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Many editors desire to add articles on subjects of local or non-national interest, such as camps and units. These articles often begin as crufty stubs that do not meet Wikipedia:Notability guidelines and are soon deleted or merged. Managing articles of this nature takes up limited resources best used elsewhere and dealing with the merge and deletion of articles can be contentious.
Editors are encouraged to use a top-down approach; to expand high level articles to the point where they can be split into smaller articles of good quality. Thus, a state article may beget a council article that begets a camp article.
The top level article in this context is the Scouting in <state> article, such as Scouting in Virginia. The state article covers all of the councils with a presence in that state. Since some councils cross state boundaries, the council will be noted in all of the states and the main section will be in the state article where the council headquarters are located. Links will be placed in each article back to the main article section.
When a council section is of sufficient length and quality, it may be split into a separate article. District, lodge, chapter and camp articles should remain within the council article, and should be split if and only if there is sufficient notability on a national level.
Units such as packs, troops, teams, crews and ships should not be included as separate articles or as sections within council or state unless they meet notability standards.
Some of the information that should be included:
Do not include cruft such as:
A standard format has been developed to aid in article development:
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