Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting

Goals and Scope

Welcome to the Scouting WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to all aspects of Scouting, which covers any movement or organization that uses the Scout method: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Girl Guides, Royal Rangers, etc.

If you would like to join us, please feel free to add your name to the list of project members!

Goals

• To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of Scouting.
• To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Scouting by creating, expanding, improving, and maintaining such articles.
• To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Scouting in Wikipedia.

Scope

The project generally considers any article related to Scouting to be within its scope.

Coordinators

Lead coordinator: Rlevse

Article improvement: Wimvandorst

Project mediation: Bduke

Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting Task Force: Kingbird

Philmont Scout Ranch Task Force: Johntex

Image tagging: B

Scouting WikiProject members who are Wikipedia Admins

Johntex • B • Savidan • Rlevse • John Reaves • RG2 • Darthgriz98 • Bduke • Balloonman • The Placebo Effect • MBK004 • Gadget850 • JGHowes

Note: put newest admin at the end of the list

Scouting WikiProject members who are Wikipedia Bureaucrats, Checkusers, and/or Oversighters

Rlevse •

Announcements and open tasks

Note: New items go on TOP

1. Order of the Arrow is now GA, congrats to all involved
2. Congrats to User:Erp, newest recipient of the Scouting Barnstar
3. Please vote in the Poll on the usage of Guiding in article titles.

Watchlist of Scouting articles in need of attention

• Category:Scouting articles needing attention
• Also see: Project "To do" list

Article alerts

Categories for discussion

• 09 Jan 2025 – Category:Scouting and Guiding in the State of Palestine (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Timrollpickering (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 25 Sep 2024 – National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to National Youth Leadership Training by Demt1298 (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Jan 2025 – Bushcraft (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Woodcraft by Srleffler (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 03 Jan 2025 – Woodcraft (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Bushcraft by Srleffler (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Articles to be split

• 08 Dec 2024 – Nicolae Iorga (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by PrinceTortoise (t · c); see discussion
• 15 Jul 2024 – Prince Andrew, Duke of York (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by AjaxSmack (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

Note: these are peer reviews requested within the Scouting Project, for a Wikipedia-wide peer review, see WP:PR.

• Robert J. Mazzuca
• National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience

Pending deletions

Discuss!

• Redirect Bill Waters → W. F. Waters see discussion here Kept

Pending renames, merges, etc

• Air Scouts rename to Air Scouting 09:20, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

No rationale or discussion for the rename

• Savez izviđača Hrvatske rename to Scout Association of Croatia merge completed
• Sussex East merge to Girlguiding London and South East England merge completed
• Resica Falls Scout Reservation merge to Cradle of Liberty Council

N closed: no discussion, no consensus

• Lone Tree Scout Reservation merge to Yankee Clipper Council
• Camp Byng merge to Scouting in British Columbia
• Golden Arrow (Scouting) merge to 3rd World Scout Jamboree
• Category:Wikipedians who collect Scouting memorabilia rename: see Wikipedia:User categories for discussion#"Wikipedians who collect" categories
• Gulf Coast council merge to Scouting in Florida; was recreated after previous merge
• South Florida council merge to Scouting in Florida; was recreated after previous merge
• Southwest Florida council merge to Scouting in Florida; was recreated after previous merge
• West Central Florida council merge to Scouting in Florida; was recreated after previous merge
• Central Florida Council merge to Scouting in Florida; was recreated after previous merge
• Gulf Stream Council merge to Scouting in Florida
• Vässarö merge to Svenska Scoutförbundet
• Rovering in Victoria to Scouting in Victoria
• Vovkulaky → Plast
• Northern Pinkster Camp merge to Scouting Nederland 10:54, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
• merge Savez Izviđača Srbije i Crne Gore into Savez Izviđača Srbije (not just redirected, not all the info is the same, need a fresh pair of eyes) 04:48, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

New Scouting articles

New articles moved to here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/New articles, from January 2006 on.

The following are our recent new articles Scouting-related articles on Wikipedia. Please feel free to add your own (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page.

Note: If you remove something from here, please archive it to the New Articles page.

• Honors and awards of Yawgoog Scout Reservation, found and tagged 08:47, 25 February 2009 (UTC) Candidate for deletion? jergen (talk)
• Drayton McLane, Jr. - Silver Buffalo awardee and VP of the Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America 11:07, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
• Werner Heisenberg, found, added Scouting facts and tagged-14:56, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Requested Scouting articles

Further information: Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/Todo

How you can help

If you would like to participate, add yourself to the members section of this page.

You can help out by editing a Scouting-related article, improving our current collaboration of the week (at right), helping to complete a task on our to-do list, or contributing to the discussion on one of our related talk pages. If you would like some suggestions, just ask on the talk page.

If you find a Scouting-related article without our template, please place our template {{ScoutingWikiProject}} at the top of the talk page. You can also add this to the talk page of images, categories, and templates.

If you find a Scouting-related article without our portal tag, please place our portal tag, {{portal|Scouting|Scout logo2.svg}}, in the "See also" section of the article. This will advertise our portal and make it easy to navigate to.

If you find a Scouting-related stub article that has not yet been marked as a stub, add {{Scout-stub}} to the bottom of the article. It will automatically be included in the Scouting stubs category, where you can find plenty of stub articles to expand if you are itching to do something.

Put a project-related userbox on your user page, especially the project member userbox.

Related Wikiportals

Visit our featured portal at Portal:Scouting. It was created on Jan 28, 2006.

Portal features (content rotates monthly):

• Selected article of the month
• Scouting news
• Selected picture of the month
• Collaboration of the month
• Selected biography of the month
• Did you know...
• Selected anniversaries
• Scouting lists
• Categories
• Scouting by region
• WikiProjects

Related pages in Sister projects

• Commons:Scouting
• Commons:Category:Scouting
• ScoutWiki in thirteen languages
• Wikibooks:Scouting
• Wiktionary:Scouting

Sister Project Searches

• WikiBooks search
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