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The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted 00:00, 16 July 2007.

Brownsea Island Scout camp[edit]

We've put a lot of work into improving this lately and feel it is ready for a FAC run. Brownsea Island was the site of the first camping trip by Robert Baden-Powell in August 1907. This camping trip ignited the worldwide Scouting movement.Rlevse 14:56, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support Especially relevant with the upcoming centenarry. --evrik (talk) 19:12, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support The article has been greatly improved in recent months, it definately worthy of FA status. LordHarris 00:50, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Lead should be longer. The Placebo Effect 03:47, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thanks for the recommendation. We edited the lead to be more in line with the body text, and provide more information. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 21:01, 9 July 2007 (UTC).[reply]
  • Oppose: The image Image:Scouting 2007uniform.jpg is a fair use, copyrighted image. It's use here in this article is decorative. It's use is acceptable on Scouting 2007 Centenary, but not here. --Durin 21:06, 9 July 2007 (UTC) Update: Image has been removed. Opposition removed. --Durin 12:55, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • It illustrates the section in question.Rlevse 21:32, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • You're opposing because of one image at the bottom of the article? --BigΔT 04:12, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • I am not opposing now. Anyways, featured articles need to have images that are either free or acceptable fair use images. That is one of the requirements at WP:WIAFA. Any editor can object to the article becoming FA over image licensing issues. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 04:36, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment There is obvious disagreement on what "acceptable fair use is". NOTE however: from an example at Wikipedia:Non-free content "A sports card image is a legitimate fair use if it is used only to illustrate an article (or article section) on the card itself;", which is what this image does (or now did), it illustrates the section of the article it was in, which was on the subject of the image.Rlevse 10:06, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment BigDT and Rlevse are correct. This is perfectly acceptable Fair Use. The image illustrated a section that was on the subject of the image, which is allowed per Wikipedia:Non-free content.Sumoeagle179 10:15, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support well done.Sumoeagle179 10:15, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support page was updated to make the image use acceptable. I would encourage the users here to also look at http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=scouting+centenary&l=commderiv&ss=2&ct=0 and other images on Google. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 18:23, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, but those are tagged "some rights reserved".Rlevse 19:15, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You're free to email the creators for permission, if some events are still going on, you can take pictures of that. The one I linked should be under the Creative Commons license. Anyways, good article. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 19:45, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support As significant contributor to the article, let me express that this is a topclass article now, well balanced in text and illustration, and covering the subject well. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 23:16, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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