Talk:Exploring (Learning for Life)

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[edit] Name

Currently the article title is Exploring (Boy Scouts of America), but Exploring is under Learning for Life, not BSA. Should we:

1. Change it to Exploring (Learning for Life) and change the catgory from BSA to LFL
2. Leave it be
3. Split it into two articles, pre- and post-LFL

1 is my recommendation. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 04:57, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

3 is my recommendation, more or less -- Exploring was around long before LFL and has many aspects besides what is now part of LFL (Air Scouts, Sea Scouts, pre-Venturing Exlorers, career posts, etc). I'm not sure what you mean by LFL category--we don't have one that I see and how many articles would go into such a cat? We could make an Exploring cat and put all such articles in it. If we have a LFL cat, what would it encompass besides Exploring and an LFL article? The modern Venturing program is nothing other than a re-named Exploring program (part of the mass confusion of all this) as many pre-Venturing Explorer Posts were high-adventure oriented. In short, I think LFL should mention Exploring as a summary, but the large Explorering article split off from there. Rlevse 12:28, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

PS We still don't even have a LFL article. It's been on our todo list since the beginning. Rlevse 12:29, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes. I've been looking at this off and on. We should create at least a stub. It does beg the question: should LFL be under the BSA cat?

I'd say yes because LFL is a BSA program (national), but not part of the pack/troop/crew/team realm. Rlevse 14:16, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I propose that the name of the article be changed to Learning for Life. Exploring and the school based programs can then be made sections of that article.[1] --Jagz 16:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I have some questions before I know how I feel about this. Does "Exploring" still exist as an entity within BSA? I cannot tell from the article. Are posts still extant? If so, are they for Exploring or Learning for Life or both? Is Learning for Life part of BSA? It seems so, from what I read, but I am uncertain. Unschool 16:36, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, there are still explorer posts, mostly career oriented ones.Rlevse 16:45, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

2. OPPOSE change - Exploring has enough tenure and size to stand alone as a subject area. New Wikipedia users would have a more difficult time finding the subject area.Patchbook 01:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Logo

Since Exploring is not a traditional membership program, it does not use use any Scouting emblems. The "Big E" with the Scout universal emblem is the logo used prior to 1998; current logos use the same emblems, but without the Scout logo. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 10:07, 18 June 2007 (UTC)