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242:: I was a Scout as a youth and then became a leader in The Scout Association (UK), later moving to the Baden-Powell Scouts Association. It was during this move that I discovered the Knowledge article on the B-PSA which, at that time, had a lot of issues that I felt needed to be addressed. Once that article was complete I moved onto other areas, but became interested in ensuring that all Scouting organisations were being treated equally, and that Knowledge was presenting an appropriate breadth of coverage of Scouting topics.
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385:: It would be nice to see additional input from Guides and Girl Scouts, as it always seems that the majority of editors are entering Knowledge from Scouting, and are usually male. If this happened then the Girl Guide task force could be restored quickly. Not being an American, I have little understanding of the Philmont Scout Ranch task force.
334:: There does seem to be less activity than there was – possibly because most organisations are now represented and the majority of articles have reached a state of equilibrium. I am sure that additional editors from around the world could, however, add a lot more detail to the articles attempting to describe Scouting in their regions.
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291:: Probably. I tend to not notice whether an an article is featured or good. I have never set out to improve an article to make it featured or good. I am more interested in just getting new information into articles. I have however been active in most of the arguments about the article on Baden-Powell.
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