Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sport in the European Union

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The result of the debate was No consensus. JamesTeterenko 07:18, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sport in the European Union

Sport is organised on a Europe wide basis, not an EU basis, eg European Football Championship, Eurobasket, so this article is misleading. It has a clear agenda of promoting the idea that more European Union control would be a good thing. It is irredeemably point of view. Delete Osomec 06:01, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

• Weak delete based on above points. Rkevins82 08:05, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

• Comment. That's certainly one view, Osomec. I urge caution, however. I can concieve of an acceptable article that spoke of sport within a socio-political polity. It would not necessarily imply that sport within the EU was somehow superior to sport in Europe. As a record of sporting activity that took place within a polity, I see no reason why it should not be allowed. Of course, there should be some broader significance to it; theoretically, one could write an article about "Sport in USA, Mexico and Thailand," but it's difficult to see a case for including such a thing in an encyclopedia. With the EU, however, such difficulties are very much less. I do agree with you that as it stands the article is a thinly veiled political statement, but I feel that for the above reasons the best course of action would be to keep and apply the {{{attention}}} tag; get the involved editors to write a piece that actually does a decent job describing "sport in the EU." If this effort fails, and the article remains as it is, I will vote delete if you bring it back to VfD.—Encephalon | ζ | Σ 09:50:22, 2005-08-10 (UTC)

Many of the articles linked from Life in the European Union itself up for deletion, had a chronic pro-EU bias, which I have done some work on. If this doesn't get deleted, it should at least be moved to a title which reflects the fact that sport does not operate at an EU level in the way it does at national level or in Europe at least at continental level. I have already moved Education in the European Union to Educational policies of the European Union, as the EU does not run the education systems in its member states or operate a single education system. Osomec 15:53, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Not irredeemably POV. Useful topics would include: how do EU rules, customs, and market organization impact sporting events and athletes? How have sporting organizers reacted to the expansion of the EU? etc. Christopher Parham (talk) 14:55, 2005 August 10 (UTC)
  • Well it certainly wasn't the intention of the writers to make a serious impartial appraisal of the EU's minor role in sport. As I mentioned above, the title is irredeemably pov, even if the content could be made neutral, as was placing the article in category:Sports by country, Osomec 15:53, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup. There is the basis of an article here on the EU's sports policy and any intention it may have to expand its role and the response/reaction in other countries. Capitalistroadster 19:14, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - The EU's role in sport is so minor it only deserves a mention not a whole page. The only factual information in this article is copied from the European Union at the 2004 Summer Olympics page. The rest is vague statements like "a variety of sports is practised in the EU" - you don't say! JW 22:08, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Pointless mirror article. / Peter ^Isotalo 09:42, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

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