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The Scout Association was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
August 21, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
June 25, 2008	Good article reassessment	Kept
February 13, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted
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Current status: Delisted good article

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GA Reassessment[edit]

The Scout Association[edit]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch • Watch article reassessment page • GAN review not found

Result: Large-scale WP:RECENTISM issues, along with violations of GA criterion 2. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:55, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The article hasn't been maintained to GA standards and requires a bit of work to get back:

There are 8 cn tags
The history is slanted towards recent events (summary style)
Some WP:overcitation
Neutrality concerns in recent history
Unclear sentences (clarification needed). Femke (alt) (talk) 09:38, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.