Talk:Scout (Scouting)/GA1

GA Reassessment

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This article is seriously lacking in sources, tagged since 2012. It also appears too short and lacks details regarding some of the controversies. AIRcorn (talk) 09:49, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Which parts needs more sources?

(national) Organisations can have controversies, but this article is about the age group.

--Egel _Reaction? 10:47, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Fair enough about controversies. Most of it needs sources. There are vast sections uncited and we have things like Many boys joined Scouting activities, resulting in the movement growing rapidly to become the world's largest youth organization. which definitely need them. AIRcorn (talk) 11:37, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

There are challenges presented by the very nature of the title/subject. The term / title means a member of Scouting, which means a member of any one of hundreds of organizations worldwide with tens of millions of members, at any point in the over-a-century of existence of such organizations. What should be the content of such an article that would not be just of duplication of Scouting? IMO this should just be a redirect to Scouting, or else a very brief article explaining the term. North8000 (talk) 13:03, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Works for me. Scouting is a FA and there is not much here that cannot be covered at that article. Let me know if this goes ahead and I will close the reassessment. AIRcorn (talk) 18:13, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

It is not about a member in general, but a member of the "Scout" section so it goes alongside the articles on "Cub Scouts", "Rover Scouts", etc. The problem is that the sections differ widely across the world. The "Scout" sectioned used to be for boys 11 - 18, but is now generally for the age range 11 - 15 with many organisations admitting girls as well as boys. It just needs some work. We can not lose this article and keep the artciles on the other sections such as Age groups in Scouting and Guiding, Beavers, Cub Scout, Venture Scout, Rover Scout, Rainbow Guides, Brownie Guides, Girl Guides, Ranger Guides, Air Scouts, Extension Scouting, Lone Scouts, Lone Guides and Sea Scout. If is not up to being a good article, just remove that status. --Bduke (talk) 21:43, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

I would defer to and concur with Bduke. North8000 (talk) 22:08, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Aircorn, could you finish this review? --MrClog (talk) 18:19, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

• So sorry for the delay. Still serious issues with sourcing so will delist. AIRcorn (talk) 09:07, 7 October 2019 (UTC)