Talk:Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)/Archive 2006 Silver

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Improvement

Since this article has been nominated for improvement, I thought I would make a few suggestions:

• Move much of Eagle Scout rank in the BSA to the lead in. Move the NESA and DESA references here. Done, needs a lot of cleanup.
• A short history. Started section, but no text yet.
• Current requirements: tighten the text, more emphasis on leadership and service.
• Expand service project.
• Include palms (image?). Found it at Eagle Palm!
• Move Interpretation of the badge design to Insignia. Tighten this up
• Similar awards: move the lead in info on Philppinnes and Queens, add GSUSA Gold, Venturing Silver and anything that some folks might consider comparable.

Any other thoughts? --Gadget850 19:01, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

I am considering removing Interpretation of the badge design altogether, as it does not really add anything to the article. If we keep it, it really needs a lot of cleanup. --Gadget850 14:07, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

With no toher discussion, I deleted this section. --Gadget850 19:14, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, I have made some corrections to the History section, based on Terry Grove's excellent work on the Eagle Award. --Emb021 20:06, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

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Arrow of Light and Eagle

The Arrow of Light is Cub Scouting's highest award, and as such is on par with the highest awards/ranks in the other program areas. Hence the ability of Boy Scouts to wear the insignia past the age of 11 and of adults to wear the corresponding knot. Thesquire 08:59, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

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Badge/Medal

Looking at several references (Scout Handbooks, Insignia Control Guides, etc) the cloth patch is consistently referred to as a badge and the pin on emblem is a medal. Also the other rank pages use badge for the patch. --Gadget850 11:16, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

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Eagle Scout Userbox

How about making a Eagle scout userbox? Place it below. Dustimagic 19:35, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

See my user page for an Eagle scout userbox. It also adds you to the category. Rebelguys2 created it. Rlevse 19:45, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

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Eagle Scouts and the U.S. Military

Eagle Scouts who enlist in the US military may receive advanced rank in recognition of their achievements.

Is there anything out there we can cite? I've heard this before, but I haven't been able to find any verfiable sources with a quick Google search. I remember that Rlevse is retired from the U.S. Navy, and he could probably vouch for it, at least. --- Rebelguys2 ^talk 18:07, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

During my Army and Scouting careers, I jhave had Eagles Scout who enlisted at E-2. I changed this to may some time back, because it must be in the enlistment contract: there are other issues that may negate the Eagle.

• Air Force: [1]
• Marines: [2] (PDF)

--Gadget850 ( Ed) 20:15, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

The wonders of Google :-) Rather hard to pick it out though, but that's become a bit of a speciality of mine. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 01:25, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

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Revert War on Eagle Percentage

Stop the revert war on the percentage of BSA Scouts who make Eagle. As Gadget850 has provided an official BSA cite for it, this is settled. Not to mention the people who keep changing it to 2% don't even have the integrity to get an account and sign their name. Any further reverts from 4% will be reported as vandalism. Rlevse 22:37, 12 February 2006 (UTC), Scouting Project and Portal coordinator.

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Returning of Eagle Scout Award

Anyone think something should be included about people returning their Eagle Awards to BSA HQ in response to BSA v. Dale or the atheist Scout being kicked out? Worldtravller 20:50, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

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Merge of Eagle Palms

Propose merge from Eagle Palms. The article is short, and can certainly be tightened up enough for s section in the Eagle Scout article. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 16:24, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

OK: I will do this in the next day or so. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 14:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

done --Gadget850 ( Ed) 20:43, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

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Badge Symbolism

I'm just too tired to look this up right now, but this looks like it was taken from one of the ceromonies. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 14:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I cut this as it seemed to be ripped from some of the ceremony stuff. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 20:44, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

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Eagle Award Kit

It might be good to show the award kit given to an eagle scout (ie. mothers pin, award, mentor pin, father pin, and i think there was something else in there. also, a picture of the eagle certificate would be nice. the two problems with that are that first of all we need to decide whose to use, and second of all, do we blur out the name. i'm fine with using mine but i'm afraid people will take it as me trying to gloat or something. any takers?--preschooler@heart my talk - contribs 06:21, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

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name

What's the purpose of the word "rank" in the title? The rank is called "Eagle Scout", not "Eagle Scout rank". -- Dan | talk 23:20, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Originally, there were separate articles for each rank. After combining the other articles, rank got left in the Eagle Scout article. It's been moved now. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 17:29, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

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GA to FA

• Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America) was made a Good Article. Rlevse thinks it has FA potential.
• Rebelguys2 doesn't think it's a very well-written article at all, but it is well cited. These were some of his other comments:
  • The main problem is that the text is extremely choppy.
  • There's really not that much content in there; we should expand the article so that it's comprehensive
    • expand the history
    • perhaps add more data about how to obtain the rank
    • add a section about the Eagle Scout rank and how it relates to how it's perceived by the public, in pop culture, in history, etc.)
    • rewrite it so it's not just a long list.

