Talk:Commissioner Service (Boy Scouts of America)

This article was nominated for deletion on 25 March 2021. The result of the discussion was redirect.

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Attention tag[edit]

Article needs some work. The BSA picked up the idea of commissioners from the UK Scout Association. Also, AFAIK, most of the early National Scout Commissioners, other then Beard, only lasted a year or so. Will have to check my copy of Murray tonight. --Emb021 19:49, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you can fill in those blank dates that would be great. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 20:18, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:BSACommissioner.jpg[edit]

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I just provided it the FU rationale.Rlevse 01:36, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Name of this article[edit]

I think this article should be renamed to Commissioner Service (Boy Scouts of America) as it is a specific BSA article and Commissioners are found all over the Scouting world. I am also not convinced that this is of high importance for the Scouting Project - maybe Mid importance. --Bduke (Discussion) 05:35, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

@Bduke: now may be the time to make that change. Do you have content for the rest of the world? --evrik ^(talk) 23:35, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Evrik: I agree that now is the time to make the change, but I suggest someone from the US makes it. Can the rename be made by someone who is not an admin? I gave up my admin hat a few months ago, as I am not that reliable in my old age.--Bduke (talk) 23:46, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I just realized that Scout Commissioner already exists, so I pointed the Commissioner Service article there. --evrik ^(talk) 01:16, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Restructuring[edit]

@Drmies: Before you start slashing the article, please discuss the problems here. If you want to tag problematic sections or passages, please do so so we can focus on your areas of concern. --evrik ^(talk) 23:34, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

evrik, no need to be passive-aggressive--passive in your pretense about my concerns (primary sourcing, unencyclopedic content, no notability in the broader world, etc.), and aggressive in reverting it anyway. You know perfectly well that Wikipedia should not be a mirror for the BSA, and that if it weren't for COI editors much of this material (and many of these articles) would have been deleted or redirected a long time ago. Please see WP:DISCLOSE. Drmies (talk) 00:16, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, lots of aggression and accusations in that post. About mirroring, again some more aggression and accusations. I'm not sure why you bring up COI - are you saying someone is getting paid? If you want to tag the passages and references you think are problematic, please do. This article could use improvement, but wholesale slashing of the content is uncalled for. --evrik ^(talk) 00:27, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You know very well that a COI doesn't require payment. Drmies (talk) 00:33, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you're making an allegation, please be up front about it. Otherwise, please stop the insinuation. --evrik ^(talk) 02:04, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]