h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I still feel like you're really overstating LBP's role here.

He started Boy Scouting in the UK, and was involved in its spread to other countries. Someone suggested to him that girls should have a similar organization, he said "Yes, that's a good idea", and handed the project over to the women in his life, who in turn were the ones who took the idea and made it a reality. Past the initial idea stage, LBP's role in Girl Guiding was largely only via his role in Boy Scouting. That really isn't the impression this entry gives at all.

We have loads of people who have said, "Gee, wouldn't it be cool to have a time machine" -- but the credit for the creation of such a machine would go to the person who actually did the work and brought it to reality, not to the people who proposed the idea.

I think it's also important to clarify whether you're talking about Guiding in general (which is how the entry currently reads), or whether you're just talking about UK guiding (which is how it sounds in your post above).

it's about uk guiding


I think I'll forget it then I don't know enough about scouting to write this

while I'm here, how do you see the guideml code that has been used on a page?

Provided you're working in GuideML, when you're in 'Edit' mode you will see the codes e.g yadda, yadda, yadda AROUND YOUR WORK.

no I meant how do I see the code on someone elses page

Ah, as I recall there is a function called 'testuserpage'. You type these words immediately before the 'A' number at the top of the page, then press 'Enter'.

(However, I think I've remembered this inaccurately because the last couple of times I've tried it, it wouldn't work).

I wanted it to update the Rainbow page thats out of date also

I may as well do that since this isn't going anywhere

Here you are:

"If you see a user page that you really like, and would like to see the tags, you just change the link like this:

This is Kristina's user page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/U151707

To see the GuideML tags, exchange the "U" with "testuserpage", like this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/testuserpage151707

You can do this with any user page, and if it is an entry (with an A instead of U before the number) you just exchange "A" with "test". "

"I wanted it to update the Rainbow page thats out of date also"

Don't forget to drop Sue (original author) a line to her PS to ask her if she minds you doimng this - indeed, she might want to help.

The testuserpage is only for looking at the GuideML on someone's personal space. If you want to see the GuideML for an entry, you just replace the "A" with "test" -- for example,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/test4517048


Mikey

thanks mikey I did do that

Like I said before, just because you know nothing about B-P's role in Scouting, doesn't mean you can't research it and write about it. The fun of writing entries is that you learn things, so get out there, do the research, and stick this entry back in PR! I hardly knew anything about Olave B-P before I started writing my entry, but within 5 minutes of searching the web I had enough for the beginnings of an entry.

Here are some links to get you started:

http://www.pinetreeweb.com/B-P.htm
http://users.aol.com/randywoo/bsahis/b-p.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell
http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/library/history/

Mizzpinky has removed this Entry from PR, which I think is a shame, it was going really well.

Emmily

simpost

To be honest I can't be bothered with the hastle that is peer review

That's a real shame

Terrible

I'm sure all the scouts will be weeping over their at the thought of not having to deal with me *giggles*