What then do we need to do next? --evrik 21:11, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

• Actually, I agree with Rebelguys2...it has the potential, but it needs work first. Rlevse 21:16, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
  • The next step is to work on one of Rebelguys2's suggestions one at a time. Rlevse 21:17, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
    • The grammar and choppiness of this article are easy to fix. I think the main problem will still be comprehensiveness...I recommend sending this article to Wikipedia:Peer review soon, to get new sets of non-Scouting-affilitated eyes give some suggestions of what's missing to the general reader. -- Rebelguys2 ^talk 17:53, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Great idea. Let's plan on that by the end of the week. Rlevse 20:36, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

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Evolution of the Eagle Scout Badge

It appears that much of this section (prior to my last edits) is copied from Dr Murray's The Eagle Badge page. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 17:20, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

The section from "The types and years of the badges are" are and a footnote crediting the website as such (#15). Perhaps each type should also be credited. Any summarization or re-write of the information would have a look of outright plagiarism. So the question becomes...

• Should the article include information on the changes in the patch?
• If so, do we continue using the work and crediting Dr. Murray or do we move try to re-phrase and summarize his work with the four other sites that describe the patch through the years?
• If not, does this section stand alone without the describing the changes and rely on the scans?

I have also written to Dr. Murray requesting permission to use several scans of his Eagle Medals for this article and will ask his assistance to update this article.--dep369 17:41, 22 May 2006 (UTC)Dep369

• I think if we credit him (which we already did), that would suffice for crediting purposes. If we get permission for the medals, that'd be great. I like the way Gadget850 left the wording as of this moment. Rlevse 17:50, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

• We still have to fix the text. Before I started to fiddle with it, most of it was copied directly, and I only made a few changes. Please look at WP:CP and WP:NPS. There is more room for improvement in this section. I'm still wiped out from 4 days of Wood Badge staff, so I'm going to let it lay for now (I was just making too many typos). --Gadget850 ( Ed) 18:19, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

• Hot tub! After reflection (and a long soak), the text of this section MUST be deleted and replaced with text that is not in violation. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 23:02, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

• I put a line with a ref to a footnote. However, I am not sure this is the best way to do this. Perhaps we should just put it in the reference section OR if we get his permission, it be okay to use. I think it'd be hard to rewrite what he wrote and do justice to the badge variations. Rlevse 01:49, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

• I took a stab at it- let me know what you think. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 13:46, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

• • I like it. Rlevse 13:57, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I think this closes this issue. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 14:26, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Improvements

Lead-in:

• Needs a bit more polish. Wimvandorst worked this

• "only Boy Scout rank held for life." This is nagging me. If someone slapped a cite tag on it, I couldn't answer for it. reworded to worn on adult uniform and added uniform manual ref

History:

• When did Eagle go from a merit badge to a rank? added
• When did the badge move from the sash to the pocket?

• Badge introduced in 1924. added
• Palms in 1927. added
• Square knot in 1947. added

Insignia

• Polish

Evolution

• Re-write to clean up copyvio issues.
• Fold beginning paragraphs into the types.
• Move wear on sash to history.
• The Type 1 shown does not have a Good Turn knot, contrary to the text. However, [[3]] does show a T1 with knot. figured it out

--Gadget850 ( Ed) 20:18, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

• Section name: How about History of the Eagle Scout badge. This would match other Scouting article titles.
  • Then what about badge vs rank? Rlevse 18:46, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Could the wide badges picture be done differently, e.g., two rows of four badges? Then it'll fit much better on the average screen. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 21:29, 22 May 2006 (UTC).

Copyright issues

If you spent anytime reading the pages by Dr. Murray you would soon see 1. No Copyright on the text, only the scans by a third party. 2. The front page of the Eagle Badge states "It is my intention to bring you a little history about early scout badges. This is research by me and others who have spent a great deal of time learning about and categorizing these early scout badges. It is my hope that what you learn from these pages, you will pass on to others for the greater enjoyment of scouting. I welcome any questions, so please feel free to e-mail me." It encourages others to "spread the word". Dr Murray has been contacted and I will let everyone know of his thoughts on this matter.--dep369 02:16, 23 May 2006 (UTC)Dep369

Regarding the Type 1 image. If you read the text, it states that the first patches issued for the World Jamboree contingent was the only one of the TYPE 1 Patches to have the "Good Turn" knot. Hence all other Type 1 patches would not have the knot. If you look at the scans om Dr. Murray's site, you will notice this also. I did not include a scan of every subtype, but tried to keep it simple. Aside from the few badges issued to the Jamboree contingent, everyone else was awarded the patch that is shown. Maybe it's time for everyone to read everything before jumping to conclusions.--dep369 02:31, 23 May 2006 (UTC)Dep369

Issue resolved --Gadget850 ( Ed) 10:57, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

ebay

We made it to ebay! Take a look at items 7768944704 and 7769471125! --Gadget850 ( Ed) 14:45, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Improvements (2)

