Talk:Scouting in Tennessee

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Would Wikipedians entertain the idea of having the Councils-by-state sections recategorized to "Scouting in Arizona", "Scouting in Washington", and so on, rather than a list of every council and district? The reason I would like this considered is

1) no other country's Scouting articles are divided into such minute details (except for The Scout Association of Hong Kong, and really, is that much minutiae important or interesting to the reader?)

2) many councils that a reader may choose to look up, like the Fitchburg Area Council of Massachusetts or the Vigilante Area Council of Montana, went extinct 30+ years ago, yet may be of interest in a more state-based article

3) many states like Alaska share a communal Scout history, only fairly recently being broken into smaller councils, others like North Dakota had several merged into one, and some Scouting histories are better told encompassing an entire state. The fact that Scouts in California prior to the charter of the BSA were the youth arm of the California Highway Patrol, or the fact that Connecticut, while having only eight counties, has had 22 councils over the course of its history, would be well-included in a statewide article

Chris 01:03, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Historical council information to be folded in

Historical council information to be folded in -Kintetsubuffalo (talk • contribs) 22:05, 20 September 2006

• Hook, James; Franck, Dave; Austin, Steve (1982). An Aid to Collecting Selected Council Shoulder Patches with Valuation.

• Tennessee Clarksville Council 1917 1919
• Tennessee Lafollette Council 1921 1923
• Tennessee 556 Chattanooga Council 1918 1925 changed name to Chattanooga Area 556 1925
• Tennessee 556 Chattanooga Area Council 1925 1944 changed name to Cherokee Area 556 1944
• Tennessee 556 Cherokee Area Council 1944
• Tennessee 768 Cumberland Council 1927 1929 merged into Knoxville Area 557 1929
• Tennessee 557 Knox County Council 1915 1930 merged into Knoxville Area 557 1930
• Tennessee 557 Knoxville Area Council 1930 1943 changed name to Great Smoky Mountain 557 1943
• Tennessee 557 Great Smoky Mountain Council 1943
• Tennessee 558 Memphis Council 1915 1925 changed name to Chickasaw 558 1925
• Mississippi 692 Sunflower River Council 1925 1929 merged into Delta Area 300 1929
• Mississippi 300 Delta Area Council 1924 1993 January 1 merged into Chickasaw 558 1993 January 1
• Tennessee 558 Chickasaw Council 1925
• Tennessee 559 Johnson City Council 1919 1923 changed name to Washington County 559 1923
• Tennessee 559 Washington County Council 1923 1925 changed name to Appalachian 559 1925
• Tennessee 559 Appalachian Council 1925 merged into West Tennessee Area 559 1925
• Texas 559 Quanah Parker Council 1928 1931 1/2 merged into West Tennessee 559 1931
• Tennessee 687 West Tennessee Council 1924 1930 Direct Service/merged into??
• Tennessee 559 West Tennessee Area Council 1939?
• Tennessee 560 Nashville Council 1920 1929 changed name to Nashville Area 560 1929
• Tennessee 15 Davy Crockett Council 1927 1930 merged into Nashville Area 560 1930
• Tennessee 555 Middle Tennessee Council 1928 1930 merged into Nashville Area 560 1930
• Tennessee 560 Nashville Area Council 1929 1949 changed name to Middle Tennessee 560 1949
• Tennessee 560 Middle Tennessee Council 1949
• Tennessee 559 Cherokee Area Council 1925 1929 merged into Chief Benge-Cherokee 713 1929
• Virginia 713 Chief Benge Council 1925 1929 merged into Chief Benge-Cherokee 713 1929
• Virginia 713 Chief Benge-Cherokee Council 1929 1931 changed name to Sequoyah 713 1931
• Tennessee 713 Sequoyah Council 1931

Cleanup needed

As written, this article is essentially an annotated collection of external links. It is not an encyclopedia article. It could be improved by writing some more informational content and converting those links to reference citations to support the content.--orlady 19:00, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

I have started on this, and have added a maintained tag. If you would like to help on this, please add yourself to the tag. I am only familiar with the BSA side, and would like some help with Girls Scouts, and any other scouting organization in Tennessee. What does everyone think being an overview with links directing to the specific councils pages(that have not been created yet)?? Click23 (talk) 15:59, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Scouting in Tennessee/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

==Importance== Low importance. This topic is not of interest for a general audience. This is true at least for the Wiki project Tennessee. The scouting project should have the last word on any issues regardig this aticle. ==Quality== Start class. The article is structured but mostly contains lists. To improve quality, images could be added and a references should be introduced.

Last edited at 03:51, 21 April 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 05:38, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Own Council Articles

I feel like some of the Boy Scouting councils need their own Wikipedia pages. Some of them already do, looks like it needs to be consistent.

Following are needed:

• Cherokee Area Council
• Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Other#Middle_Tennessee_Council- Already started request. See link to push process.
• Sequoyah Council
• West Tennessee Area Council

I don't know about the Girl Scouts very much, but they might need their own articles as well:

• Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta
• Girl Scouts Heart of the South
• Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee
• Girl Scout Council of the Southern Appalachians

Thankyou!  mrwoogi010  ^Talk 02:50, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Middle Tennessee Council Article has been finished. mrwoogi010  ^Talk 15:50, 18 December 2018 (UTC)