Talk:Owasippe Scout Reservation

message: In compliance with Scouting WikiProject policy on sub-council entities, I propose the expansion of this article into a larger Chicago Area Council article, with information added from Scouting_in_Illinois#Chicago_Area_Council. Local articles really need to be council level rather than by camp or lodge. Examples of good Council articles include Cradle of Liberty Council and Chester County Council, all others have been or are stubs, and we really are trying to avoid sub-council articles. Chris 02:12, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Since this applies to a camp and not a subunit of a council, I don't think the policy applies.  In fact, having looked at said policy and the associated discussion, I find no mention of articles for camps at all.  Besides, detailed descriptions and histories of the most prominent camps are more readily available (and, IMHO, more interesting) than those of councils.  There's already enough information here to merit its remaining a separate article, and it appears no pressing need to split off the CAC section from the Scouting in Illinois page.  Thesquire (talk - contribs) 04:18, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

text: True, the RulesStandards page doesn't mention council camps and reservations by name (we should fix that), but they are considered subunits of councils. IMHO the size of this article is borderline as to make it part of a CAC article or leave it separate. If this article were expanded, it would easily warrant standing alone. Then a CAC article could be made with a summary and main link about this article.Rlevse 10:11, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: expand, as per nomination and discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scouting/RulesStandards. Chris 01:18, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: expansion request

message: By adding a section of Staffperson of the year, we can not only expand the article there by preventing  it from being merged with a CAC article, and also recognize these parts of OSR history that it lacks. True there are not any "famous" staff people of the year, but they have made extraordinary contributions to the camp and scouting community and also are recognized by their peers. This section has been added already, but deleted by over-zealous wikipedia checkers who do not agree that this has a place here, when in fact it is part of the history of Owasippe (especially if the list could be completed). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.3.21.125 (talk • contribs) 22:12, 13 August 2006  (UTC)
:WP:NOT a directory, nor is it an indiscriminate collection of information. I also happen to know that this anonymous user is one of the persons on the mentioned list (since he yelled at me via an online messaging program), and as such this is an issue of vanity.-- Thesquire (talk - contribs) 20:43, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, "Name withheld to avoid vanity argument" is tantamount to admitting you're wrong.  Why do you keep adding it? -- Thesquire (talk - contribs) 06:36, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vanity Discussion

message: I added a second photo of the Camp Stuart swim area, taken from the same position in 2006. ADH 20:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Swim Area

message: I looked around at other Wikipedia artices.
Articles about cities often say In the U. S. State of Michigan, but articles about other things, (Hope College, [[Wabash College], for instance) do not qualify the city/state location with the country.
I think it would make the overall Wiki harder to create if we went in to everything associated with a city and state and added a country.
:ADH 06:02, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Country reference 

message: I removed this section as it is a verbatim copy from http://www.owasippe.com/viewpage.asp?id=123, and appears to violate that site's copyright. Kevin Forsyth (talk) 23:44, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Legend" had been kicking around for long enough that I'm not sure anyone can claim authorship, other than possibly the Chicago Area Council.  That said, I support its removal as being unencyclopedic. - Thesquire (talk - contribs) 01:54, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legend of Chief Owasippe 

message: Does anyone think that discussing staff olympics for example is just completely useless? It has nothing to do with Owasippe itself, it's really just something staff does to occupy a weekend. It sure would not be in an encyclopedia. As with the "pranks" section.  Seanhaneberg (talk) 20:32, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree - a lot of the recently added information is definitely Not Notable. Thesquire (talk - contribs) 00:30, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Alright, I removed a lot of fluff and tried to fix some rather poor prose.  Feel free to continue touching up the article.  I'd like to remove the Staffperson of the Year section as well, but we've already had that discussion. Thesquire (talk - contribs) 01:46, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useless Information 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Look for the lost text here. --evrik (talk) 02:14, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone took a machete to this