Talk:Eurovision Song Contest 2019/Archive 2

Ticket prices
Is there anyone who could mention the high ticket prices for this year’s contest? 217.123.76.65 (talk) 17:00, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
 * That doesn't strike me as much of an incident, rather than an inconvenience. LexPro4 (talk) 19:31, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
 * If it's going to be added, I think more needs to be said. "Remarkably" leaves a lot open to interpretation. Do any of the 5+ given sources have any metrics? 20% higher? 30%? What's the typical increase from year to year? Grk1011 (talk) 23:57, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
 * By no stretch of the imagination do ticket prices belong on this page as an incident. The cheapest tickets are around €30 Euros more expensive than in Stockholm 2016, and the most expensive are in line with the prices of premium tickets from other years. Hespen (talk) 01:08, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I never said anything about it being an incident. If it's going to be included, it should probably be in a paragraph somewhere in the "location" section of the article. Grk1011 (talk) 17:03, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Against – Not an incident. Whether the ticket prices are expensive or not is based on the financial situation of each person. —Dimsar01 Talk ⌚→ 01:12, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Added another source that explains the higher costs, and compares it with previous contests. There’s no denying anymore, even KAN spoke about it. 「Robster1983」 ☞ Life's short, talk fast ☜ 10:49, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * As I wrote in your talk page there's something called WP:NOTEVERYTHING. Nobody said that the prices of the tickets are lower. It's just not encyclopedic. —Dimsar01 Talk ⌚→ 10:55, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * In favour  – Sources are added, with several of them comparing the prices with other contests. The Times of Israel named it “likely the most expensive ever for Eurovision”. Also, I have found two extra sources, that are talking about the temporary stop on the sale of tickets because of ‘irregularities’ in the scaling prices, confirmed by KAN.
 * Sources about social media ‘outrage’:    (in Dutch) (in Dutch)
 * Sources explaining the high ticket prices:
 * Sources about the irregularities in the ticket sale: (in Dutch)
 * So yes, this ís an incident. I’ve given many, mány sources that backs this up. 「Robster1983」 ☞ Life's short, talk fast ☜ 12:52, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Against – The issue is not that there is a lack of sources – there's obviously enough to verify that it's a real thing. Nobody is "denying" anything. However, expensive tickets is not an incident as it does not disrupt or hinder the organisation of the contest. The only thing that could potentially be considered an incident is the temporary closure of the ticket sales due to "irregularities", however this is very minor and does not affect the organisation of the contest itself. LexPro4 (talk) 16:29, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Against it is not an incident more of a inconvenience. Sammyham84 17:16, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

My thoughts on this whole situation about the ticket prices is this falls more in line with criticism versus an incident. Some of the sources like this provide a good talking point where prices for this year are compared to the 2018 contest and how this year is 17 times more expensive than last year. Instead of placing this in the Incidents section maybe a new section titled Criticism would be more appropriate or slotting this into an existing section where it wouldn't be out of place. Another solution would be to rename the Incidents section to Incidents and criticism then inserting the ticket pricing issue. With the amount of press this has generated it would not be a good idea to completely omit this from the article. This is also a good source which mentions the high prices this year is likely a combination of things such as the high cost of living in Israel and funding issues for the event between the broadcaster and the government. Now this article about where sales were frozen due to scalping concerns is an incident. I don't remember an issue like this happening in recent years.   Alucard 16  ❯❯❯ chat?    17:37, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * That’s my point exactly: it should be mentioned in the article, I don’t care where. I am impressed by your ideas and fully support them. What do other people reckon? 「Robster1983」 ☞ Life's short, talk fast ☜ 18:00, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

