Talk:Suffolk Scout County (The Scout Association)

Merge 1st Bury St Edmunds (Mayors Own)
The claim to be the oldest surviving troop is not maintained by The Scout Association in their own publication. There is also no other information in the Group's article. I propose that the Group's article be edited as a redirect to the Scouting in Suffolk article. Horus Kol 01:05, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Support --Gadget850 ( Ed) 21:16, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Following no further input for a week on this matter, I have redirect the 1st Bury St Edmunds (Mayors Own) article to Scouting in Suffolk. Horus Kol 11:09, 28 February 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) 19:08, 1 June 2008 (UTC)