Talk:History of the Eurovision Song Contest

Merge proposal

 * The result was merge into History of the Eurovision Song Contest. --  Chwe ch  23:29, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm proposing that List of Eurovision Song Contest editions be merged into this article. There is no text in that article; all it includes is a table which could be very easily incoporated into this article and would probably be more effective here. My thinking behind this is that if there was a lead added to the list article, it would essentially be the same as the one at this article. Apart from the links coming from Eurovision Years, List of Eurovision Song Contest editions is an orphan article, as far as I can see. Thanks.  Chwe ch  13:33, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I support the merge for the above stated reasons. Grk1011 (talk) 21:51, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Just to clarify - I've basically copied the table from the list of editions to this article, replacing the competition history one here. There is a better list of winners at Eurovision Song Contest winners, so I've added a seealso hatline linking to that. The only other item that is not accounted for is the songwriters, but the consensus from other Eurovision articles seems to be that they are only mentioned in the articles about the songs themselves.  Chwe ch  23:45, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

"Well-known performers"
Unless you can objectively define "well-known performers", that list is POV. --Dweller (talk) 10:03, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

SVT
SVT didn't even exist in 1975. Where did you get this information from? Are you kidding me? This is absolutely not true that SVT hosted Eurovision in 1975. Totally impossible, as Swedish Radio Services was in charge. SVT was introduced several years later as a result to make public service more effective in order to fulfil the new governments wishes. You don't even have a source —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.185.94.252 (talk) 21:54, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Identity
The entry immediately above might be correct over some things; but what is 'SVT'? Your first sentence might be better if it was written something like: 'Swedish Video Television' (SVT)'. Then you could continue on at the (unnamed) object of your ire. It might also help people like me if you made it clear who your tirade is aimed at. RASAM (talk) 13:32, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

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Eurovision 2020 has been cancelled due to COVID-19
Eurovision 2020 in Rotterdam is cancelled

It was inevitable but as they say, safety first. --Conor M98 (talk) 13:57, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

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"a desire to unite Europe"
"originally conceived through a desire to unite European countries through cross-border television broadcasts following World War II" has no citation, and is false. The eurovision website https://eurovision.tv/history/origins-of-eurovision has a different origin which is less romantic. Fans tend to be really into the "desire to unite Europe" idea, but it doesn't hold water with any more reputable sources, even if it has been said by Eurovision hosts. This page itself doesn't even make this claim beyond the introduction. I tried to edit this, but the "ClueBot NG" undid my edit, so I don't think I can change it again. Verilyb (talk) 06:54, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I've returned your edits, and have labled the reversion as a false positive using the bot's tools. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 08:12, 24 April 2023 (UTC)