Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-20061173-20150825133855/@comment-4091815-20150828142117

But it is recognized as a pack by werewolves familiar with werewolf packs.

In truth, we've never seen an "actual werewolf pack" for very long on screen meaning we don't really know how it would look or work. Derek had his group together for a couple of weeks before it fell apart.

We saw Satomi with the remnants of her pack, but that didn't give us very much information as to actual pack membership.

Scott's pack has been the primary example provided by the show and is therefore, canonically, just as "actual" as any other pack.