Talk:World Scout Jamboree

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The contents of the Jamboree on the Air article were merged into World Scout Jamboree and they now redirect here. For the contribution history and old versions of the merged article please see its history.

The contents of the Jamboree on the Internet article were merged into World Scout Jamboree and they now redirect here. For the contribution history and old versions of the merged article please see its history.

The contents of the Jamboree on the Trail article were merged into World Scout Jamboree and they now redirect here. For the contribution history and old versions of the merged article please see its history.

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You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, Wim van Dorst (Talk) 08:54, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] JOTA/JOTI/JOTT

Should we merge these articles? Horus Kol 08:27, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

• Support Yes, good idea: merge into this article. The three articles are either very short or have hardly any surplus information. Perhaps in the future when someone really gets into it, an separate article either one of these topics can be pulled out, if needed. For the time being, the meagre information would well fit into this World Scout Jamboree article. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 21:37, 20 September 2006 (UTC).

I've moved JOTA into the World Scout Jamboree, and have now marked the original Jamboree on the Air article for deletion - Discussion. Will work on the others at next opportunity Horus Kol 09:42, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

• Well done. See above tag to indicate the merger. And the remainders should just be redirects, not deleted. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 21:19, 22 September 2006 (UTC).

Okay, so all the information from the Jamboree on the Air, Jamboree on the Internet, and Jamboree on the Trail is now in the World Scout Jamboree article. I marked JOTA and JOTI for deletion when I had done them - some admin decided to have JOTA redirect to the main article, but a different admin decided not to lost JOTI... would be nice for some consistency, eh? So - my question - what do we do about JOTI and JOTT? Horus Kol 08:45, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

• Easy: if they're deleted: recreate them as redirects. If they're still there: remove all text and make a redirect. You don't need a admin for that: just make redirects (they're cheap). And for full correctness mark on this talk page that you merged those articles into this article. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 18:47, 25 September 2006 (UTC).
  • Okay - thanks... i'm just never sure how far to go... Horus Kol 07:46, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
    • Be bold but not reckless. Have you now included all information from the three separate articles into the one WSJ article? Was there so little info in them? All the more ground to simply include it in this overall article. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 08:35, 26 September 2006 (UTC).
      • bold but not reckless okay... as for the articles - the JOTA and JOTT articles were only a couple of paragraphs, and there is more info in the main one now than there was in there... JOTI was deceptive, as it contained a lot of the general history of Jamborees/World Scout Jamboree/JOTA and only a paragraph that was specifically JOTI - hence my merging of them. Horus Kol 09:16, 26 September 2006 (UTC)