User talk:Silesia~enwiki

Scouts Canada
Let's look at your additions:

Does not belong in the article: "This paragraph has been repeatedly deleted"

This needs a reliable source, someone who has published this already: "but the most notable fact associated with the decline in Scouts Canada membership is the effect that co-education had on the overall decline in youth membership - very slightly reversing the trend after it became optional, but apparently accelerating the decline when it became mandatory. The statistics in Scouts Canada's annual reports tell the tale."

You need to include the sources for these: "Despite co-education having nearly doubled Scouts Canada's pool of potential members, by 2007 total adult and youth membership stood at just 37.5% of what it had been in 1990, 35.4% if the 5,372 5-10 year olds in ScoutsAbout and 195 teens in Extreme Adventure are not counted. Between 1990 and mandatory co-eduction in 1998 youth membership fell 20.7% and adult volunteers declined by 18.8%. From mandatory co-education to 2007 membership in the traditional youth programs (Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Venturers and Rovers) dropped by a staggering 55.5% while the ranks of adult volunteers decreased by 56.4%."

This needs a reliable source, someone who has published this already: "Again, this is despite the new ability to recruit all of Canada's youth, not just boys. In 2007 female youth membership was at 18%, and this may in part reflect a higher percentage of girls in the ScoutsAbout program than in the traditional programs. Some have observed that Canadian girls weren't overly interested in becoming Boy Scouts, but that their presence dramatically decreased the number of Canadian boys who wanted to become Boy Scouts. In any event, the situation continues to deteriorate."

You need to include the sources for these: "The 2008 Annual Report shows total membership at less than 93% of 2007 membership, a rate of decline that could see the organization effectively defunct within fifteen years or less."

Please don't add this content again without resolving these issues. I suggest you edit this at User:Silesia/sandbox and ask for review. --—— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk  -  12:49, 13 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The same necessities apply to your addition to Boy Scouts of America membership controversies. --jergen (talk) 13:26, 13 November 2008 (UTC)


 * To clarify a bit: It does not matter if it is true if you don't have reliable sources. If no one has reliably published this then it can't be added; blogs and forums are not reliable sources. Please read the original research policy in the welcome above.


 * You state that the introduction of the coed program has resulted in the membership decline; this seems to ignore other factors such as the reorganization of Scouts Canada in the 1990s. --—— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk  -  16:04, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

September 2009
Please do not add content without citing verifiable and reliable sources. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. -MBK004 21:53, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

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