Talk:Boy Scout/Archive 1

message: *Should it read "readership"?  or "leadership"? Dnajenks 17:44, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Readership is correct, as the book was intended both for the boys who were to be Scouts, and the adults who were to be leaders. -- Horus Kol Talk 23:48, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Recommendations for further improvement

message: I nibbled away more tonight at the above. Please put new comments here as it's getting hard to follow all those indents. Rlevse 02:12, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nibbles

message: ((this was pasted from Cub Scout for informational purposes}}Rlevse 13:03, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  duplicate entry 

message: The cover photo shows BSA Boy Scouts. Suggest that a photo of a world jamboree showing Scouts from multiple countries be used instead or other photos be added of international Scouts. --Jagz 17:59, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If I find a good one, I'll use it...it'd also be good not to reuse the one in Scouting. What's good about the current one is they're in uniform, bright colors, in focus, no adults, outdoors, you can see their faces, and they're having fun. Rlevse 18:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Is this a good one?: colorfull, mix-race, uniform, bright colors, in focus, no adults, outdoors, you can see their faces, and they're having fun.--Egel Reaction? 07:55, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I like that one. The only flags are Swiss though-;). Rlevse 10:03, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

text: The only thing about this one is that there are girls in it and this is an article specifically on Boy Scouts. Some may object to that; but on the other hand several Boy Scout organizations are now coed. So, I feel it's fine to use for this article. I think this is a better lead photo for the article than the previous one (I moved it to "Activities", which I feel is an excelleent spot for it). This Eurosong photo would also be good in an international article. Glad Egel found it.Rlevse 10:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Altavista translation of the italian description: Scout coming from from various nations sings with the Lager-Song to the festivity of closing of Eurojam 2005 --Egel Reaction? 10:23, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cover photo 

message: I've seen BSA bias in the many articles that are supposed to be more generic - unsurprising what with the large numbers of BSA members on the project... still, as more and more articles are being put up for other nationalities, could we try a bit harder on spreading the load? For example, in the see also section in this article, three of the links (Daniel Carter Beard, Ernest Thompson Seton, and History of merit badges (Boy Scouts of America)) have no real relevance to Scouting outside of the USA... Horus Kol 09:52, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: True. I'll cut them....Also true while our project is open to all, most who've joined are from the USA. I sincerely wish more were from outside the USA. What is more of a difference is the proportion of members that work on Boy Scout articles vs Girl Scout articles.  We need more Girl Scout editors worse than we need more non-USA editors.Rlevse 11:37, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't doubt it - I wonder how we recruit all these people... what with millions of members across the world, you'd think we'd have representatives from all walks of life 13:28, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Boy Scout Handbook is a article about the BSA version. Ernest Thompson Seton has relevance to Scouting outside of the USA see Fédération Nationale des Eclaireurs et Eclaireuses du Luxembourg and Junák but the article is too BSA. Seton is relevant to scouting as inspiration for BP not as founder of the BSA. Maybe see also Woodcraft? --Egel Reaction? 14:43, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I'm flip flopping here. I'm adding Seton back as he had lots of influence in Canada and UK. The handbook article is BSA-oriented but until it or its cousin is more international, I think it should stay as it's basic to Scouting.Rlevse 16:40, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  BSA Bias 

message: I can't believe there is no mention of the woggle on this page - it is a crucial part of the scout uniform! Suicup 00:24, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you mean Wood Badge woggle, see that article. This article is about the youth Boy Scout, not adults.Rlevse 00:37, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: actually, I agree with Suicup - there's no mention of Woggle in the Boy Scout article - but why is Wood Badge listed as part of the Boy Scout uniform? Horus Kol 08:59, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't recall and I didn't notice it was in there yesterday, but I suppose because it's a worldwide uniform part. Since it's not a youth piece, I took it out. I also noted that woggle is also called slide since many people don't know what woggle means. Rlevse 11:12, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair does... I didn't know if other Scout organisation gave Wood Badges to under-18s... one of my leaders has started a system of giving something similar to the Wood Badge to Young Leaders. Horus Kol 11:33, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In the US they have youth training programs like Wood Badge, but it has various names over the years, but they don't get the WB neckerchief and woggle. Rlevse 12:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Woggle

message: The Cub Scouts article has links to nationally specific articles for the Cub/Cub Scout/Wolf Cub sections - could we do a similar thing with the Boy Scout article? Horus Kol 17:45, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we should remove the national ones in the Cub article. A link to a list of national associations would be okay, similar to what we just did on the Scouting article. Rlevse 17:48, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: So you're proposing that we have sections in this article on each countries take on the Scout Programme (and Cubs and so on)? Horus Kol 08:56, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to National Scout Articles 

message: The image :Image:ScoutFun.png is not appearing for some reason. --Jagz 17:58, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Lots of images aren't showing up right now. Don't know why. See here.Rlevse 18:04, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The image don't like to be 200px wide at the moment. Don't know why. Some serverproblem? --Egel Reaction? 18:16, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Have found out there is a notice on commons that the thumbnails aren't working, they are working on it.Rlevse 18:17, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image