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Entry: Lord Baden-Powell's Role in The Girl Guide Movement (UK) - A4517048
Author: Mizzpinky (The Fortuneswells are gone but not forgotten) - U858042

*drops it back into peer review and hides*

Well I only briefly skimmed the first Peer Review thread before it got nasty..

And I have to say the result of it is actually a pretty good entry! It's nicely structured and easy to read.

I am assuming from the fact that you've put it back into Peer Review that you now want it to be considered for the Edited Guide?

look I didn't mind all the help I've been given


I withdrew it because I don't intend to do an entry on scouting as I know nothing about it

I'm sorry about all the trouble in the last PR thread

Unfortunately I think a lot of the comments were valid. I just read through again, and it seems like you've got some paragraphs of B-P's biography, and some about the history of Girlguiding UK, and they don't link together very well You need to emphasise B-P's role in each of the events mentioned, I think.

what do you mean?

Well, I think it all links together pretty well. The content is mainly there, but it is skeletal and needs fleshing out.

Some Q's wqhich sprang to mind when I was reading, which you would do well to address are:

Who were the 'people working with boys'?

What were the circumstances/purpose behind setting up the first camp ?(as this seems to have been before the Scouts were officially set up)

Who first organised the girls who were calling themnselves Girl Scouts? Where did they meet? How often?

Who organised the first girls rally?


Who were the 'famous corps of guides in India?

What were the (sociological?) circumstances behind people travelling abroad more?

How much did the Rollsa Royce cost?

When did B-P become Lord B-P. wHY?

"Guiding is still as big as it ever was". Approx how many people belong to the GG's?


So that the biographical details of B-P sit comfortably, perhaps the title should be 'B-P and his role in the formation of the Guide Movement'.

I'm not sure how much the rools royce cost, I wondered about that but I can't find the info anywhere

oh and I have explained that he did the camp to test out some of his ideas for his book on scouting for boys

I'm afraid I can't find anything on the Girls scouts either, other than the fact that they met with Baden-Powell at crystal palace asking to be part of the boy scout movement.

I'm not sure about the lord bit can't find anything on it. is that the same thing as being a baron because I know he's a first baron.


Not to sure why people started going abroad either
otherwise I've explained what I can

This link says that 'girls just turned up at the first Boy Scouts rally', which is an interesting commentary in itself.

http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/xq/asp/sID.141/qx/new/press/article.asp

There also appears to be extra snippets on this site which you could perhaps incorporate:

http://www.wagggsworld.org/about/quiz/history.html

This also has an interesting snippet.

I can't get into the GuidingUK site tonight, butr it does seem to be quite difficult to obtain information. This makes your contribuion even more valuable

http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/library/history/

Agreeing with Cyzaki here, I do think there are places in the entry where it's not clear what the link to LBP is, for example:

In the First World Camp bit, you talk about the camp, and where and when it was held, and then say that the B-Ps had been travelling for 3 years -- is there a connection here that we're supposed to know about? Did they miss the camp because they were traveling? Did they come back from traveling to help with the camp? Or are the two bits completely unrelated?

For Thinking Day, was LBP involved in starting it? Or is it just included because his birthday was chosen as the date? Likewise, for the birth of WAGGGS, what was the role of LBP? It's not clear at all from what's there now how this bit is relevant to the rest of the entry.

is that better?

Maybe you could note that Scouts call Thinking Day 'Founders Day', perhaps in a footnote, just for clarity

"Baden-Powell had started to gather information for a book on army scouting"

What is army scouting?

no idea

I assume when they send scouts out, to "scout the land" as so to speak

Maybe you could find out and put it in the entry?

thats what I'm doing