Talk:Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons

Rewrite by Searocat on 2008-03-26
The rewrite of the article about Canadian Power & Sail Squadrons by Searocat has removed a lot of information about the organization, and in its place substituted a lot of what appears to be public-relations material.

For instance, CPS's main course (the basic Boating Course) has been watered down and shortened substantially. The pass mark for the basic Boating Course has been reduced from 80% to 75% so that more people can qualify for CPS membership. And the cost of the first year's membership has been bundled into the cost of the basic Boating Course so that everybody now becomes a member automatically upon completing the course. All of this information, for which references were cited, has been removed from the new version of the article.

If anyone agrees with the changes that have been made, it would be interesting to know why they think removing these facts improves the article. Otherwise, I'd argue that they should all be kept in. GeorgiaStraight (talk) 02:21, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Edits by Searocat on 2008-11-04
Searocat has restored most of the public-relations material contained in the March 2008 version of the article, and deleted much of the substantive information contained in the August 2008 version (which had also existed in earlier versions, and which Searocat had deleted in March 2008). Searocat's version of 4 November 2008 omits many key facts such as:


 * Through the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's, CPS's basic Boating Course and several of its other courses were based on textbooks by Charles Chapman and Garth Griffiths.
 * Textbooks were eliminated from most CPS courses in the 1980's, and the content of most courses, especially the basic Boating Course, was reduced.
 * CPS's revenues are derived from two main sources, the sale of course materials and the sale of memberships. To increase its revenues, CPS has reduced the pass mark for its basic Boating Course, so that more people can pass the exam, and has bundled one year's membership in with the basic Boating Course and increased the price of the course by the equivalent of one year's annual dues.
 * The Canadian government's Pleasure Craft Operator's Card (PCOC) certification programme is beset with exam supervision and testing compliance problems.

The article does not benefit from Searocat's proposed deletion of these facts.

On the other hand, a good deal of the material Searocat has added (beginning with "CPS offers Canada's premiere Boating Safety Course ..." in the first paragraph) is more appropriate to a PR brochure than to an encyclopaedia article. GeorgiaStraight (talk) 12:03, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of tag (re: advertising, non-encyclopaedic content) by Searocat on 2008-11-13
Searocat has attempted to delete the tag (re: advertising, non-encyclopaedic content) placed on his/her version of 4 November 2008. I have placed further comments on his/her user page. GeorgiaStraight (talk) 08:53, 14 November 2008 (UTC)