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Review: October 15, 2020. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Eurovision: Come Together appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 July 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that following the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, the BBC produced their own show to determine the British public's favourite Eurovision song of all time?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eurovision: Come Together.

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Seven Pandas (talk) 15:04, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Swedish pop group ABBA in 1974

... that "Waterloo" by ABBA (pictured) was voted the most popular song in Eurovision history in a special BBC broadcast, Eurovision: Come Together? [1]
- ALT1:... that ABBA's "Waterloo" was voted the most popular song in Eurovision history by the British public in a special BBC broadcast Eurovision: Come Together? [2]
- ALT2:... following the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, the BBC held their own show, Eurovision: Come Together, to determine the British public's favourite Eurovision song of all time? [3][4]

Created by Sims2aholic8 (talk). Self-nominated at 09:23, 24 June 2020 (UTC).[reply]

@Sims2aholic8: New enough and long enough. Hook source is in article, interesting, and checks out. I am worried about close paraphrasing to this passage from the BBC: Panellists were asked to choose songs based on the following criteria; 'Eurovision songs that you believe are modern day classics or songs that have stood the test of time. Please consider the overall package, ie the live performance, the staging, and the song.' Panellists were excluded from choosing songs they had prior involvement with, as artist, writer, publicist, or vocal coach. If that's tweaked, this will passs. Raymie (t • c) 03:31, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Raymie: Thanks, I've now rephrased the paragraph in question into my own words so as to diverge further from the source material. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 09:28, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is now fit for approval. Raymie (t • c) 17:10, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Eurovision: Come Together/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 13:17, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewing for the GAN October 2020 Backlog Drive. MWright96 (talk) 13:17, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

Lead

"19 previous Eurovision entries," - don't begin a sentence with a digit per MOS:NUMNOTES
"contested the event," - try to use an alternative word other than "event"

Background

"a look at what would have been in 2020." - this portion of text closely resembles that of the BBC source that verifies it. It will need rewriting to pass WP:LIMITED
"official replacement programme to the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest," - 2020 edition,
"and broadcast live from Hilversum on 16 May 2020," - the source does not mention it occurred in Hilversum. Another source is needed to verify this fact
"instead via the BBC iPlayer." - through BBC iPlayer
Wikilink Graham Norton
"This press release also confirmed that Eurovision: Come Together would give viewers the opportunity to take part in a live vote." - needs a reliable source at the end of this to verify that it is correct

Selection process

"all songs from the contest pre-2020." - before 2020.
"were not eligible." - ineligible
"Panellists was asked to choose ten Eurovision songs" - select

Participants

"and each account holder was able to cast a vote up to three times." - cast up to three votes.
"of the live show, and the top 10 results were announced via the BBC website following the show." - close repetition of "show"
Each one of the table's columns should include "scope="col" per MOS:DTT
All of the artist names in the artist column should be put into the Template:sortname template

References

Reference 2 is linked to the incorrect article from the BBC
Reference 16 is missing the publication date
The Guardian is the work not the publisher

The review shall be put on hold to allow the nominator to address or query the suggestions raised above. MWright96 (talk) 15:03, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Sims2aholic8: Are you going to make the changes or do you need some help? Grk1011 (talk) 17:22, 12 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@MWright96: I went ahead and made the changes. Please let me know if you see any other issues. Thanks for your patience! Grk1011 (talk) 14:07, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Now promoting to GA class. MWright96 (talk) 19:26, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]