User talk:Blackcat99


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-- Bduke   (Discussion)  21:44, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Scout Groups/Networks
You wrote on my talk page:-

I'm confused as why you don't list Scout Networks. These are a provision by and an integral part of each Scout County (ref POR). I can understand why you don't list Groups, but Networks are a completely different entity entirely.

Peter Davies ADC (General Duties) Bedford District Scout Council —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blackcat99 (talk • contribs) 22:10, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

I am replying here as you may not have noted my talk page convention that I normally reply there. First, note that you message was autosigned. You should sign messages on talk pages by typing ~ at the end.

Now to the substantive point. I realise that Networks are a County responsibility, but I do not see why that makes them different from Scout Groups or Explorer Units in a rather broad article on Scouting of all forms (not just the Scout Association) in a region. We had all of them in older County articles and they were just cluttering it up and were unmaintainable because people kept adding or removing them with no sources. Their removal and merging the County articles up into one region article was discussed in the Scouting WikiProject and was applied for other countries too. So that is why I left a summary of the number of Networks wihout listing them individually.

Please join the Scouting Project and read their rather many sub artciles on guidelines to keep Scouting articles within wikipedia policies and general guidelines. We are not here to promote Scouting but to write an encyclopedia. However I do believe that having a good encyclopedic coverage of Scouting and Guiding across the world is a great service to the Movement. Feel fre to reply here. I will notice it as you are now on my watch list. Regards, -- Bduke   (Discussion)  23:27, 17 February 2009 (UTC)