Talk:Kent Scout County (The Scout Association)

Downe Scout Activity Centre merge

 * support --Gadget850 ( Ed) 12:44, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * oppose - there is more information in this article than can comfortably be accomodated in the Scouting in Kent article. Horus Kol Talk 00:09, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose --evrik (talk) 19:25, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose - As one of the four Scout Activity Centres this should have its own article. Jt spratt 22:32, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Camps are an important part of local scouting history and carry a lot of notability. I see no reason to merge this article, but it could use expansion. Justinm1978 01:32, 4 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I have just thought, although this may be in the county of Kent I beleive that it is in the scout county of Greater London South West. Jt spratt 22:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * heh - yeah, this is the confusing thing where Scout Counties don't match political boundaries... in either event, the Downe article should be left as a seperate article. -- Horus Kol Talk 00:14, 13 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment looks like the consensus here is to keep. --evrik (talk) 22:23, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I have removed the merge tags. The debate has been on for two months and is now closed. I agree with Jt spratt's reasoning. The four centres are national assets. --Bduke 00:17, 4 June 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) 19:05, 1 June 2008 (UTC)