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The United States section appeared to have been copied almost verbatim from
http://www.seascout.org/about/history.html - probable copyright violation as that site appears to date from 2002. Replaced with an external link. --
Keith Edkins 15:05, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
In line with the wikiproject policy of only have highly notable groups (i.e., the first to do something), I don't think it is suitable that the
4th New Forest North (Eling) Sea Scouts article should be seperate from the main article on . Looking through the other article, almost all of the information could be used generically under a UK Sea Scout section in this article.
Horus Kol13:35, 5 September 2006 (UTC)reply
Update to my comment above - I have added everything (edited) from the section Testwood lakes in the article (inc Hampshire Wildlife Trust, and New HQ) to
Testwood Lakes, so these can be removed and not lost. I suggest the rest goes between
Sea Scouts and
Scouting in Hampshire, but am not sure which bits to put where, but I can give it a guess if someone wants to tidy it up afterwards and check it seems ok. I know a little about all the things - Scouts (not sea scouts though), Hampshire (and Hampshire scouts), and Eling.
Ben20:21, 5 September 2006 (UTC)reply
Looks okay for now - I think the
Scouting in Hampshire article will need to be rewritten as more information comes about the county - with 28 districts, it is going to be difficult to have that kind of information about individual groups in there... I'll remove the merge tag, and recommend the
4th New Forest North (Eling) Sea Scouts article for deletion. Thanks for your help Ben.
Horus Kol07:38, 7 September 2006 (UTC)reply
More BSA Bias
I've just been reading through this article, and it reads like a BSA article than a generic Sea Scout one... there was already a call to merge the BSA article - and while the reasoning behind not merging seems correct, a lot of information in here is just exactly the same as what the BSA article has - and there is very little in the way of generic information, from what I can tell...
Horus Kol13:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)reply
I've plopped the main article link in - I'm just not sure how to cut down the BSA section here to bring it in line with the other countries' information here...
Horus Kol10:10, 6 September 2006 (UTC)reply
sorry, but these are two different things entirely... the numbers quoted in the table for the UK are only correct for the 10-14 age range... Sea Explorers are only partnered to Sea Scout Groups, and so their membership is not counted in those 10,000 Sea Scouts...
Horus Kol14:20, 14 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Just add the number of Sea Explorers to the 10,000. Both are scouts with a particular emphasis on water-based activities. Most other numbers include all sections with a particular emphasis on water-based activities.
The problem is that Belgium has 4 organization which has each 1 to 5 diferent "sea" sections ("Sea Beavers" to "Sea Rovers") with their own names and ages and the Netherlands has 4 diferent "sea" sections ("Sea Cubs" to "Sea Rovers"). Some info came from:
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EgelReaction?14:59, 14 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Why does there have to be a founder?
An editor claimed
Warrington Baden-Powell was the founder of the Sea Scouts but there is no evidence to this effect and considerable evidence of Sea Scouts before his involvement which, in any case, seems to have been very limited (e.g. he is not even listed as an officer or member in reports of The Boy Scouts Association. The most that could be claimed is that he was honoured with being the nominal "founder" of sea scouting within The Scout Association. We now have a more diverse knowledge and view of scout history and this article is not about the SA or BSA POV.
Loss of Sea Scout vessels
Given the history of tragic losses of Sea Scouts, this should be a section to expand.
References to "Sea Scouts" in Chums
Egel's edit seems to have been based on the Wikipedia article on
Chums magazine without sighting the magazines. Chums referred to "Boy Scouts" as well as the subtitles "Scouts of the Sea" and "Sea Scouts of the Empire". The British Boy Scouts had Sea Scouts before Baden-Powell's organization. — Preceding
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00:57, 22 April 2013 (UTC)reply
My edits were based on the
Chums and other pages on the The Order of World Scouts website. On that site there is no clue that the British Boys Naval Brigade / National Naval Cadets were ever part of the British Boy Scouts. You can only find that they worked together and shared Chums as their official journal. Nor can you find that the BBS had Sea Scouts before 1910. So far as I know is The Order of World Scouts website the best source of information about the BBS. --
EgelReaction?09:09, 22 April 2013 (UTC)reply