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It's time to use the talk page to reach some consensus over the ticket issue. Continuing to do this on the page itself is purely disruptive at this point. All other edits can be done through edit requests. Samsara 11:20, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * The updates are too many for edit requests. Anyway, me and Robster1983 have agreed that the tickets issue must be checked by another user or be 'decided' by a consensus. Not going to continue edit-warring. —Dimsar01 Talk ⌚→ 11:29, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I will change the protection level back as requested, on the understanding that you will each desist per the above. Take this also as a formal warning that non-compliance will most likely be treated as a blockable offence. Regards, Samsara 11:39, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Samsara, I’m fine with that, but is there going to be some sort of mediation? Because the issue that caused the edit war has not been resolved yet. 「Robster1983」 ☞ Life's short, talk fast ☜ 12:04, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Alright, let me see if I can succeed in making a helpful suggestion before anybody reaches for more formal processes of conflict resolution, of which there is a whole basketful on WP. Try as best you can to follow a reasonable balance of published sources. Usually, if several reliable sources highlight a potentially unfavourable aspect of an event, it would then be considered more eligible for conclusion in an article. I would furthermore suggest that giving the above discussion the appearance of being closed was unhelpful to the potential for resolving this issue. Would you perhaps remove that "done" tag and let the discussion continue, ? It seems that at this point, that's the most likely avenue for getting a convincing consensus. Thank you. Samsara 12:13, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Changed to "Against" as to continue as a consensus. —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 12:18, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I’ve given every source I have found on this topic (see above). Also, I’ve found sources that are talking about a temporary stop on ticket sales because of irregularities. Shouldn’t that be enough to add this in the article? I mean: I don’t know what more people could want, I’ve literally given multiple sources. What would you suggest? Kind regards, 「Robster1983」 <font color="Purple">☞ Life's short, talk fast ☜ 12:58, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure where the whole issue about ticket prices started but in my more detailed rationale above based on the press this has generated this should be included in the article. The general aim for every article should be getting them to WP:GA and WP:FA status and these articles need to have all relevant, notable information (good or bad) included to provide the reader with the most comprehensive view of the subject. Omitting the criticism about the ticket pricing would harm the article with the amount of press it has generated. There is also the issue where sales were temporarily suspended due to scalping and I don't remember this happening in recent years. That would qualify as an incident.   Alucard 16  ❯❯❯ chat?    17:46, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree with few general sentences inclusion, based on the news it apparently garnered over the net - by the arguments above; and from seeing the amount of daily news in Israel the past 3-weeks about the tickets and pricing (stemming from non governmental support and relatively small sized hall+3000 seats - almost half - reserved for EBU, reporters and delegations guests), and extreme scalping phenomena, both in Israel and other worldwide sails-websites. In addition, I also think (as "Alucard 16") its the first time in the contest that big amount of tickets (about 270 Prime-Seats) were cancelled and frozen. However - that's due to their premature sales to industry people instead of exposing them to the wide public against regulations (or at least wide Israeli public), something which raised investigation - which will be further developed and talked about - along with mutual accusations between "Lean" tickets-office and Israeli broadcaster "Kan"; though, internationally-wise, this is kept internal-affair. From what was recently reported, the EBU won't get involved in this issue. I still think a sentence or two about this should be included as well. אומנות (talk) 22:04, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Small self-correction/accuration, as said above apparently frozen per law enforcement against scalping, but also frozen for future re-sale of those prime seats (those like you see with the tax-suits people sitting right in front of the stage as in the old good 1960s-1980s contests, where most of the venue was basically close front of stage seats). אומנות (talk) 22:18, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

