Talk:Scout prayers

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Rerating[edit]

I set the importance to low: There is not much to say about Scout prayers beyond "Prayers said by or especially formulated for Scouts". --jergen 11:29, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is this article a noteable or a bogus Wiki article? When I was a Scout in the BSA, I belonged to a total of four different troops as a result of family moves (with the troops sponsored by two different Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ), one Baptist church, and one Episcopal church) and I never once encountered the Scout prayer books as described by this article.

Outside of materials pertaining to the diversity of religion in the Scout Handbook, Scout Oath, Scout Laws, merit badges, or external (and optional) religious awards information requested by individual boy scouts, I would have to say this Scout prayer book section is suspect. I suggest that this non-referenced article is attempt to exert the desire of a few of the many and the aricle should be be considered for deletion.Bee Cliff River Slob 05:41, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was a cub scout and boy scout - I have NEVER heard of any of this, and it stinks to high heaven (pun intended). If I were a little more experienced, I'd mark it for swift deletion. A Doon (talk) 00:33, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

BSA-specific?[edit]

The chosen prayers seem to be BSA-centered; we should move the article to Scout prayer (BSA) or include some non-BSA prayers whilst removing the BSA ones. I'm against including all know Scout prayers: As am member of a Protestant Scout organization I know at least 20 German frequently used Scout prayers. --jergen 11:29, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How about a merge to Religion in Scouting? --Gadget850 ( Ed) 15:18, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

5 years on and this is still a complete mess. The lede talks about the US, yet we have a Rover Prayer when the US does not really have Rovers and the Cub Scout one, which was recently replaced and I added back because I found a source, is from the UK. It was almost totally lacking in references before I added two. Perhaps it should be cut back as ED suggests but it would need to be a quite small section and properly referenced. --Bduke (Discussion) 01:29, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We now have an IP editor removing this refenced material. To him/her I say that referenced material should not be removed in favour of non-referenced material and that we should discuss the scope of this article here. Also edits should be explained in an edit summary. --Bduke (Discussion) 05:46, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 15 February 2019[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Move. --evrik ^(talk) 17:36, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The request to rename this article to Scout prayers has been carried out.

Scout prayer → Prayers used in Scouting – I suggest changing it to a more workable title. --evrik ^(talk) 17:04, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Scouting prayers or just Scout prayers (just adding an 's') would cover the topic adequately and concisely. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:08, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No strong view. Happy to leave it as is or any of the above suggestions. --Bduke (talk) 05:47, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for dropping by. Randy Kryn (talk) 21:07, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm okay with Randy Kryn's suggestions. --evrik ^(talk) 18:48, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I kept going back and forth on which one is more appropriate for the information in the page. 'Scouting prayers' seems fine, but because many of the prayer titles contain the words 'Scout prayer', 'Scout prayers' seems more accurate. I wonder if they give a prayer merit-badge? Randy Kryn (talk) 21:06, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I support Scout prayers as well. Qzekrom (talk) 01:40, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

With WP:PLURAL in mind, what is the problem?. — AjaxSmack 18:52, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Since the page lists and discusses quite a few different prayers it seems to fall into the WP:PLURAL exception language: "Articles on groups or classes of specific things". 'Scout prayer' still covers the topic generally, but 'Scout prayers' covers it better and likely fits that exception language. Randy Kryn (talk) 19:01, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - OK, then. Use Scout prayers. — AjaxSmack 19:10, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.