Talk:Eurovision Song Contest 2019/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 13:22, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Comments

Lead

 * Peculiar sprinkling of refs in the lead, I would move all refs out to the main article, there should be nothing in the lead that isn't in the article and it can be cited there.
 * Five paras in the lead, MOS tops out at four paras.
 * Two "Netherlands" links with different targets, this makes sense to those who know what to expect here but not to all readers.
 * North Macedonia is linked second time.
 * And you have San Marino linked, but not Italy, Russia, Switzerland nor Sweden...
 * " first Top 10 finish" why capital T?
 * Israel is linked similarly to Netherlands, easter egg style.
 * Where are directors in the infobox referenced?
 * "the first - from a professional jury, the second - from " en-dashes, not hyphens.

Location

 * Odd single-sentence para opens this section, and "contest took place" is repeated verbatim in the opening sentence of the next subsection, repetitive.
 * "7,300-seat[6] congress" just move [6] to the end of the sentence and place in order with the other refs, it's not so important that it needs to break up the flow of the prose.
 * "2018, Prime Minister Netanyahu said " no need to repeat his political position.
 * "On 19 June 2018, " merge this with the previous para, and perhaps instead of "On date..." you could have "The following day" or something to mix it up a little.
 * "(IPBC/KAN) " then the next mention uses IPBC and subsequent KAN. Are there separate organisations here, or are you just using the terms interchangeably?  After all, I'm not sure how most readers could associate KAN with " Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation"?
 * "who is closely connected to Prime Minister Netanyahu, ' not relevant.
 * "restating the common talking point that " remove "the common talking point".
 * "pay for the Convention Center" pay for what? And last time this (same?) place was mentioned, it was "International Convention Centre".
 * "a handful of " unnecessary fluff.
 * "scope out" unencyclopedic tone.
 * "to hear the bid from Eilat" first I've heard of it.
 * "about boycotting the event" on what grounds?
 * Haifa not even mentioned apart from the table.
 * Sporadic reference placement across the candidate table.
 * Table missing a caption and row/col scopes, per MOS:ACCESS.
 * "The Eurovision Village was the official Eurovision" probably better to put where it's located before telling us what went on there, since this is the Location section.
 * Same applies to EuroClub.
 * What is IDT?

Format
That takes me to "Participating acts". I'll get onto that once we're through these. Just a warning: I haven't checked references (content, verifiability, reliability, format etc) yet, when we do the next pass from the top. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 15:37, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * "unveiled... unveiled" is repetitive.
 * " in March to April 2019" either "from March to April 2019" or "in March and April 2019".
 * "the act travelling to a" each Eurovision act.
 * "own country[28]. " ref after punctuation.
 * "Play Button" why capitalised?
 * " they did a themed dance" performed rather than "did".
 * "and ended it by throwing..." too many run-ons, split this sentence.
 * "The dances done in the postcard were from a wide range including Parkour, Ballet and Street dance. The following locations were used [29]" -> "The dances in each postcard were wide-ranging and included parkour, ballet and street dance. The following locations were used:[29]"
 * "Albania-Banias" each entry should be a spaced en-dash, not an unspaced hyphen.
 * See MOS:FLAG here, I can't see any use for these flag icons other than decoration in this list.
 * List is far too long in current form, use div col and div col end to split it appropriately.
 * "greenroom" or "green room"?
 * And link green room first time.
 * "Presenters from left to right: Assi Azar, Bar Refaeli, Lucy Ayoub, and Erez Tal, Tel Aviv, 16 May 2019." no full stop required as it's a fragment.
 * "Assi Azar and Lucy Ayoub " no need to repeat their first names.
 * Footnotes need to be referenced.
 * Semi-final draw table could use col scopes as a minimum.
 * "since the current vote presentation system was" it was the "then-current" which reads poorly. So this needs rework.
 * "previous years the" comma after years.
 * "perform two songs during " and then you go on to mention three.
 * " opening and interval acts." no ref, but if you merge this para with the next I suspect this particular issue goes away.
 * "The second semi-final included Shalva Band with the song "A Million Dreams" and mentalist Lior Suchard." no ref.
 * "The Grand Final i" it's called the Final or final everywhere else?
 * Look just fail it now so it to get over and done with it as we quite clearly see that it's nowhere near GA standard. HawkAussie (talk) 01:10, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Very well. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 07:34, 23 April 2020 (UTC)