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Should we include a bit on the legal status of building campfires? Especially in good parts of Europe it is generally forbidden to do so.2001:610:308:692:BC7A:10AA:9770:5AA7 (talk) 18:04, 19 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Chopping some deadwood from this forest of original research

This article is, quite frankly, terrible. I started with the most obvious target, the unsourced section that says scouts drink ashes mixed with water. Sounds like a snipe hunt situation to me, but even if true it needs a source. As drinking ashes could in fact be quit detrimental to one's health I have removed that section entirely and would ask that it not be restored until a proper, reliable source is attached. Now, on to the rest of the article. Most of it appears to be personal observations. Some of it, for example the description of the "Schwedenfackel" style of fire building, makes little to no sense. Only one source is used for the entire article, leading me to believe that vast portions of this article are in fact original research. This thing needs a serious makeover. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:46, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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 Should we include a bit on the legal status of building campfires? Especially in good parts of Europe it is generally forbidden to do so.[[Special:Contributions/2001:610:308:692:BC7A:10AA:9770:5AA7|2001:610:308:692:BC7A:10AA:9770:5AA7]] ([[User talk:2001:610:308:692:BC7A:10AA:9770:5AA7|talk]]) 18:04, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
+== Chopping some deadwood from this forest of original research ==
+This article is, quite frankly, terrible. I started with the most obvious target, the unsourced section that says scouts drink ashes mixed with water. Sounds like a [[snipe hunt]] situation to me, but even if true it needs a source. As drinking ashes could in fact be quit detrimental to one's health I have removed that section entirely and would ask that it not be restored until a proper, reliable source is attached. Now, on to the rest of the article. Most of it appears to be personal observations. Some of it, for example the description of the "Schwedenfackel" style of fire building, makes little to no sense. Only ''one'' source is used for the entire article, leading me to believe that vast portions of this article are in fact [[WP:OR|original research]]. This thing needs a serious makeover. [[User:Beeblebrox|Beeblebrox]] ([[User talk:Beeblebrox|talk]]) 19:46, 4 December 2012 (UTC)