Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/European Platform for Sport Innovation


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The result was delete. The walls of text added by the IP obviously don't succeed in convincing the other editors here that the subject is notable. Randykitty (talk) 13:09, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

European Platform for Sport Innovation

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no indication of meeting WP:ORG guidelines. Given references are either primary or not significant coverage. Google searches not finding any significant third party coverage. noq (talk) 18:01, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
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EPSI is a strong reality in Sport environment, both in Brussels and at European level. They are partners of the EU Commission in the European Week of Sport and they are in the same business area - and same dimension - of many other non-for-profit organizations that are already present on Wikipedia

Here just few of the amount of articles foundable on the web about the European Platform for Sport Innovation (all third partiers):

EPSI at Innovation marathon of Italian Football Federation https://www.huffingtonpost.it/entry/lhackathon-figc-un-messaggio-all-italia-e-all-europa_it_5cc1b774e4b0e68bc67bc5d2

EPSI in Turin for “Innovation in Sportswear” https://torino.repubblica.it/young-turin/2018/06/26/news/torino_fashion_week_liceali_in_passerella_tra_moda_e_sport-200081799/?refresh_ce

Article about Europe and Sport, talking about EPSI role in the sport policy http://www.sporteimpianti.it/principale/tsport/rubriche-tsport/opinione/europa-lo-sport/

EPSI Executive Director at Italian Parliament, talking about the importance of including sport in EU Policy http://www.newsbiella.it/2019/03/06/leggi-notizia/argomenti/attualita-1/articolo/inserire-lo-sport-nel-programma-di-lavoro-dellue-convegno-a-roma-presente-anche-roberto-pella.html

EPSI role in Sport Tech District: https://sportup.startupitalia.eu/2019/10/16/sport-tech-district-il-luogo-dove-30-espositori-hanno-mostrato-il-futuro-dello-sport/

Article about European Perspective of Sports https://www.huffingtonpost.it/entry/be-sport-nuove-prospettive-europee-su-sport-e-innovazione_it_5dc6a6a5e4b02bf5794076c5

EPSI role in Inno4Sports project, aimed at creating clusters of regions in sport innovation https://www.tulodz.pl/sport,inne,iii-spotkanie-interesariuszy-projektu-inno4sports,new,mg,5,25.html,3010

Article about EPSI enlargement https://www.ispo.com/en/markets/european-platform-sport-innovation-epsi-new-partners

Interview to Alberto Bichi about House of Sport https://www.ideaconsult.be/en/spotlight/house-of-sports-boosting-synergies-in-the-european-sports-ecosystem

Stefrengo (talk) 10:03, 3 December 2019 (UTC)


 * A few passing mentions, not articles about EPSI. Please see WP:Significant coverage. noq (talk) 13:25, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

The last two of the lists were only about EPSI. Moreover I can add examples of articles regarding directly EPSI, their projects, their partnerships, their events and conferences.

https://www.dalasportsacademy.se/2017/11/24/sv-SE/6th-european-platform-for-sports-innovation-conference-38120095

http://www.cbbs.hr/en/epsi-cbbs-started-co-operation-in-south-eastern-central-europe/

http://www.necstour.eu/epsi-necstour-mou

http://www.ecos-europe.com/sphere/co-innovate-in-sport-2019/

https://varala.fi/varala-sports-institute-joins-the-network-of-european-platform-for-sport-innovation-epsi/

https://www.eyvol.eu/partners/european-platform-for-sport-innovation-epsi

Moreover, EPSI is a network of 65 organizations coming from 19 European Countries. some of these organizations are on Wikipedia too.

91.223.167.193 (talk) 18:51, 3 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Please identify which (if any) amongst the list of announcements by related organisations is independent of EPSI. Who apart from the members are talking about EPSI specifically rather than brief mentions in articles about other things. noq (talk) 16:25, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

A part from Varala (who is a member) and EYVOL (a Project were EPSI is part), all other websites and links attached are not EPSI members or projects, but indipendent and external organizations that are talking about EPSI.

91.223.167.193 (talk) 18:36, 4 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Just clicking and reading some of those links shows that your statement above is not true. The Ecos link is a "page not found", the necstour and cbbs links are announcements of  partnerships, the dala sports academy link is an announcement that someone attended a conference. None are independent coverage of EPSI. noq (talk) 10:27, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

EPSI has created partnership with external organizations (like NECSTOUR and CBBS) that are not part of EPSI, but indipendent and external organizations. Regarding ECOS, you are right, I attach you the right one (http://www.ecos-europe.com/sphere/2019/07/01/sphere-project-in-brussels-for-co-innovate-in-sport-2019/) ECOS is another indipendent organization. Dala sports Academy, it was not about a conference, but a EPSI Conference, so I honestly do not see why you are saying that it is not true, while it is...