I think I found the right note to this all. I hope everyone agrees. 「Robster1983」 <font color="Purple">☞ Life's short, talk fast ☜ 16:19, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * for me its well put and summed-up. Just one thing, as its few sentences revolving similar issues, I can suggest putting all your contribution under "Tickets"/"Ticket sales" title, instead splitting under 2 more specific little sections. My thoughts, but overall looks great. אומנות (talk) 17:48, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Other users did that already, and it looks brilliant, IMHO. I just thanked them. 「Robster1983」 <font color="Purple">☞ Life's short, talk fast ☜ 18:23, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Yea - just posting something more after edit conflict with you. :)
 * Okay I see another user already edited the material under one title. Just to add: I think it's also better to place the scalping and freeze right under (same paragraph) of costs and high demand (as he just rearranged), since those stemmed from the demand - in turn stemming from the small capacity, which is now mentioned first. Also, anyway the big level 3 title is under shared Criticism+Incidents already. So I hope the article's current arrangement (as well reflecting my view) is okay with others and you Robster1983. אומנות (talk) 18:49, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay, Robster1983, I'm glad you are okay with this as well! אומנות (talk) 18:49, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Can we have prt scn on Wikipedia from the music video?
wish to add this image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCqlGG5l1Lc (11th sec) please answer--Spacejam2 (talk) 22:02, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ❌ It’s against the Manual of Style and not that of a big issue. —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 23:24, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Opening ceremony and the Red Carpet
The opening ceremony and the Red Carpet will be held at Habima Square in front of the Habima Theater. Source --L&#39;Arnq (talk) 05:38, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Calls for boycott due weight
I feel the 'Calls for boycott' section is given undue weight in this article. It is the longest individual prose section in the article, and that is out of proportion with the fact that no boycott occurred, and no broadcaster with the possible exception of RÚV is cited to have given any serious consideration to a boycott.

Every call for boycott has the same BDS motivation regardless of initiating country, and BDS is well documented in its own article, so this easily allows that this section be summarised to omit all of the direct quotes and country-by-country breakdowns and replacing with a selective list of people or groups advocating a boycott. Compare with this article, which summarises the 1970 South African cricket team boycott in this manner without direct quotes from individual supporters of the cause.

The section can also be merged with the 'National selection disruptions' section; this section describes only BDS calls for boycott and therefore covers the same topic as the calls for boycott section.

Suggest those two sections be modified and merged to read:

''Due to the contest being held in Israel, and initially there being the potential for Jerusalem to host, many proponents of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement called on their national broadcasters to boycott the competition. This included members of the Australian Greens party, Sinn Féin, the Irish Alternative, Sweden's Left Party and many entertainers including 1994 contest winner Charlie McGettigan. No country withdrew from the contest in response to these calls.''

''Several national selections were disrupted by BDS proponents calling for a boycott in the lead-up to the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. This included the second-semi final of France's Destination Eurovision, which was invaded by stage intruders who held up signs advocating a boycott; and the Eurovision Gala of Spain's Operación Triunfo, outside which protesters handed out leaflets calling for a boycott. The European Broadcasting Union later sent special letter to all participating broadcasters advising precautions that they could take to prevent similar disruptions. ''

Aspirex (talk) 09:48, 14 March 2019 (UTC)


 * It's been five days without comment, so I'm going to make the change. Aspirex (talk) 07:44, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
 * We have had this Incidents section in the past ESC articles as well. Plenty of calls for boycott which are notable.BabbaQ (talk) 07:46, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not disputing its inclusion; I'm disputing the length and detail that had been dedicated to the section. Aspirex (talk) 07:57, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Jurij or jurijus???
??? Lior the swimmer (talk) 14:22, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I believe the article is using the spelling that the official website is using. Maybe the EN Wiki article could be updated to include this spelling similar to how last year for Yuliya Samoylova the Eurovision article used the spelling "Julia Samoylova" but the main EN Wiki article includes the alternate spelling in the lead.   Alucard 16  ❯❯❯ chat?    17:13, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

How should the Lithuanian artist be referred: his stage name or full name? Seems initially was the former, but seems to have changed? Clarification? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.83.80.227 (talk) 15:54, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Section about Polish music video
Is this a really important incident or just a complaint from the user? I don’t see any references from major Eurovision websites. By the way, the user tries to add a Google-Translated section of the article to many other editions of Wikipedia going against their Manual of Style (as it’s bad-written) like he wants to get the world’s attention to the matter. —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 23:27, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
 * In general a matter of censorship is notable if backed up by reliable sources. They don't have to be dedicated Eurovision websites to be notable just reliable. In this case with the four sources provided it seems to be an issue in Poland but so far the issue doesn't seem to be impacting outside of Poland. Based on this I don't think it should be listed under the "Incidents and criticism" section for the main Eurovision Song Contest article but should be moved to Pali się for sure and possibly at Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. The main article should have contest specific issues listed or very notable issues like Ukraine's late withdrawal that was extensively covered.   Alucard 16  ❯❯❯ chat?    05:52, 14 March 2019 (UTC)