• The lead-in got chopped and needs work. did minor work
• The "everday life" section needs work, starting with the title. combined with lead
  • did some tweaking myself- much better --Gadget850 ( Ed) 13:27, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
• Needs a reference to Eagle Scouts in pop culture, perhaps drawing from Scouting in popular culture made direct link in See also section
  • good --Gadget850 ( Ed) 13:27, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
• Photos: Eagle ceremony; presentation kit
• History of medals to match the badge history this can come at a later time--Ed; done, didn't see your comment, need photos with approval, which I asked for--Rlevse

--Gadget850 ( Ed) 12:38, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

• I've been thinking that the badge and medal history really pulls the focus away from the subject proper. Perhaps this should be split to History of Eagle Scout insignia. Thoughts? --Gadget850 ( Ed) 13:53, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Some of the Eagle Insignia only mentioned here: hat pin, ribbon, knot, father's pin, mother's pin, mentor pin, lapel pin. Then there's a bazillion other bits of memorabilia produced over the years. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 12:54, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

• If so, why don't we set up a new article dedicated to the history of all the rank and postion patches? I have patches for most types and probably can have other contribute to the cause. With that said, should the notable eagle list be merged with this article? It would be nice to name some great American's that received their Eagle badge, like President Ford and Astronaut Neil Armstrong, Baseball Player Hank Aaron, Director Steven Spielberg and Sam Walton of the Wal*Mart fame. Your thoughts.

--dep369 16:32, 27 May 2006 (UTC)Dep369

• • I've been thinking that too Gadget850. I also feel put the notalbe Eagle list would cause the same problem, so it should remain separate. At most, I'd only mention a very few of the most famous Eagles, with a link to the main list, which is too big too merge anyway. Rlevse 18:56, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

• • • I think that we should just leave a link to the list of Eagle Scouts - it's extremely long, which is justification for giving it it's own article. At the same time, mentioning just a handful of Eagles would likely force someone to cry that the article is biased, since we'll be keeping some names and leaving out others. As a side note - the list of Eagle Scouts notes that Hank Aaron is not an Eagle.
    • I really don't mind either way about the history, as I think it really fleshes out this article at the moment and isn't overbearing like a list of notable Eagles would be. At the same time, the order of sections seems a little random, so I'm going to flip the Insignia section with the opportunities section, so that the Insignia section immediately segues into information about the medal and patch.
    • Finally, I've been thinking about pruning the Similar Awards section; in particular, the list of awards in other BSA programs. Is the Arrow of Light really comparable to Eagle Scout? I haven't heard of anyone really thinking that. At the same time, the list is really sparse - I'm sure we could draw a parallel to the highest award in every Scouting organization in the world. -- Rebelguys2 ^talk 19:45, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
      • Considering that Arrow of Light, Eagle Scout, Silver and Quartermaster are the only current youth program knots that adults can wear, then I would consider them to be comparable. I think Wood Badge might not belong here though. I've added every similar non-BSA award that I can find. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 20:19, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

I replaced the image in the table in the lead, Image:BSA eagle.jpg, with Image:Ctf3.jpg, which Rlevse recently uploaded. Revert me if I'm wrong; I'm going from his edits to the table that it's the most recent version. Is Image:BSA eagle.jpg going to be useful as another medal version? -- Rebelguys2 ^talk 19:54, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

• • THe image you replaced would be useful as a medal version if we can figure out which one it is. Rlevse 21:12, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Eagle Scout outside Boy Scouting

At lease half the text is about the Eagle in Scouting. This needs a better name. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 14:59, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Pruning of the lead text

It is my perception that the lead text should define and summarize. The previous text did IMHO do that well. The pruning of the lead text gives me the impression of a downgrading edit without purpose. Would you please explain the edit? Wim van Dorst (Talk) 10:24, 31 May 2006 (UTC).

• You are going to have to define "previous", as there have been a number of edits lately. Statements with "weasle words" were removed. My last edit as of yesterday was to remove the reference to Palms and wear of the medal and badge. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 12:36, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
• I'm writing of the edit that removes the reference to Palsm and to the wear of the medal and badge. The version before that was of my own hand. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 20:35, 1 June 2006 (UTC).
• Ah: so many changes in the last week.

• Aha, Ed I see your point. As Rlevse points out, this article is mostly about the rank or award of Eagle Scout (with the requirements and insignia that come with it, and much less about the boy or person Eagle Scout. It would make an interesting section, though, probably just before 'After becoming an Eagle Scout', indicating what makes a boy to stand out and why he does the things you must do for becoming an Eagle Scout. Tricky, though, as that would definitely incur a lot of weasle words and very difficult NPOV discussion. Personally, I feel that this encyclopedic article must just stick to the hard facts, and the palms (it redirects here) and other insignia are a significant part of that. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 07:19, 2 June 2006 (UTC).
• Thus my use of <opinion>. I have a number of other opinons on Eagle Scout, but they don't belong here. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 13:00, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

• Added the badge and medal: thoughts? --Gadget850 ( Ed) 13:12, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I like it. I still think 1-2 sentences more would be good, but again, I'm having trouble coming up with something good.Rlevse 13:17, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Better, but not there yet. I'll give it another try. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 19:55, 3 June 2006 (UTC).

