Talk:Greater Manchester West Scout County (The Scout Association)

Notable Groups
To the anonymous user who keeps adding 1st Stretford. Every District has a "first" Group, but we cannot include all of them as a notable group simply because of this - notability comes from being one of the first Groups ever registered (a list can be found at Scoutbase (pdf)) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Horus Kol (talk • contribs) 11:27, 9 January 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) 19:04, 1 June 2008 (UTC)