Talk:Buckinghamshire Scout County (The Scout Association)

Merge from Longridge Scout Boating Centre
Proposal to merge the information in the Longridge Scout Boating Centre article as a section of the Scouting in Buckinghamshire article and redirect the original article (Support, Oppose, Comment):


 * Support - until such time as more information can be developed for the centre, I think this should be in the main article only... Horus Kol 00:40, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * support for the reasons Horus Kol cites. Chris 04:02, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Support merge for reasons given by Horus Kol, but it should be recreated if more information, particularly about the non-scout use, becomes available. --Bduke 11:17, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose articles are more likely to develop if they exist in stub form. --evrik (talk) 04:41, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment that may be true, but there isn't a lot more that can be said about this campsite - it isn't one of the historical ones, like Youlbury or Gillwell Park... Horus Kol Talk 11:44, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

It's been a week since the last input on this matter - what is the next step? Horus Kol Talk 14:39, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Oppose
Longridge has a long Scouting history that covers more than just Buckinghamshire. In fact if I remember correctly it was actually owened by a consotia of Countys (Bucks, Berks and Oxon?).

Also due to the location of the site it attracts local users from more than just Buckinghamshire.

I am sure over time the article will grow and reflect the history of this campsite for all Scouters - not just those in Bucks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 91.109.167.176 (talk) 13:23, 17 March 2007 (UTC).

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 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) 18:56, 1 June 2008 (UTC)