Talk:Gilwell Park

Gilwell Park is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on May 4, 2007.

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Date	Process	Result
September 10, 2006	Featured article candidate	Promoted
March 12, 2007	Featured topic candidate	Not promoted
December 19, 2020	Featured article review	Demoted

Current status: Former featured article

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FA status[edit]

Looks like a fair bit of work is needed if this is to retain FA status.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:03, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Demote it now. We will look at it in a few years. -- Gadget850^talk 18:08, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

FA in need of review[edit]

I'm echoing what Dr. Blofeld said way back in 2014: this article needs work to keep the FA status.

Most notably:

Article has several unsourced paragraphs (I'm tagging some in the mean time);
We need smaller page ranges for Peter Roger's book. The book is used 30 times in the article, each time with the range pp. 5–46. That's the whole book, by the way;
"Gilwell Park provides The Scout Association with over £1,000,000 a year through conference fees, accommodation fees, and sales of materials." - The source for that is from 2005, that's 15 years ago. All of the figures provided in the article are a bit dated;
A third of this article reads like an ad for Scout Adventures, complete with accomodation and special events.

Article does not meet the current FA criteria. RetiredDuke (talk) 00:37, 6 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]