User talk:Mearns


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Scouting in Scotland
Hi, having just seen your edits to Scouting in Kincardine and Deeside, I thought I had better draw your attention to the merge notice at the top of the page, and add some furhter information. This article is most likely to be combined with all the other articles about Areas in Scotland to give a new article at Scouting in Scotland (overwriting the current redirect there). Discussion on this merge is at Talk:Scouting in Scotland. I am drafting a new article at User:Bduke/Sandbox. I say it is most likely to be merged in this way, as similar articles have already been done for Wales, Northern Ireland and the 9 government regions of England. Scotland is the last one. So there is consensus to do this. I'm afraid that all your edits to the list of Groups will be lost, as we are removing all such lists. They are simply against the wikipedia policies and guidelines as information is not generally verified from reliable sources. It is mostly original research which we do not allow. You knowing stuff about Scouting is fine, but it is not good enough to add stuff to wikipedia. We have to point to a written source. Your help on my sandbox article would be most appreciated, but please take a good look at the discussion on the earlier articles at Talk:Scouting in Wales and Talk:Scouting in England and that at many of the articles themselves to seek how it is being approached. I'll be happy to answer any questions. Again, welcome. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  22:12, 7 September 2008 (UTC)