Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scouting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting is part of the Scouting WikiProject, an effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Scouting and Guiding on the Wikipedia. This includes but is not limited to boy and girl organizations, WAGGGS and WOSM organizations as well as those not so affiliated, country and region-specific topics, and anything else related to Scouting. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.ScoutingWikipedia:WikiProject ScoutingTemplate:WikiProject ScoutingScouting

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This basic article structure (there have been minor tweaks) was agreed upon by the Scouting WikiProject members in Sep 2006.
Article	Content, remarks
Scouting	Describes the movement of Scouting: history (founding, growth), activities one does in Scouting, organization, should cover both male & mixed sections (Scouts and Cubs) and female only (Girl Guides and Brownies), younger/older sections, international
Scout Movement	Redirect to Scouting
Scout (Scout Movement)	About the members, boys or girls aged 11-17 years, activities they do in Scouting, the Scout section, Troop/Patrol, Scout Law, Motto, Uniform. Not about history, not about the organization or movement.
Scout	Remains disambiguation page
Girl Guide and Girl Scout	About the members of Girl Guiding (Girl Scouting in the USA and some other countries)
Girl Guide, Girl Scout	Redirect to GG&GS (term used in a handful of countries with guiding organizations, including the United States)
Cub Scout, Brownie (Girl Guides)	About the groups for those in age ranges immediately below those in the flagship scouting age groups.
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell	About the person Baden-Powell, and his personal history. Not about the Scout movement other than his input/influence. Lots of redirects here, btw.
Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, etc	General summary pages that have see also links to other Scouting pages. Use to lead users to more in depth articles. No longer disambiguation pages due to all the confusion of different naming conventions. All other plurals redirect to the singular per Wikipedia standard, not to Scouting or a separate organization oriented article
WOSM, WAGGGS	Articles about the current international organization. Not about the Scouting movement, history pertaining to the organization only.

The newest Lord Baden-Powell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baden-Powell,_5th_Baron_of_Gilwell

Featured Article review

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Good article reassessment for Béla H. Bánáthy

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Scouting and Guiding in Barbados

Is this dab page really necessary? Bearian (talk) 12:47, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There are actually quite a few unsourced similar dab pages. Do you all want to keep them and source them, or delete them? Bearian (talk) 12:51, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seamen's Institute

Please add reliable sources to this stub. I found this and the ones mentioned in the section immediately above, while working on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Backlog drives/June 2025. Bearian (talk) 12:52, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Girl Guides

There is a discussion on the Talk:Girl Guides#Girl Guides or girl-only Scout organisations? about changing the purpose of the Girl Guides article to be specifically about Girl Guide organizations but not Girl Scout organizations that might be of interest to some here. Erp (talk) 02:02, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that the description at the top for the purpose of the articles Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, etc. didn't exactly make sense: "General summary pages that have see also links to other Scouting pages. Used to avoid to lead users to more indepth articles, no longer disambiguation pages due to all the confusion of different naming conventions. All other plurals redirect to the singular per Wikipedia standard, not to Scouting or a separate organization oriented article"; the previous version was "Disambiguation pages due to all the confusion of different naming conventions. All other plurals redirect to the singular per Wikipedia standard, not to Scouting or a separate organization oriented article ". I edited it so it made some sense. I hunted down the revision (July 2007) where the last change took place (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Scouting&oldid=144658662) and the discussion related to it Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Scouting/Archive_2007#Girl_Guides_-_dab_or_stub?. However the discussion doesn't seem to fully support the change in text. In addition the Girl Guides article certainly isn't following either version. Thoughts? --Erp (talk) 10:20, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]