User talk:Zpedisic

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Sport

Thank you for your e-mail - as stated on my talk page, "I will probably reply on your talk page, or the article talk page, as discussions should be open and on the record" - hence this post

No, you have done nothing "wrong" unfortunately, as can be seen at User:AnomieBOT/SPERTable there is a considerable backlog of such requests (91 at the moment - the oldest of which was on 24 March), but your request is listed about 2/3 the way down. In addition to the people who deal with that list, 297 editors have the Sport article on their watchlist, and changes to the talk page will have appeared on their list.

As for your proposal, I am NOT an expert on sport, and your proposal is quite long and involved. I suggest re-wording "The other side of the coin" as it is not encyclopedic.

My main concern, is the "Sports Club for Health (SCforH) initiative" section - this appears to be a minor initiative, with just 588 google-matches, which you are trying to promote by forcing it into this article.
I note that "Pedisic, Zeljko" is one of the authors of Sports Club for Health (SCforH) – updated guidelines for health-enhancing sports activities in a club setting - so you appear to be trying to promote your own report/initiative without declaring that you have a conflict of interest. - Arjayay (talk) 15:25, 19 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Arjayay for pointing out that my contribution would be considered as potential Conflict of Interest (COI) according to Wikipedia policies. I was not familiar with the Wikipedia COI policies before. As you can see, to be transparent and fair, as my wiki username I used the first letter of my name and my full surname. If I had any intention to conceal my involvement in the initiative, I could have been sneaky and used a non-identifiable username, as many other users do. I now deleted the proposed section about the SCforH initiative to avoid potential COI.

In another section of my proposed text I cite two research papers I co-authored. Would that be considered a potential COI according to Wikipedia policies? I could not find any clear Wikipedia policies on this. If that would be interpreted as COI according to Wikipedia policies, I would rather retract my contribution in whole.

The Sports Club for Health (SCforH) initiative is the largest European initiative for health promotion through sports clubs, and one of the largest, if not the largest, initiatives of that kind worldwide. The initiative has been supported by European umbrella sports organisations, such as TAFISA, ISCA, ENGSO, and EFCS, by the European network for the promotion of health-enhancing physical activity - HEPA Europe, and by the European Commission. The Council of the European Union listed the implementation of SCforH guidelines as one of the 23 indicators for evaluation of national physical activity policies in EU member states. The current SCforH project is led by the Finnish Olympic Committee. As Arjayay mentioned the google search for SCforH initiative results in only 588 matches. However, that in no way disputes the continuous recognition of the importance of the SCforH initiative by key sport associations, key public health stakeholders, and the highest-level political structures in Europe. Is there another way I can suggest information about the SCforH initiative to be added on Wikipedia (without that being considered a conflict of interest)? Zpedisic (talk) 00:01, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]