like Scouting in California rather than a push to expand the smaller articles that existed.
In term of California, these articles no longer exist.
I’m pointing this out to you, because WikiProject Pennsylvania has made a concerted effort to save our articles, which is why ours are most of the few that still exist. -- evrik ( talk) 16:31, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Many of the links within the various articles to the individual Scout Councils official web sites are poorly formatted, positioned in different locations, lacking adequate spacing around them, and it is not always clear what the link actually points to. what do you think about populating each council entry with a sub-head Official Site and then add a link to the "official council web site"?
-- btphelps ( talk) 15:55, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
I've added a map, however, I have a few problems