So, I redid it the opening text. My intention is as follows:

• First a defining sentence: rank as well as boy
• Then putting the picture in the US society: since 1911 over 1.5M Eagle Scouts. This whole paragraph is about the Scout, and not the badge and medal, which I'm intending to be facilitating Ed's opinion (I agree with him)
• Following a new paragraph about requirements and insignia, including Palms (they're defined in this article so must be in)

How about that? This is IMHO a balanced intro-text, so I would appreciate further changes to be supported by a good explanation here. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 20:15, 3 June 2006 (UTC).

I reworded the first sentence again, to even better summarize and define. The title of the article is Eagle Scout, and therefore I followed the line of Ed's opinion further to explicitly word the phrase about the Boy Scout and not the the rank. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 21:49, 4 June 2006 (UTC).

Medal Photos

A Scouting buddy of mine here in my local area has a full set of Eagle medals I can scan and use to complete our medal graphics--just as the patch graphics are complete. My suggestion is that when I complete that (expect 1 week or less), and assuming we're not working any major article issues, that we take this article off peer review and submit for FAC. Rlevse 13:33, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

• Cool! Any more thoughts on splitting this off? --Gadget850 ( Ed) 14:56, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

• BTW: I broke down and ordered the Terry Grove book from Amazon. Should have it in a few days. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 15:55, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

I see that the medals picture collection is complete. That is good, but the variety between them is very minimal: to an untrained eye they are effectively nearly all exactly the same, unlike the badges where even an ordinary interested reader can spot the obvious changes. Although it is worthwhile to have a complete collection somewhere, could a smaller number of pictures be considered for this article, e.g., one per producer? Perhaps a medal dedicated article could give all the pictures and details? Wim van Dorst (Talk) 21:04, 8 June 2006 (UTC).

And on a more technical note: the 9-pic wide table is too wide to fit even on my full screen browser window, inducing unwanted horizontal scrolling. And normally I don't even use full screen windows, and/or use a well readable (larger than standard MSIE I guess) fonts, so that even the 8-pic wide table of badges is too wide. That was the reason I split the badges table into two: if they do not fit next to eachother the browser will display the above eachother. I would think we'll have to give the picture presentations of medals and badges some serious thought. Please comment. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 21:04, 8 June 2006 (UTC).

I just received the Grove book from an Amazon seller. At 182 pages, I've just skimmed through this, but the mass of information and detail is astounding. Per the preface, this is the last version- the next volume will cover from 2000 on; so if you want one, make sure it's the 20th Century Edition. I'll have to do a mini-review later. The Amazon feedback page is probably a good place for that. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 23:56, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Dutch link is solved here. But the overwide picture tables are still there... Wim van Dorst (Talk) 22:18, 13 June 2006 (UTC).

• I think that's it for major stuff except we need to decide what to do with the images in the medal and patch section. I'd like to at least figure out how to get the label and image lined up. Wim suggested groups of four for lower resolutions, but if they float, it'll misalign on higher resolutions. Rlevse 22:53, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Yep, I vote for working on the layout of medals and patches and then going for FAC. Wim's idea of groups of 4 patches and 1 image per medal company may be the way to go. Seventeen medal images can be a bit overwhelming. I also feel the those sections don't warrant a separate article. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO USE MY SANDBOX for layout experiments. I've copied the sections there. Rlevse 23:49, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
• I got the lines in the tables straight. I'm ok with putting it for FAC now if the other users are. If there is some other bit of info you'd like in the article, please add it soon. Rlevse 13:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• • How would it look if you split the tables by manufacturer?
  • I have to agree with a comment made earlier: these look very similar; especially when compared to the badge section. This is not intended for the serious collector, so would it be better to show only samples with major differences? Perhaps a collage or blowup with major changes.

--Gadget850 ( Ed) 16:32, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• • • There are 5 manufacturers, so there'd be 5 images, all in one row. To make the narrative match the images, a rewrite would be required. Then what would we do with the 12 unused images? I think the badge section is just fine. It's only the medals we need to tweak. Rlevse 16:39, 14 June 2006 (UTC)...Going this route, the sample Foley and Clust medals are almost identical, the final group could go to 4. Rlevse 16:43, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I know it hurts, but I did it: I simply reduced the medals table to just the one for each producer (five makes it stand out from the two foursomes for the badges. I retained the producers' names to make the distinction, and I just took a nice looking one from the producers with several, albeit I intentionally took CFJ3 as it being the really current one. And it think the article FAC-ready now too. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 19:07, 14 June 2006 (UTC).