EPSI is a relevant organization in the world of sport in Belgium, especially at institutional level. it is partner of the EU Commission for EU week of sport (cited in EU Commission website: https://ec.europa.eu/sport/week-partners_en), as well as other organizations (i.e. FESI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_the_European_Sporting_Goods_Industry) that are already present in Wikipedia. Actually I do not understand the point of this discussion, with check of every link. All of them are from indipendent third parties.91.223.167.193 (talk) 11:22, 5 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Please read Independent sources. Partner organisations are not independent sources of information. Also, WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. noq (talk) 14:07, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

I provided more than 20 external sources and several of them are not EPSI partners... the EU Commission itself cannot be considered an "EPSI dependent" organization. Regarding the other wikipedia page quoted, it was just an example of a similar organization (with no external sources on the page), whose creation did not create any problems. 91.223.167.193 (talk) 17:05, 6 December 2019 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Barkeep49 (talk) 01:35, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails the most basic stnadards of the general notability guideline. Every verifiable source offered appears to fail at least one of the GNG measures.  Many are not significant, e.g., news article that mentions EPSI at the very end in passing but most are, as  indicates, neither independent nor reliable.  This seems to be a normal lobbying/consulting firm going about its run of the mill business.  Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 02:50, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * As mentioned, it is not a simple lobbying firm, but a network of 60 organizations coming from almost every European country. Categorizing it, it can pacifically stay inside “Pan-European trade and professional organizations” like the other page mentioned, that has the same charachteristics as EPSI. EPSI is partner of the EU Commission (http://aceseurope.eu/commission-sport-officials-visited-aces-europe/), in the framework of the European Week of Sport. EPSI is one of the main actors of Sport&EU policies and their HeadQuarter House Of Sport, is contributing to create a common environment to European Sport Organizations. Only referring to “House Of Sport” I can quote https://www.ideaconsult.be/en/spotlight/house-of-sports-boosting-synergies-in-the-european-sports-ecosystem and a paper article “House Of Sport: Hub for Sport Organizations” published on the last number of the magazine “EU Cities of Sport”. EPSI documents and studies are included is several books papers. Among others: “Improve economic and policy knowledge in the field of sport related industries with particular focus on sporting goods sector” (EU Publication foundable even online: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/42a5c3f6-5ca1-11e8-ab41-01aa75ed71a1/language-en); Research Methods for Leisure and Tourism (A. J. Veal); Sports Science Research and Technology Support (Jan Cabri, Pedro Pezarat Correia); Research Methods in Sport Studies and Sport Management: A Practical Guide (A.J. Veal, Simon Darcy). EPSI is main topic of many articles foundable on the web coming from independent sources too. I already mentioned this one by IPSO (independent and reliable, since they are organizers of the biggest Sport Industry Fairs in Europe) about a recent EPSI enlargement: https://www.ispo.com/en/markets/european-platform-sport-innovation-epsi-new-partners
 * I can add for example these too (independent and reliable as well):
 * FranceClusters.fr (french network of business clusters): http://franceclusters.fr/2017/12/11/the-epsi-platform/
 * SportEconomy.it (one of the biggest news sport industry portal in Italy): https://www.sporteconomy.it/sportaffari-epsi-a-supporto-del-sistema-sport-invernali/
 * Cruyff Institute (Sport Business Insitute) who dedicated one article to a recent EPSI Conference held in Barcelona): https://johancruyffinstitute.com/en/latest-news/future-sport-debated-barcelona/
 * Honestly speaking, after more than 10 days of this talk, new sources and link are still foundable, both on paper and in the web in independent sectorial magazines and websites. 91.223.167.193 (talk) 10:14, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * IP user, I urge you to please read the message I left on your user talk page to understand why experienced editors are disagreeing with you. It is neither personal against you nor animosity towards this organization. To address the substance of your reply, however: no; those links, like all those before, are not convincing. Your new links are not significant coverage, being mere acknowledgements of the existence of this organization or a simple conference announcement. I am sorry but this does not help your position. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 15:04, 10 December 2019 (UTC)


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