 * It is huge issue in Poland. Try to Google those two words "Tulia krzyż". Hundreds of articles about it. Even President of the Polish Television called to change the video to the version with the Cross. On the internet fan-pages calls for withdrawal due to censorship.--Spacejam2 (talk) 11:52, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I have to agree with both User:Dimsar01 and User:Alucard 16. I tried to find international and/or English-language sources talking about this, but I could only find this one:, which does not strike me as an objective source. @User:Spacejam02, could you find additional, international and/or English-language, sources? That would really help. :-)
 * I also agree with User:Alucard 16, that it should at least be mentioned in the article of the song. @Spacejam02: You could really help WP with that. You already seem to know so much about this, so you might be a tremendous asset concerning that article!
 * However, I’m willing to let it stay in this article for now, to see how things play out. This might be picked up by international media, or maybe English-language Polish websites discuss the matter. So removing it right away feels, for me at least, as censorship from our part. 「Robster1983」 <font color="Purple">☞ Life's short, talk fast ☜ 12:49, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

I'd say move this to the Pali się article. This is not a Eurovision scandal, and no one outside of Poland is talking about it. <b style="color: #AB2B2B;">{ [ ( jjj</b> <b style="color: #000000;">1238 ) ] }</b> 17:08, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I’ve added a template, just so we can dive into this matter and keep discussing it. In my opinion, we should, for now, wait and see how things play out, i.e. will it be picked up by international media? I mean: a blazing fire starts with a small flame. So maybe we should give it at least a week, just to see how things are evolving.
 * Also, I’d like to thank User:Spacejam02 for attributing to the article of Pali się, but I also hope that he/she can find international and/or English-language sources that could help/back-up his attributions to this article. 「Robster1983」 <font color="Purple">☞ Life's short, talk fast ☜ 18:11, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree with Jjj1238. This is an issue about the video for this particular song, not something that affects the entire contest. If anything, its inclusion in such a prominent section gives it undue weight. <span style="font-family:Courier New, monospace; "> Mr. Gerbear | Talk 10:30, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Dmitry Guberniev has confirmed that he will be commentator for Russia
Sources: https://www.championat.com/other/article-3674327-kubok-mira-po-biatlonu-201819--dmitrij-guberniev-ob-itogah-kenmora.html, his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Btq1bhQBDEQ/?utm_source=ig_embed

This year all shows will be broadcast on Russia-1 Qcumber (talk) 14:05, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

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 * 1) Can you change the name of the Cypriot Broadcasting corporation from Trito Programma to Cybc (his real name)?
 * 2) Can you write French commentators? (https://eurovoix.com/2019/03/21/france-commentating-team-revealed/)
 * 3) Can you write Russian Commentators? (https://www.championat.com/other/article-3674327-kubok-mira-po-biatlonu-201819--dmitrij-guberniev-ob-itogah-kenmora.html)
 * 4) Please can you renounce to the protection of the page