• I want to try to center the tables for medal and badge. Gadget is working on an alternate write up for the medals too....later on...got them centered using html blank tables. Waiting on possible write up change. Rlevse 22:08, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I wondered if you were still watching my sandbox :-). What do you think? I believe Murray's site is based on an older version of the Grove book, thus I going with Grove on some details. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 22:18, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
    • I like it. I think if you make the CTF section like the rest of it, it will be fine. Rlevse 22:52, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Hey- I had to do some work today! I kept getting interrupted this afternoon, so I took it to the sandbox. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 23:20, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Done. Guys- have at it! --Gadget850 ( Ed) 00:11, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• The new prose, non-list version is a very good improvement. That's for keeping. The centering of the tables doesn't come out optimally, though, so that needs further tweaking. Personally, I prefer left alignment, and notably the combined badges box Rlevse made yesterday or so, but is seems to have been changed for table centering again? Wim van Dorst (Talk) 07:16, 15 June 2006 (UTC).
• Thanks. As a list it was good, but it just didn't work as prose. I'm going to work the badge section as well. Since these are major re-writes, I'm doing them in my sandbox then moving them over. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 13:04, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

done --Gadget850 ( Ed) 13:43, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Notable or cruft?

• The 4th Eagle was a 31 year-old scoutmaster, followed by four of his Scouts.
• BSA quietly dropped the signature of the President of the US from 1999 to 2002 on Eagle certificates.

--Gadget850 ( Ed) 13:40, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

They dropped the signature after Eagle Scouts complained they didn't want Bill Clinton's signature on their certificates because of the Monica thing.

Check this news article out:http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=13204

Also from this site (http://members.aol.com/coffeeweb/LO/faq16.htm) I found this to be interesting:

The Medal and badge legally, are the property of the Boy Scouts of America and the BSA, through a local Council, can ask for those items back at any time. Have they? Only in extreme cases dealing with a massive child abuse or other unusual reasons. In most cases, if the Badge belongs to you, you may do whatever it is you would like with it. --dep369 14:08, 13 June 2006 (UTC)--dep369 13:52, 13 June 2006 (UTC)Dep369--dep369 14:08, 13 June 2006 (UTC)Dep369

• • EAGLE ADULTS-BSA passed a rule change in 1952 to end adults becoming Eagles, but many councils kept allowing it anyway, so in 1965 they put in the troop job requirement, putting an end to troop scouts becoming Eagles. Until 1971 or so, Explorers could get Eagle until they were 21. Then the adult Eagle saga was over for once and for all. Rlevse 02:10, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• The Grove book has a section on the history of the wallet cards and the certificates. It notes that the signature was quietly dropped. It speculates that this was in response to the Clinton issues, and the rumour that Eagle Scouts were returning their certificates to National. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 14:19, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I guess that wasn't a rumour.

• The fourth Eagle Scout was Sidney Clapp of West Shokan, NY. Clapp, a 31 year-old scoutmaster was followed by four of the Scouts from his troop. The Eagle Scout badge issued to Clapp was a Foley with a "double drop ribbon"- the ribbon was folded through the scroll and dropped behind and below the eagle pendant and was cut in a swallowtail. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 00:12, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Patch/badge/emblem

Patch is a generic term. Per the Language of Scouting:

BSA documents are consistent: ranks are badges. Other patches such as leadership are emblems. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 13:26, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Without BSA

Should the Robbins medal without the BSA be included to show an example of one? A row under the medal could state with BSA and without BSA.--dep369 12:10, 15 June 2006 (UTC)Dep369

• Done. Good idea.Rlevse 15:31, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Medal layout

I switched the Stange to a Stange 5 as we have a nicer pic of that one. I also moved to images to the left as Wim mentioned, but I really do not like them floated left/right unless the text is beside them. I do like centered without text. I am okay with either way. I also added a single pic of one without BSA on it per Dep369, putting it separate as it seemed to make the group pic too big, leaving little side room for text and causing problems with low resolution monitors. Rlevse 15:31, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• I like it. Can we fix that stray sentence that ends up under the badge images? I've fiddled with it a bit and don't see how to do that. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 17:22, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Do you mean the text lines under the medal and badge images that look like they should be left-aligned? Not that I know of as the images have white space borders around them. I may be able to shrink the border a bit though. Rlevse 17:27, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• The last half of the sentence "switching to cotton in 1940." was rather orphaned. I moved some text: what do you think? --Gadget850 ( Ed) 17:47, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
  • That must be your browser or screen resolution. It looks fine on my work and home computers.Rlevse 20:40, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Left-aligned, with text at the right, all loose end wrapped up: I'd say it is done. This is really nice, and we should let it mature for a couple of days, so that it can be considered a stable article (requirement for FA). And then put it up on the WP:FAC. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 18:49, 15 June 2006 (UTC).

• • • Agreed. I'll Rebelguys2 to look again. Rlevse 20:40, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Gadget: on my screen the badge "orphan fix" looks worse as there's 1.5 sentences above the badge image now. Rlevse 23:01, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Floated it right. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 00:54, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Actually, I think it looks better floated left because as for the other images, 4 are on the right and 1 on the left, so floating this one left gives the article more balance. Rlevse 01:32, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Tweaking Language

I don't think this paragraph is accurate.

