Talk:Scout province (Scouting Ireland)

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Scouting Ireland Province articles
Please see discussion at Talk:Scouting Ireland, where I thought it might attract more eyes. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  09:15, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Merge of all 6 province articles here
The articles on the six Scouting Ireland Provinces lack references and encyclopedic content. They are just a list of Scout Groups.Wikipedia is not a directory certainly applies here. The main problem with these lists is that they are not verifiable and they are unmaintainable. Elsewhere these lists have been removed. All the UK County/Area articles had such lists, but these have been merged into region articles and the lists of troops have all been removed. The Singapore Scout Association had a very large list of Groups but that was removed. Lists of Groups have never featured for most other countries. I know of no other country now where we have such lists. These lists are unmaintainable because readers see there own Group and that of some nearby Groups. They see errors and add, edit or remove material to make it correct, but it is original research. It probably is correct, but it is not referenced. We can not distinguish it from vandalism. I am proposing that that all six articles be made into redirects to Scouting Ireland Provinces, where Counties in each Province an be listed. I asked for comment at Talk:Scouting Ireland, suggesting that other material on Scouting in each Province could be added, but this has not happened. I was thinking of major events, campsites, media notice, history, etc. This could be added to the Scouting Ireland Provinces article and if that then gets too large the separate Province articles could be forked off. For now however, they should be merged with the Group lists removed.

The proposal therefore is to merge Dublin Scout Province, Northern Scout Province, North Eastern Scout Province, Western Scout Province, Southern Scout Province and South Eastern Scout Province to Scouting Ireland Provinces. The template Scouting Ireland Provinces and the category Category:Scout Provinces in Ireland would then no longer needed and can be deleted. Please give your comments below:


 * Support as above. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  08:24, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * support Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 15:18, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

I have completed the merge. While the proposal has not received a lot of attention, that appears to be a reflection of the general lack of interest in such articles. The merge in entirely compatible with the merges that have occurred for articles on Scouting in other countries and the general removal of lists of Groups and references to individual Commissioners and leaders.

Merge of Slieve Bloom Scout County

 * Merge. Regional substructure of the South Eastern Scout Province. Very little content. --jergen (talk) 21:44, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Support merge and remove list of troops. We have already merged the Province articles so it would be illogical to not merge any County, District or Group articles. They are not notable enough and encourage cruft. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  23:20, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Support merge Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 03:43, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose Merge I will do more work on the page as time progresses. It is only a very new page but I will keep improving on it. It's nice for the county to have independence from province. Bonzostar (talk) 19:01, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Support merge per Notability (organizations and companies). This article should be expanded well before considering any forks. Units should not be listed except through Open Directory Project links. --—— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk  -  19:35, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. I have added some "citation needed" tags to the article, but in fact I should have added more. Whole bits appear to be original research. Material needs to be supported by sources. To Bonzostar: We are not in the business of making it "nice for the county to have independence from province". That is the job of the County web site. We are writing an encyclopedia. We have to have a neutral point of view. We have to verify everything with reliable sources. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  22:18, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Reply I completely agree Bduke but all the same, I still feel the article does deserve to be left on it's own. The work is ongoing and I will do my best to provide citations but it is difficult to find evidence on this particular topic. Bonzostar. (from a public computer) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.33.38.105 (talk) 14:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I have done the merge. There is consensus here. There is no more claim to notability for this county over any other county. It is not reasonable to have County articles when there are no Province articles. If the information on each province in Scouting Ireland Provinces gets too large, then the individual Province articles can be recreated. If they get too large then we could consider individual County articles, but I do not think sources will support that. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  04:36, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Provincial Commissioners
I suggest that the names of Provincial Commissioners be not added to this page. First, they are not really encyclopedic and they can be obtained presumably from the SI web pages. Second, and perhaps more importantly, they could attract vandalism in the form of abuse, criticism and defamation directed as these people, thus giving rise to a living people problem. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  22:52, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

External links modified
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