--Michele1999 (talk) 13:20, 21 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi thanks for your questions about the article. I'm gonna to address each concern individually.
 * 1. I'm not sure where "Trito Programma" came from nor have I heard of CyBC being called by that name before. I'm from the United States so someone with more knowledge of the Cypriot broadcaster may want to look at this one.
 * 2. Sure I will add that to the article here in a moment as Eurovoix is usually a reliable source. ✅
 * 3. Same with the Russian commentators this source seems reliable. Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: See note below
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 * I hope this answers your questions.   Alucard 16  ❯❯❯ chat?    13:54, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Trito Programma is the name of CyBC/RIK's third radio station, and since we don't have an article for it someone probably just linked to the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation article. However from translating the provided source can't find any mention of the channel or radio station they are commenting on, so have removed them for now. --  AxG /  ✉  14:03, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure when it was added but it looks like it was added to past articles as well like the 2018 and 2017 articles as well. I haven't checked past the ESC 2017 article yet as I'm in the progress of reviewing the sources for the French and Russian commentators.   Alucard 16  ❯❯❯ chat?    14:10, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Looks like these need to be removed also, absolutely no mention of them in the Eurovoix sources provided. --  AxG /  ✉  14:17, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Edit: The 2016 article is correctly sourced with mentions of the four services the contest was broadcast on included. --  AxG /  ✉  14:21, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for looking into that and fixing it!    Alucard 16  ❯❯❯ chat?    14:31, 21 March 2019 (UTC)


 * In response to adding Dmitry Guberniev as the Russian commentator based on this source and his Instagram post I'm gonna have to decline the request for now. In both instances the sources do not mention the broadcaster for the semi finals and the final. For the first source it briefly mentions his role as commentator for Russia at Eurovision 2019. For the second source I personally try not to use social media unless it is a last possible option. I think in this case it is best to wait until Russia 1 fully announces their plans as they might announce a co-commentator with Dmitry like they did in Stockholm in 2016.   Alucard 16  ❯❯❯ chat?    14:31, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * The link you've provided about 2016 contest is not from Russia 1. It's from Russian news agency Life which had informed about commentators from their own sources. I think that an information from commentator himself (no matter if it has been published in social media) is much more trustworthy than information from news agency linked to anonymous sources (as it was in 2016).
 * What about broadcast, Russia 1 has announced it in February: http://russia.tv/article/show/article_id/59013/. We still don't know about co-commentator, but at least we have some information to publish. The same story was for Israel last year, when Erez Tal has become known (and published in Wikipedia) quickly while other commentators were published after shows.Qcumber (talk) 15:42, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Thanks for the link I've updated the article.    Alucard 16  ❯❯❯ chat?    02:25, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Betting odds (new section)
Hey fellow wikipedia users, i was thinking of submitting an edit request for inserting a new section called Betting odds. In this section we will include all participating countries' chances of winning the contest from the last day of the deadline for the countries to submit their songs until the Grand Final. (possible source eurovisionworld.com because betting odds from numerous betting sites are displayed). We can also make a graph with each country's progress until the Grand Final although i believe it's going to be very messy because including 41 countries in one graph might be illegible. I think about creating a table. What do you think of that? Engelleip96 (talk) 15:29, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'd like to know more on whether this is supported by WP:Manual of Style, but it's very sketchy and I can't find any info at all. But I'd say oppose for the time being and maybe ask at Help desk, personally I feel adding betting odds will produce numerous edits to the page and incorrect odds at times, whilst this adds negatives in linking people to sites which encourage gambling which depending on country is age restricted. --  AxG /  ✉  16:06, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * AxG i have already read the WP:Manual of Style and the WP:Manual of Style/Content but there is nothing relevant to your abovementioned indication.The aim of the proposed section is just to inform the public about the general opinion of each Eurovision act and it does not advertise in any way any betting site or promotes gambling to the public.(underage or not) In any case betting odds can be excluded and we can just write each country's current position according to betting sites.Also there is a precedent in Wikipedia for writing the chances of an individual/country/political party/social issue winning a competition/election/referendum.In numerous election pages there is a section of Opinion polls with a clear indication of the polling website/company and the exact winning possebilities of a candidate/political party.Engelleip96 (talk) 10:37, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * No, it's false information which may lead to some people thinking the country first in the odds has already won. Plus it's against WP:CRYSTAL. —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 22:58, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Broadcasting in Ukraine
Source about broadcasting in Ukraine (see Active EBU members) can be found here: https://www.slovoidilo.ua/2019/02/28/novyna/suspilstvo/alasaniya-rozpoviv-chy-pokazhut-yevrobachennya-2019-ukrayini — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qcumber (talk • contribs) 15:25, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ With another reference though (in English). —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 23:05, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Daniel Galindo will be the commentator for the Spanish "Radio Nacional de España"
The shows will be broadcasted live in RNE 1, RNE 5 and RNE Exterior.