I don't have an alternative. --evrik 13:38, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but the BSA awards, with the exception of Quartermaster are not necessarily considered equal. --evrik 19:53, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• I've made some small changes that make me happier with that section of the article. -evrik 18:18, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

• Just a thought... the Eagle Scout award is made by the National Court of Honor of the Boy Scouts of America. In this way it is unlike any of the other "highest awards," except for Quartermaster which, I believe is still awarded by the NCOH. The NCOH also awards the Medals for Lifesaving / Meritourious action and the Silver Buffalo / Antelope / Eagle. Should the article mention the National Court of Honor as the awarding auhtority of the BSA? --Jdurbach 18:09, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I like the idea. --evrik 16:57, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Include wallet card image?

Would it help any to include an image of any of the generations of wallet cards? --JohnDBuell 01:35, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Main page

Assuming this makes FA, I plan to ask it be on the main page on Aug 21, 2006, the 94th anniversary of the first Eagle Scout, Arthur Rose Eldred. Rlevse 15:40, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Great idea! --Gadget850 ( Ed) 15:44, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• According to his wikipage, his birthday is 16th August. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 16:36, 20 June 2006 (UTC).
• 21st is the date of his Eagle BOR date, which is why I thought of that date. The BOR date is one's official eagle date. Rlevse 16:39, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I had seen that: I was just kidding. You're very focussed, aren't you? :-) Wim van Dorst (Talk) 20:37, 20 June 2006 (UTC).
    • Yes, most people would call me anal-compulsive, extremely organized/efficient/punctual, and someone who gets things done on time. In other words, I'm a balance to all the touchy-feely, unorganized procrastinators and lateniks. Rlevse 21:21, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Version 0.5 Nominations

In the case of FA, we should also list it for V0.5 and then V1.0 when that goes live. I don't think History of merit badges (Boy Scouts of America) would qualify because I think most people wouldn't consider the MB article "significant", but Eagle Scout would certainly be.Rlevse 13:07, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I readded it, per that big debate on talk, let another user review it like Titoxd. Thanks Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 21:45, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I feel that this article is lacking some very important information. Whoever wrote this needs to include the percentige of boys who actually obtain the rank of Eagle. (I believe the figure is about 2%) Next, the author needs to include more about the enormous undertaking and difficulties of becoming an Eagle Scout. As an Eagle Scout(silver palm), I don't think this article reflects on what it truely means to be an Eagle.

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military?

Somewhere, I have heard that the military officially recognizes Eagle Scouts by allowing them to enlist with an advanced pay grade, i.e., E-2 or E-3 instead of plain recruit. Or maybe it is just the army. Any clues? --Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.150.59.208 (talk o contribs)

Yes. It is in the "After becoming an Eagle Scout" section, with references 24 and 25. Took me quite a while to find those. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 17:12, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the most an Eagle Scout can enlist into the Marine Corps as is E-2. Which is the same as those with two years of High School ROTC, and a few other things. I've never heard of anyone enlisting as E-3, I don't think its actually possible in the Marine Corps. Gelston 08:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Missing Requirement

People have completed all previous requirements for being an egal scout and been outed later on or have admitted to not recognizing a god and been stripped or denied egal scout rank. I think that egal scout is a great acheivement but in fairness to the groups thta are defacto excluded even if they meet all the other laudable requirements it should at least be acknowledged. --Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.125.106.82 (talk o contribs) 18:33 22 September 2006

As best I can tell from this, you believe that some Scouts have had their Eagle Scout denied or removed for some reason. As far as I know, no one who has actually earned Eagle Scout has ever had it removed. BSA policy is that once a badge, rank or award is earned, it is never questioned. I am also not aware that anyone has been denied Eagle Scout per se, though several have been denied membership in the BSA for various reasons. While denying membership does effectively deny Eagle Scout, it is a rather different issue, and it is covered in depth in Boy Scouts of America membership controversies. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 19:15, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

benefits?

Howdy, I would like to see a small paragraph about the benefits of completing the Eagle award. Besides college, military, and career, what kind of discounts are there? The only one i know of is car insurance... --Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.132.133.60 (talk o contribs)

Car insurance? What company offers a discount? I would think that its going to vary by company. At one point, we had a list of various scholarships, but pared it down to the NESA administered scholorship[s and a note that there are more. If this is true, I would suggest you add a sentence stating that some companies may offer discounts. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 02:44, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Not sure

I'm not sure why or how, but when you enter this page without being logged in, it has something on the page about maralyn monroe created the eagle scout badge. I'm not sure how to get it off or move it to another section. its on the very bottom below the references.All4One 00:48, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Note: Next time we get featured on the main page, lets get the article protected. This is going to be a mess to clean up. I feel like leaving it alone till tomorrow evening and then reverting the whole mess. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 03:09, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Controversy

Would it behoove this article to point out that the award though ostensibly for life can be and has been rescinded in cases of homosexual or atheist scouts? i guess the controversy is not pertinent to the eagle scout rank as such but rather to the BSA as a whole still it is a subject which has received some news in recent years and might be worth mentioning in some context. --Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.229.27 (talk o contribs)

