User talk:TobyWalton

Speedy deletion of 1st southwold scouts
A tag has been placed on 1st southwold scouts requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a club, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guidelines for people and for organizations.

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Re the deletion mentioned above, there is a pretty clear consensus that individual Scout Groups are not notable. Maybe the first in England would be, but that is not known. In writing a new article, you have to assert the notability of the subject pretty clearly and preferably also add references to support that. I have taken the first sentence of the deleted article and added it to Suffolk Scout County (The Scout Association) as it is better worded than what was there. It does need a reference to demonstrate that it was the first. Note that all Scout County articles are being merged into articles on the 9 government regions of England. Please look at Talk:Scouting in England. Suffolk is yet to be done. In that merge, lists of Groups will be removed as we reached a consensus that they are not notable and they are not maintainable as properly verified. However mention of old Groups will still remain. --Bduke (talk) 22:39, 30 August 2008 (UTC)