Source: https://www.escplus.es/radio-nacional-de-espana-retransmitira-en-directo-el-festival-de-eurovision-2019/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.78.76.155 (talk) 13:49, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 19:44, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Croatia song 99% in croatian.
I asked the youtube channel of croatian esc in the video of the making of the offical music video of "the dream" and they said that the song will singing in croatian and the last sentence will be in english thats mean that 99% of the song in croatian and 1% in english. Lior the swimmer (talk) 13:40, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now:  We will add it if you add a reliable source on this page-Sammyham84 (talk • contribs 20:50, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

OGAE Poll 2019
Can you write the results of 2019 OGAE international poll? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michele1999 (talk • contribs) 15:45, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ❌ So far the only country that has voted is Armenia Sammyham84 (talk • contribs 17:14, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * And when this results will be written in this page? --Michele1999 (talk) 17:37, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * We will add it when the full results are out Sammyham84 (talk • contribs 21:54, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ I was WP:BOLD and put the results into the article. In previous years this section has been added when OGAE has started their poll and updated when a new club has revealed their results. The current consensus is only to list the top five songs from the poll. While the poll is ongoing a disclaimer is usually at the bottom alerting the reader that this is in progress and not all the clubs have posted their results. If there was a change in consensus to wait please revert my change as I was unaware.    Alucard 16  ❯❯❯ chat?    01:29, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * That fine with me Sammyham84 (talk) 02:35, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The table was removed as per WP:CRYSTAL. —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 09:26, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

