Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of merit badges (Boy Scouts of America)

History of merit badges (Boy Scouts of America)

Announcement pursuant to the renaming of "Merit badge types (BSA)" to History of merit badges (Boy Scouts of America), and in the interest of making the prior talk more readable, remaining comments except for support votes are archived here; the clutter was getting hard to read. Feel free to move your comments back to this page if you like – see Note below, or if you prefer, I'll move it for you. Rlevse 01:35, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Look here for an archive of solved issues (to make the FAC readable). I have only moved objections that have been stricken and resolved, and kept, the end vote at the top of this original FAC page. Feel free to move your resolved issues to that page, or strike them here and I'll move them for you, as this page is admittedly getting cluttered and very hard to read. -Rebelguys2 16:34, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Re-submission and self-nom. The issues in the prior peer review and FAC round have been addressed; the archive is at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Merit badge collecting (BSA). In addition, many other improvements have been made. I think the article is an excellent introduction about a subject on which little information is available and has a good layout.Rlevse 03:27, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

• That's much better. I no longer object to the article being FA, but I'm not sure I support it since it seems that the organization may need a bit of work. The emphasis on the article seems to be on the types of merit badges which is definitely needed, but there are other contexts that seem to be shortchanged (such as the history of merit badges, etc.) I don't know enough about the subject though, so I'll refrain from voting. --ScienceApologist 15:28, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

I didn't go into the history more because that'd be at least a 100-page book. Rlevse 16:39, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

• Support - Well done and interesting article and the linking issue has been resolved! --Naha|^(talk) 17:45, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
• Support - While it may not seem that long to some, this article HAS come quite a long way since its first FA nomination. And while I've had a hand in some of the changes and cleanup, credit really must go to Rlevse for guiding the article. --JohnDBuell 18:00, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
• Support - This is my first time viewing the article and I am stunned by how good it is. I have been earning these badges while as a youth and after reading this, I was able to see the history behind these very badges. Zach ^{(Smack Back)} 19:31, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Nice improvements, article is really good. One last thing. Find some reference for this: "Careers and life-long hobbies are often the result of a Scout earning a merit badge."

JoaoRicardo^talk 06:06, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

This link was made about 31 Dec. Rlevse 15:37, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

• Support. Excellent article overall. I found it very intresting and engaging. I enjoyed the layout due to the fact it made the article easy to read while not skimping on the information.Coffeeboy 19:08, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
• Support. Very nice man, glad to see this article got cleaned up! Staxringold 01:50, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Note I went through the talk in the renaming archive and the remaining issue(s), not counting the renaming which I did late last night, center around clarifying the scope and focus of the article, which User:Rebelguys2 has agreed to do. I found it difficult to cut out the talk on this as it appeared to me to be interwined with issues that in my opinion are now fixed, so this is why I moved that talk to the renaming archive. Rlevse 11:09, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

• Support, with a few comments: Tuf-Kat 03:10, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

the lead should have the phrase history of merit badges in bold somewhere

I prefer the more natural title history of merit badges in the Boy Scouts of America, though I won't object over this