Talk:Gloucestershire Scout County (The Scout Association)

Merge from Bristol Gang Show
Propose to merge the Bristol Gang Show article as a section of the Scouting in Gloucestershire article. Horus Kol 18:27, 21 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Support --Gadget850 ( Ed) 19:24, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Support --Bduke 20:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Not sUPPORT --23 February 2007

I just realised that Bristol is in the Avon Scout County and so have edited the merge tags accordingly... Please discuss the merger in Talk:Scouting in Avon Horus Kol 09:12, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Whilst Bristol Gang Show is run by Avon County Scout Council, the Bristol Gang Show is an event in its own right, and should retain its own presence on Wikipedia. ~ Philip Bird, Avon Scouts
 * If that logic were used for all events, groups and other bits of information, we would see a large number of short articles that are better off being included as sections in other articles... Believe it or not, I am trying to save the information in this article, because as it stands, it will not survive an AfD... Horus Kol 18:19, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

England box
I left a note for the WP England folks about their project box. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 19:24, 21 February 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) 19:01, 1 June 2008 (UTC)