[New topics go at the bottom of the page- just click on the + beside Edit this page to start a new topic. Please sign you edits.] BSA policy is that awards are never rescinded. This has come up before- if you have a reference, please share it. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 04:59, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

It is a lie to say that Eagle Scout is held for life. But if I try to edit to correct this with a neutral point of view, making no statements about whether this policy is "good" or "bad", it promptly gets edited out. --Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.214.156.48 (talk o contribs)

Again, do you have a reference for this? A newspaper article, a web site, anything? If you have nothing beyond innuendo, then any such statement will be removed. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 23:50, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

• Rlevse is right, two of my brothers are Eagle Scouts, my third brother is doing his Eagle Project right now, and my mother is on a Eagle Scout Review Board (they verified that the Eagle Scout Candidates do everything they're supposed to satisfaction); and I can definitely tell you that it is held for life. Is verficiation needed for this? My brothers have all the printed materials at home, and I can add them as citations for the article. With Regards Zidel333 04:19, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
  • If you've got something that says "Eagle is held for life" or such, by all means. A web based ref is even better. If it's a brochure or something, it could be scanned and put into wikisource. Rlevse 10:56, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Notable Eagle Scouts

What are your thoughts on mentioning a few examples of notable Eagle Scouts in this article? I was thinking after the sentence "As such, they are disproportionately represented in the military, service academy graduates, major professions, business and politics" in the "After becoming an Eagle Scout" section? I think something like, "Many prominent American politicians, including several presidents (such as Gerald Ford), members of the U.S. military--including numerous Apollo astronauts, academics, and business leaders are or were Eagle Scouts" would give better context for the statement. As it is now, the statement feels kind of weaselish. Feel free to hack up my sentence, too; it's just an example, and it sounds kind of unwieldy, but my brain isn't working at full power right now.

Also, can someone find a reference for the number of Distinguished Eagle Scout Award recipients? I tried searching around on the BSA and NESA sites, and a little Google-fu, but I couldn't seem to turn up any numbers. --Slowking Man 09:34, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup

When this is all done, I'm going to use the 16:46, 10 November 2006 version as a baseline and do a diff. I've seen a few good changes and I don't want to lose them amidst the sea of edits. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 13:51, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Reef Knot?

Why is the square knot refered to as a reef knot with the two images, but as square knot in the text. These patches are always refered to as square knots in BSA literature, never as reef knots. I didn't want to change them until I found out why. --Emb021 17:09, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Someone just changed it today, but only in the images. US and BSA useage is square knot. Revert if you want, but I'm not getting heated up over it right now. I figure we will have to go through this after the main page changes. I asked a couple of the editors who looked like they were making worthy contributions to hold off a bit. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 17:20, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

• My last edit tried to fix it. --evrik ^(talk) 18:51, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok. There was another image using the term and I changed it there also. I was more concerned that they may have been some upper level Scouting Project decision and it get into somekind of 'fight' if I fixed it. --Emb021 14 November 2006

BSA usage is square knot, especially for the insignia. Somebody got term happy. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 12:09, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Should this be added?

• "Eagle Scout Service Project in Africa". Retrieved 2006-11-14. 

--evrik ^(talk) 19:12, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

It is good, but I'm don't believe it would add anything. Perhaps a list of notable Eagle projects? :-) --Gadget850 ( Ed) 21:37, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Palm colors

After the first three Palms are awarded, additional Palms are obtained by combining the colors such as "Bronze/Gold". These are very rare awards http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eagle_Scout_%28Boy_Scouts_of_America%29&diff=87811161&oldid=87811012 --evrik ^(talk) 19:14, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

HUH? What is the basis for this? Once a scout has earn a Bronze, Gold, and Silver Palm, they then get another Bronze and the cycle continues. I have idea what you mean by "Bronze/Gold". --Emb021 14 November 2006

the thing is I've never heard this phrasing of "Silver/Gold", etc. People say they have XX palms if they have more then 3 (ie have a Silver). --Emb021 14 November 2006

Total number

"Up to the end of 2005, 1,835,410 Scouts had earned the rank." I just got this statistic from the NESA office. --evrik ^(talk) 19:22, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

While 1,835,410 is technically correct, 1.8 million makes more of an impact and sticks in the mind better. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 23:40, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Eagle Palms

There used to be a separate article about Eagle Palms, but I see its now gone and "Eagle Palms" points to this article. That's fine, but now there is no info as to what Eagle Palms are, etc. I think that a new section should be created containing the information in the old article. --Emb021 21:23, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I was just thinking that we need a paragraph on this. How about we wait until this goes off the main page and the edit-slide ceases? It is hard to be constructive at this point. Here is the old page for Eagle Palms. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 21:29, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

• I'll make a temporary fix. --evrik ^(talk) 21:37, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I really didn't mean to imply that Eagle Palms should be unmerged, but that the info should be merged into this article. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 21:46, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I added a section on Palms. Any issue with re-redirecting the old Palms article? --Gadget850 ( Ed) 14:36, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