"Ticket sales controversy"
Someone added "Ticket sales controversy" as its own incident. I can see an argument being made for the second and third of the three paragraphs there being included (if worded better), but the first paragraph should be removed. We've established in previous discussions here that the cheapest tickets being more expensive than in other years does not warrant mention as an incident. Also, someone renamed the "Incidents" section "Incidents and criticism," which has never been done on a Eurovision page before and probably should not be done here. Hespen (talk)
 * See the archived discussions "Ticket prices" and "Full protection" in Talk:Eurovision Song Contest 2019/Archive 2 the current setup was a compromise to an edit dispute.   Alucard 16  ❯❯❯ chat?    06:13, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for sharing. I still don't think this is significant enough to be mentioned as an incident though. Something being mentioned in media sources does not make it important enough to be an incident, and Eurovision media sites make it clear the ticket prices aren't that out of line compared to other years. The most expensive tickets are actually cheaper than in certain other years (Ukraine, for example), and the cheapest ones are 85 Euros, compared to 53 Euros in Stockholm just two years ago. See source here. I don't think the venue size is worth mentioning either. For both of these things, KAN complied with the requirements laid out by the EBU. The only thing that could potentially be worth mentioning here is the issue where 200 tickets had to be recalled. Hespen (talk)
 * Title has been reverted to "Incidents" as the specific section can easily be considered just as an incident. —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 09:31, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Voting announcement changes
Eagle-eyed Eurovision fans like myself have noticed that the EBU has announced that the order of the televote points in the final will be different to the order used in 2016-2018, but only the order of the announcement, not the scoring or apportionment of the points. In the old order announcement, the televote points were announced in reverse order of the number of total televote points for each country (the country who came last in the televote, i.e. receiving the fewest (usually 26th) number of total televotes, have their televote points declared and added to their jury score first, then the second-to-last, and so-on to the country who came first in the televote, who received the highest number of total televotes) regardless of the order of the countries in the jury vote with the total televote points added to the total jury points (the latter at this stage have already been all declared), revealing the total score for each country. In the new order announcement, the total televote points are announced in 'reverse order of the total jury point score, i.e. the order viewers will see on the screen, but not the order of the total televote scores like in the old system, so the first set of total televote points to be declared will the country who received the fewest jury votes'', regardless of where they ranked in the order of total televotes. For example, say Ukraine received the fewest number of total jury points and were last in the jury vote, they would be shown at the bottom of the scoreboard, because the jury vote is announced before the televote is announced, they would have their total televote points announced first, regardless of the order the total televotes. For example, in this scenario, if Ukraine had placed 16th in the televote, they would have their total televotes announced and added the their total jury vote first (i.e. 26th) because the announcement of the total televote scores is the order of the jury votes, not the order of televote.' The actual awarding, counting, and apportionment of points is exactly the same as the system used since 2016, the only change is that the total televote points are declared'' in the order set out by the order which the juries ranked the countries, not the order that the country attained in the total televote. This means that the final ranking of the countries won’t be known until every set of televotes has been declared and combined with the jury vote. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.252.228.237 (talk) 19:38, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ❌ No such thing announced by the EBU. —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 19:43, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ I quickly added it into the article with three reliable English sources. The changes was quietly made by the EBU as it was an unannounced over at  on March 30, 2019.    Alucard 16  ❯❯❯ chat?    00:49, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Since they added it on eurovision.tv, there's no problem at all. —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 09:32, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Edit Request
Please change On 14 March 2019, tickets went back on sale. According to KAN, 220 improperly-purchased tickets to the Final live show were revoked and will be available again on the second round of ticket sales.[131] to On 14 March 2019, tickets went back on sale. According to KAN, 220 improperly-purchased tickets to the Final live show were revoked and were bought in the second round of ticket sales.[131] IsraeliIdan (talk) 15:31, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 09:45, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Source of Madonna as interval act
Madonna has been confirmed as interval act for the Eurovision 2019, but I think KAN/IPBC (official broadcaster of this year's Eurovision) is a more trusted source than the Jerusalem Post. They gave the official news here: https://www.kan.org.il/item/?itemId=50122 --87.21.70.241 (talk) 16:16, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * ❌ It would be indeed a better source, but it's in Hebrew and English sources are preferred for obvious reasons. —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 18:11, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Language does not make a source any less usable. ViperSnake151   Talk  18:11, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Of course, but English ones are preferred in the English WP for obvious reasons. —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 09:46, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Edit Request: Russian spokesperson changed & co-commentator announced
Dmitriy Guberniev mentioned yesterday on air of live talk-show on Russia 1 that he will commentate Eurovision Song Contest along with Olga Shelest: https://russia.tv/article/show/article_id/66113/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=946&v=x2j8qBYcJ2Y

Also there is new information about spokesperson. Russia 1 officially announced today that Eurovision Young Musicians 2018 winner Ivan Bessonov will be the spokesperson: https://russia.tv/article/show/article_id/66134/ (Provided previously information about Alsou was originally from rumors on one of Russian websites and at least haven't been officially confirmed by Russia 1, there are also rumors that they changed decision, see this article. Anyway, we have official information from the broadcaster that Ivan Bessonov will be the spokesperson.) Qcumber (talk) 12:10, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

✅ Sammyham84 (talk) 01:27, 2 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Also can you add a source for Olga Shelest other than YouTube because YouTube can not be a source  Sammyham84 (talk) 21:51, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Commentators and spokespersons
New Russian spokesperson is Ivan Bessonov. http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3143509 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nktkrdd (talk • contribs) 13:03, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 21:52, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Romanian spokesperson
The Romanian spokesperson of 2019 is Ilinca, who represented Romania in 2017 together with Alex Florea: https://eurovoix.com/2019/05/03/romania-ilinca-eurovision-2019-spokesperson/

Jim V V (talk) 15:04, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 23:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

Finnish commentators
Someone should add the radio commentators and the swedish commentators Encyclopediafanatic (talk) 09:16, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
 * What names should we add (+mention the source)? —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 19:13, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Eva Frantz and johan lindroos do the swedish commentary

