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Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008

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I've listed this article for peer review because I have recently developed this article considerably, and would like positive and creative feedback in how I can improve it as much as possible, and be able to nominate it for GA review.

Thanks, Sims2aholic8 (Michael) (talk) 18:29, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

• Comment: Hi Michael. First of all, let me say how I appreciate your work on this article, since I'm Portuguese and was really touched by our entry this year and all the reactions to it. Now, about the article, one thing that came out to my eyes immediately was the excessive and thoroughly detailed content concerning the national final. In my opinion, it would be great for an article Festival da Canção 2008, where such level of specificity is justified, but not for this one, where mainly the results are compulsory and a link to the national final article would be enough. I mostly like to do proofreading to find a fix grammar and syntax bugs, so I hope you don't mind if I take a deeper, more careful look into it.

This article was expanded as part of the Eurovision WikiProject's unofficial drive to expand and nominate the 2008 pages for Good Article Status. Most articles contain the national selection in the main article as a way to keep everything together (most aren't this detailed though). To make a separate page would complicate things such as navigational templates and the way we assess articles. The national selection as a whole usually has a page if it has an official name or way that it works year after year, but we generally discourage individual selection pages. All together it just seems more complete. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 05:49, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

A bit off-topic, but... what if someone created per-year articles of a specific national final? Would the Eurovision Project be against it and battle for its closure? If not, would you still keep that level of detailness in the "Country at Eurovision Song Contest Year" pages?

I understand that this type of articles must begin with the national final - where the song was selected - and then proceed to the participation in the international contest, the main topic. But what I find extraneous is the amount of detail concerning the national final in this article (for instance, the contestants' clothing...), while the ESC content itself is not that broad. On a side note, for example, I see that Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 is more of a Melodifestivalen 2008 (which is actually a redirect). Parutakupiu (talk) 14:12, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

It's easier to maintain one page as opposed to two with near identical content. It also doesn't help that some countries' finals have no name so we're trying to be consistent here in the layout of all of them. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 16:12, 9 November 2008 (UTC)