• OK here too. What about doing some sort of {{db-histmerge}} and having the page deleted? --evrik ^(talk) 16:48, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

It looks like there is a lot of vandalism on the page (probably due to it being a feature article). Should the page be 'frozen' to prevent this? --Emb021 21:25, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

See the discussion above under "Not sure". The page was protected for a short period. We have a few more hours of this, then we can pick it back up. There have been a few good edits, and I asked a few editors who looked like they had something worthwile to hold off a bit. It looks like it has spilled over to the related articles as well. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 21:32, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Looking at the history, there were 294 edits on the 13th and 14th. Out of these, I consider only a bare handful to be useful. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 17:06, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Similar awards

I'm thinking of splitting this into something like List of highest awards in Scouting or some such. I've never been real happy with this section and it is continually tweaked. I think it worked better when it was a list, but the list format didn't survive the FAC. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 20:36, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

• why not. --evrik ^(talk) 20:56, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

I get it now. The only problem is that the similars awards section gets edited fairly often- using a template will make it more complicated for editors. Something to think about though. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 11:35, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I sandboxed a list at User:Gadget850/Sandbox4 --Gadget850 ( Ed) 19:45, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

It really should be "Scouting and Guiding". I was waiting until we resolved the WOSM/WAGGS issue. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 03:07, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Someone noticed

http://markyork.blogspot.com/2006/11/eagle-scouts.html --evrik ^(talk) 21:25, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Eagle Scout Statistics

I made a revision to the to the After becoming an Eagle[[5]] section pertaining to the percent of Boy Scouts who attain Eagle, This revision was reverted soon after, to make clear my reasoning i will explain myself, by gathering two numbers from wikipedia on overall members found on Boy Scouts of America, which states there have been OVER one hundred million members, then the number of Eagle Scouts to have attained the rank, 1,835,410, using a calculator 1,835,410 divided by 100,000,000 equals .018 which is almost 2 percent not almost 5 pecent, I understand the citation of scouting.org says "...only about 5 percent of all Boy Scouts do so. This represents more than 1.7 million Boy Scouts who have earned the rank since 1912." but we must understand that the person who wrote this may have been "rounding" up or simply guessing at a percent instead of statistcally finding the correct amount. I feel that this should be voted on and a decision should be made otherwise the statistics contradict themselves. Please reply to this subject with your feelings on it.--Joebengo 02:01, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

You are presuming that this number is over the life of the program. If you consider that 49,895 Eagle Scouts were awarded in 2005 out of 879,789 Boy Scouts + 63,637 Varsity Scouts then it works out to 5.3%.[6] I recall the number was stated as 4% years ago. I think giving a percentage for the life of the BSA is misleading as the requirements have beeen changed over the years and the signifigance has changed from a super merit badge to a rank. There were less than a hundred Eagles in the first ten years- that is a big skew. I do think we need to clarify this. How about:

"In 2005, 5% of the Boy Scouting membership were awarded Eagle Scout."

--Gadget850 ( Ed) 02:51, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

That does sound a lot better but it doesnt seem like the right fix for the problem permanently, would it be better to consider adding an additional section about the statistics of eagle scouts?

--Joebengo 01:37, December 25 2006 (UTC)

Just make it what it is, a whole para isn't needed, just one sentence that says something like "While the percentage of Scouts making Eagle Scout each year has been as low as 2%, in 2005 it was 5%." Sumoeagle179 12:43, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually, the lowest was in 1911 at 0%. We just had this discussion over at Scouter.com [7]- some claimed it was as high as 20%, but a lot of that was "gut feeling" numbers. I did some searching then, but there are no real sources. Let me know if you find anything. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 13:05, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

So what is the consensus here? "While the percentage of Scouts making Eagle Scout each year has been as low as 0%, in 2005 it was 5%.", or should we just put "Over the history of the Boy Scouts of America only about 2% have attained the rank of Eagle"?--Joebengo 04:54, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

--Gadget850 ( Ed) 14:37, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Done. We had numbers in three different sections. I simplified the lead-in and moved the others to history. I think this is now more clear. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 16:30, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

"Eagle Scouts are expected to set an example for other Scouts and to become the leaders in life that they have demonstrated themselves to be in Scouting. As such, they are disproportionately represented in the military, service academy graduates, major professions, business and politics."

This statement is not at all supported by the citation. The citation only mentions statistics about people who were "Scouts" not specifically those who reached the rank of Eagle Scout. Since "Scouts" are undefined in the source we are left to assume they are claiming that anyone who spent a single day in the "Scouts" is to be considered a "Scout" and thus they statistics are biased. However, this is incidental. The main issue is that the stats don't relate to Eagle Scouts at all. So, the citation is a prejudiced source and it does not cite a neutral source for the statistics it claims. The two sentences about disproportional representation in "major professions" (whatever those are) are unsupported and the tone does not seem at all neutral. Since it is not supported by the citation or any real world statistics, I suggest it be removed completely unless a neutral source can back it up. --Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.14.94.250 (talk) 07:47, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

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