Talk:Hampshire Scout County (The Scout Association)

Merge of H007 here
It has been proposed that H007 be merged here. The reason given by the proposer was "no notability separate from Centenary celebrations, of which there must have been over a hundred worldwide". An alternative is to merge to Scouting 2007 Centenary - see Talk:H007, where it is also suggested that the name be changed to "Hampshire 2007" if the article is not merged. Please add your comments below. --Bduke 23:00, 5 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I support the merge to here as I think Scouting 2007 Centenary is likely to get rather long if events all over the world are added. In fact I believe that article should be removed with the content merged into various local articles. --Bduke 23:00, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I think the bit above is over the top, so I have struck it out. The article should remain. The English camps should have a brief section in Scouting 2007 Centenary much like the section on Scotland, that does not mention individual camps. The Hampshire camp should be merged here, and other individual UK camps should be mentioned in the County/Area articles and not have separate articles. --Bduke 21:53, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

User:Crazyboy899, who created the article, has done the merge so the discussion is closed. See his talk page where I had a long discussion with him. --Bduke 22:13, 8 August 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)