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Eurovision Song Contest

 * Nominator(s): Sims2aholic8 (talk) 14:24, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

This article is about the Eurovision Song Contest, an international televised song competition held annually among member broadcasters of the European Broadcasting Union, and featuring music artists representing primarily European countries and performing wholly original compositions. It is one of the world's longest-running television programmes, with each edition regularly connecting with over 200 million viewers globally and receiving worldwide media coverage, and has launched the music careers of among others ABBA and Celine Dion. The article is listed as a Level 4 vital article and has previously been a Featured Article before being demoted in 2009. A great deal of work has gone into the article over the past couple of months, with a complete rewrite to improve prose and structure, adding further details on the contest's history, organisation and cultural influence, including criticism and controversial moments, while also improving the quantity and qualify of the source material. A request for peer review expired with no suggestions, so I'm putting this forward for FA now in the hopes that any improvements can be discussed here. Any and all comments are very welcome. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 14:24, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Image review
 * Suggest scaling up the multicoloured maps and the diagrams
 * Suggest adding alt text
 * File:EurovisionParticipants.svg: what's the source for the data presented? Ditto File:Eurovision_participation_map.svg, File:Eurovision_Participants_1992.svg
 * File:Eurovision_Song_Contest_logo.svg does not have a strong fair-use rationale. Why is the main infobox logo free when this one is non-free?
 * This concern still stands. Nikkimaria (talk) 12:01, 24 September 2020 (UTC)


 * File:Eurovision_2004_Scoreboard.jpg has no fair-use rationale
 * File:ESC2016_Trophy.jpg: what's the copyright status of the trophy?
 * Don't see that anything has changed here? Nikkimaria (talk) 12:01, 24 September 2020 (UTC)


 * File:Hosts_of_the_Eurovision_Greatest_Hits.jpg: royalty-free is not the same as restriction-free. What is the licensing status of this image?
 * Don't see that anything has changed here? Nikkimaria (talk) 12:01, 24 September 2020 (UTC)


 * File:Calls_for_boycott_Eurovision_Song_Contest_2019.jpg: what's the copyright status of the mural? Nikkimaria (talk) 17:01, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
 * This concern still stands. Nikkimaria (talk) 12:01, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I believe all the points above have now been resolved through additions and greater clarification on the image descriptions. Please do reply if you believe I have missed anything or if there are further comments. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 07:33, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

We need more work on the prose. This sentence illustrates common problems. "Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine a winner." It is too long, not quite a snake, but close and it contains a fused participle, "with...countries...casting". This construction, which is used numerous times in the article, (here for example "with several conservative politicians voicing displeasure in the result") lowers the standard of the writing. The issue can often be found by performing a global search for "with" and any related participles. For a full explanation of the issue, see Tony1's essay here. At the moment the prose is not FA standard.Graham Beards (talk) 15:50, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Comments from Buidhe
 * Usually you can get more comments at Good article nominations than peer review.
 * Some MOS issues, such as starting sentences with a numeral.
 * Other related competitions sections is unsourced, but contains many verifiable claims, such as that these competitions are "similar" to Eurovision. I would consider axing the section if they have no institutional relationship—or better yet, write a prose paragraph detailing the impact of Eurovision on other music events. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  22:39, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Comments from Graham Beards

Coordinator comment - It looks like this was not adequately prepared and could be best served by going through some other review and building processes before nomination here. -- Laser brain  (talk)  12:20, 28 September 2020 (UTC) -- Laser brain  (talk)  12:20, 28 September 2020 (UTC)