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Requested move at Talk:Carl XVI Gustaf#Requested move 13 January 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Carl XVI Gustaf#Requested move 13 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 20:57, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Scouting in Nicaragua shut down

see https://apnews.com/article/nicaragua-crackdown-scouts-daniel-ortega-ceb7679bad9155e5f69d6cf34e16d606 --jergen (talk) 11:40, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

I see updates have been made at Asociación de Scouts de Nicaragua. GoingBatty (talk) 00:46, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
I'm not sure if past tense is correct since the association (or part of its management) is seemingly still active, eg on Facebook. Unfortunately my Spanish is not good enough to understand every detail of [1] and [2] but to me this reads like the Nicaraguan Scouts are actively trying to maintain the association. --jergen (talk) 18:01, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/COPE (Boy Scouts of America)

FYI on article within the project. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/COPE (Boy Scouts of America) North8000 (talk) 15:53, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

This is a bad article in every aspect. It fails to show the programmes notability, uses mainly primary sources and describes only a minor and very BSA-specific aspect of ropes courses in an educational setting. From a world-wide viewpoint I can't even understand why this was written. --jergen (talk) 09:32, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
My own opinion is that it's common for there to be sub-articles for enclyclopedic information where they would make the top level article too large. And they often contain "boring" enclyclopedic information which secondary sources write little on. Having done thousands of NPP reviews (while also learning from experienced-others during that process) common practice is to not apply an unusually strict application of GNG to these. Whether you base that on common practice or application of the WP:IAR policy to develop enclyclopedic coverage / include enclyclopedic material. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 14:20, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

I have a unique item hand made and engraved with the scouts coat of arms or the fleur-de-lis. I would like to trace its origin and value

Double sided axe/hatchet, solid brass, engraved with lily emblem on each side of both blades. Snitzel111 (talk) 09:29, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

"Template:WPSCOUTING" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Template:WPSCOUTING has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 May 8 § Template:WPSCOUTING until a consensus is reached. Nickps (talk) 21:46, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Template:Scoutstat BSA

{{Scoutstat BSA}}

@North8000, Jkudlick, GoingBatty, and Eagleinflight: Can we get this template updated? --evrik (talk) 23:47, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

@Evrik: Here are links to the BSA's 2023 Annual Report and the OA's 2023 Impact Report. They don't have all the stats that are in the template, but you could use these to get started. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 13:56, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
Not sure of the relationship between {{Scoutstat BSA/sandbox}} and {{Scoutstat_BSA/doc}}. Also, I'd like to update as much as possible all at once. --evrik (talk) 15:42, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Our membership rolls

I had an opportunity this evening to look at every talk page that had the newsletter delivered today (there was a missing colon in the template and I went back to add them all back in). I know that this page, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Scouting/Members, is out of date. I hadn't realized how badly that Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/Members/delivery is out of date as well. There are many pages like this one, User talk:Forestfufighting, where the only postings on the talk page are from our newsletter. There are other pages that it is clear that the wikipedian is not longer active. I think we should trim the delivery list. Thoughts? --evrik (talk) 05:46, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Are they doing any harm? I do not think so. However, if we delete one that someone wants to keep, we will be in deep trouble. Just leave them. It is how Wikipedia works. Bduke (talk) 06:28, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
I wouldn't worry about it. And also an inactive editor might still like to consider themselves to be a member. If we wanted to have the list to become more informative regarding this, we could add a "reconfirmed date" column which the editor could update whenever they want. North8000 (talk) 13:07, 23 May 2024 (UTC)


Article watch

These articles were summarily redirected:

There has also been edits to:

This got deleted:

...and then there's this:

You may want to add these to your watchlist. --evrik (talk) 02:29, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

I am going to be AFK until next week. Just an FYI, I just posted this: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:Graywalls reported by User:Evrik (Result:_) --evrik (talk) 04:04, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

  • Calling out someone who hasn't edited in eight years is a stretch. --evrik (talk) 23:48, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
    @Evrik:, It's not a call out on any individual in specific, but the contents added by them still present in article and possible COI they may have had at the time the edit was made. "Attacking the reputation of individual users" is not the case here and I ask that you retract such accusation. Adding COI tag helps with improving the article, because it would bring the article to the attention of those who monitor articles tagged with them and they come from the broader Wikipedia editor community as opposed to being confined to interest specific WikiProject. Graywalls (talk) 23:53, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

the president of the Washington Scouts, L.A. Snead?

I am uploading some 1920s photos about scouting from Polish archives. This one is relevant to the US, but I am not sure if the person is identified correctly (see heading), seems notable but I cannot google anything with his name as given in the pl archives. For the pic, see File:Ekspedycja Jerzego Jelińskiego dookoła świata - pobyt w Waszyngtonie.jpg

@Evrik Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:44, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

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