Wikipedia:WikiProject Eurovision/News/Issue 42

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Editor's Message
Bienvenue! Willkommen! Welcome!

There have been quite a lot of serious issues raised since our last publication, including repeated violations of core policies; even on biography articles which is unacceptable. Concerns of early-creation of articles and biographies without taking into account of the general notability guidelines have also been brought to our attention, with an active debate taking place on the project talk page. We as editors need to be making sure we follow the Five Pillars as if our lives depended on them. When adding new content to articles, make sure you are providing citations using only reliable sources so that we are ultimately verifying our writings, without breaking the original research rule - and even more vigorously when it comes to Biographies of Living People.

Also maintenance tags have been repeatedly been removed and the required action those tags were in connection to had not been done. Please only remove tags if you've fulfilled the actions. Leaving edit summaries stating that you hate the templates and then do nothing about fixing the issues will not be tolerated. With the number of repeated errors been made in recent weeks, it is lucky that editors have not received blocking sanctions. So consider this the one and only warning - be vigilant - and if in doubt ask for advice from experienced editors.

Regardless of how you contribute, remember to maintain a teamwork atmosphere, it is that which makes us one of the most efficient projects on Wikipedia. An inspirational acronym that some of you may wish to take on board is I DO ACT - Inspirational, Distinctive, Open, Alert, Consistent and part of the Team. Working as part of a team is what makes us become outstanding experienced Wikipedians. And speaking of Wikipedians, encourage potential new members to the project by posting {{subst:EurovisionInvite}} (which will produced this template) on their talk pages.

Happy editing! Wes

Did you know that... the BBC Young Musician of the Year was the inspiration for the inaugural Eurovision Young Musicians contest in 1982?
Headlines
Project News
Article alerts

The following alerts require the attention from as many project members as possible.

Requests for new articles

A request for the creation of quite a long list of new articles has been posted via the Newsdesk. Anyone who wishes to volunteer in creating these new articles may do so. A selection of some from that list are as follows:


Article news

ABU TV Song Festivals Macau 2014

  • The third edition of the annual ABU TV Song Festival takes place later this week. Participants from twelve countries will take part in the non-competitive gala showcase.

Junior Eurovision Song Contest Malta 2014

  • The twelfth edition will see sixteen countries taking part in the Mediterranean island of Malta next month. All representatives and their songs have been selected and presented to the Steering Group.

Türkvizyon Song Contest Kazan 2014

  • The second contest takes place in November. Iran is the latest country to announce their début into the contest.

Intervision Song Contest Sochi 2015

  • There's no latest news regarding this contest.

Eurovision Song Contest Vienna 2015

  • The contest may be a matter of months away, but the national selection season starts in November when Malta and Macedonia choose their representatives for Vienna.

See also

  • If you would like something to appear in the next edition of Eurovision Monthly, then please inform us at the Project Newsdesk.
  • If there is an article you think we should have? Request it here.

Maintenance tasks
The following is a list of some selected ProjectEurovision-related articles that need some extensive improvement work doing them.
Add sources

Clean up

Expand

Merge

Wikify

Orphan

Stubs


Statistics

On 20 October 2014 the proportion of all articles with an assessed project banner was:

100% (estimate: some more article talk pages may still need a banner)

   

The proportion of all articles with known importance is:

100% (estimate: some more articles may still need a banner)

   


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