Talk:Scout councils (Boy Scouts of America)

DYK nomination
--evrik (talk) 21:43, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Proposal
Would Wikipedians entertain the idea of having the Councils-by-state sections recategorized to "Scouting in Arizona", "Scouting in Washington", and so on, rather than a list of every council and district? The reason I would like this considered is

1) no other country's Scouting articles are divided into such minute details (except for The Scout Association of Hong Kong, and really, is that much minutiae important or interesting to the reader?)

2) many councils that a reader may choose to look up, like the Fitchburg Area Council of Massachusetts or the Vigilante Area Council of Montana, went extinct 30+ years ago, yet may be of interest in a more state-based article

3) many states like Alaska share a communal Scout history, only fairly recently being broken into smaller councils, others like North Dakota had several merged into one, and some Scouting histories are better told encompassing an entire state. The fact that Scouts in California prior to the charter of the BSA were the youth arm of the California Highway Patrol, or the fact that Connecticut, while having only eight counties, has had 22 councils over the course of its history, would be well-included in a statewide article

Chris 00:39, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Merged per nom. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 15:34, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Possible sources
--evrik (talk) 17:36, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Numbers
I don't know of a good way to get council membership without going to each web site and doing a search. I am sure that Michigan Crossroads Council is one of the bigger councils now, but I can't find anything on their site.

The BSA no longer reports Learning for Life in-school numbers, only Exploring, so the total membership table will never be updated as such.

I have been tracking mergers since 2009 at Template talk:Scoutorg BSA.

--— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 17:58, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll keep my ears open. --evrik (talk) 18:00, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Scout councils and inclusion
Cheers, 71.178.129.27 (talk) 19:53, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * How do we use this? --evrik (talk) 21:50, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * It belongs in Boy Scouts of America membership controversies, and much of it is already included. --— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 12:25, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Current councils

 * How do we use this? --evrik (talk) 21:51, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * See User:Gadget850/List of local councils of the Boy Scouts of America. --— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 12:13, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm moving this information over to the talk page for merging for a possible List of local councils of the Boy Scouts of America page. --evrik (talk) 21:58, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Todo
--— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 13:12, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The USSSP page on National organization is way out of date
 * Add Michigan Crossroads Council unique organization
 * Split Direct Service to separate section: not a council, but often treated as such
 * Did what I could. --evrik (talk) 18:37, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

What tool do you use for copyvio? I'd like to use that as a future resource. --evrik (talk) 16:39, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * History section needs a total rewrite and references. Checked for copyvio with no results. --— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 18:07, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Region and Area Maps
http://www.scouting.org/Home/OutdoorProgram/Properties/Region%20and%20Area%20Maps.aspx

--  Gadget850talk 19:52, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Out of date size lists
Two of the top ten councils by size have merged. However both councils saw well over 90% of their troops dissolved at the end of 2019, so the lists are just plain rubbish now.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:56, 30 June 2020 (UTC)