Sanna Pirkkalainen andToni Laaksonen are the commentators of the semi-finals for yle Radio Suomi And final iscommentated by sanna pirkkalainen and sami sykkö

And the source is eurovoix.com


 * I can not find the source on eurovoix so can you put the link please Sammyham84 (talk) 03:10, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

✅ Sammyham84 (talk) 03:30, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

German broadcast
Please add, if possible, the following broadcasts on German television: One (all shows) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_(German_TV_channel) Deutsche Welle (final) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle

The shows all have the commentary of Peter Urban, just like the final on Das Erste. SpengeBob (talk) 15:12, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Source? —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 19:14, 7 May 2019 (UTC)


 * https://www.eurovision.de/news/Sendetermine-im-TV-und-Livestreams-zum-ESC-2019,fernsehtermine112.html

Here's it. Sorry, I added a reply directly after I posted the post above, but it somehow didn't send. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SpengeBob (talk • contribs) 15:12, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 13:55, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations map
Hi everyone, I've created a map for Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest but can't seem to incorporate it into the main infobox. Could another user possibly do this? I've tried to add Blue to the template map colours (infobox song contest). Also for the Greatest Hits map, the legend key for red now has "Red2" and "RedNQ" displayed on the page (used for ABU Radio Song Festival 2012, 2016). Thanks, Fort esc (talk) 18:19, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
 * 1. Why to add this map here? 2. There's no blue option. —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 14:56, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I've added the Congratulations map for the same reasons why the Greatest Hits map was created. Can't blue be added to the template as an option? Fort esc (talk) 16:06, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 07:50, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for sorting out the template. Fort esc (talk) 16:53, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

No problem :) —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 17:05, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Belgian broadcaster
According to Belgian newspaper 'Het Laatste Nieuws', the Flemish broadcaster Één decided to broadcast only the first semi-final. The second semi-final has moved to Ketnet, a children's channel, due to a political programme: https://www.hln.be/showbizz/tv/tweede-halve-finale-van-het-songfestival-verhuist-naar-ketnet~a293f863/

Jim V V (talk) 23:37, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 17:06, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Ukraine: Timur Miroshnychenko confirmed as UA:PBC commentator, Serhiy Prytula - as STB commentator
Source 1 Source 2Qcumber (talk) 17:42, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ LexPro4 (talk) 18:03, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Belarus: Evgeny Perlin confirmed as commentator
Info from TVR — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qcumber (talk • contribs) 19:32, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ LexPro4 (talk) 19:56, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Commentators of Israel and Estonia
Israel. Sharon Taicher and Eran Zarachowicz will commentate all shows KAN11. Source (I asked a person who speaks Hebrew and she confirmed that I got translation right).

Estonia. I can't find now exactly if Marko Reikop will be back to commentary box as Estonian commentator, But it's confirmed that Aleksandr Hobotov and Julia Kalenda will once again commentate this show in Russian on ETV+. Qcumber (talk) 22:31, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 13:15, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

North Macedonian commentators
North Macedonia – Toni Cifrovski - Тони Цифровски (MRT 1, MRT 2, Macedonian radio, all shows) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.162.73.158 (talk) 15:24, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ❌ - Please provide a reliable source. --  AxG /  ✉  14:37, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Icelandic spokesperson
Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson https://www.ruv.is/frett/johannes-haukur-kynnir-stigin-i-eurovision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3hannes_Haukur_J%C3%B3hannesson — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.160.177.217 (talk) 01:09, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 10:39, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Danish entry language update
The Danish entry is currently listed as being in English & French. It is actually in English, French, Danish & German.[]

Petoabys (talk) 21:36, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✔️: It's written in the footnote (a little [f]) because these two languages are used in less than a verse each. —<b style="color: #18b26f;">Dimsar01</b> <b style="color: #282aaf;">Talk</b> ⌚→ 21:40, 16 May 2019 (UTC)