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Good articleEurovision Song Contest 1990 has been listed as one of the Music good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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DateProcessResult
March 19, 2024Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 20, 2024.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Eurovision Song Contest 1990, held in Yugoslavia, was the first Eurovision Song Contest to be held in the Balkans or in a socialist state?

Standing still whilst playing

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What does this mean?

"The orchestra was just standing still as the conductor was waiting for the backing track cue, obviously not knowing that the TV audience was already hearing the orchestra part playing."

They were standing still whilst playing? This sentence doesn't make sense to me. - Jetro (talk) 22:43, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: The C of E (talk · contribs) 09:25, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I shall take this on. The C of E God Save the King! (talk) 09:25, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Where was the 1989 contest held in the Location section?
    • I don't particularly see how the location of the previous event is relevant to this article. Can you add more of your thinking on this?
  • What kind of renovations were needed?
    • I've done an extensive search for this and unfortunately from the sources that are available I can't find an answer for this question.
  • Per MOS:PF I do think the rehersals paragraph could do with some more citations.
    • Reading MOS:PF I'm not sure how there is a violation here, given that MOS entry is about how references are presented, which I believe is met consistently through the article. Is there another policy you are trying to refer to?
  • "During the week of rehearsals problems arose regarding the choice of presenters for the event", MOS:COMMA needed
    •  Done
  • Is there a reason why only the spokespeople of 3 countries are known? Didn't they announce who was on the phone/screen during the event like they do nowadays? Would it be possible if we're able to dig a little deeper and flesh that out please?
    • Because the voting was conducted only through telephone lines (there were no in-person satellite links until 1994) the hosts would generally refer to the spokespersons only by the city/country in which they were based. Finding reliable references for this as well has proved very difficult, as the majority of sources available have generally relied on Wikipedia for this information, therefore breaking WP:CIRCULAR. I have spent a great deal of energy and time trying to find reliable references to back up any claims which were present on Wikipedia and unfortunately these are the only entries that are currently available to us right now.
    • More to come. The C of E God Save the King! (talk) 17:13, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Source 4, the publisher is a bare web address
    • Also what makes it a WP:RS? It looks a bit like a tourist blog.
      • Ref now replaced with two separate refs covering the different material which they are verifying. Hopefully this resolves this issue.
  • Source 37, as per WP:METRO, the Metro is considered unreliable and should not be used. This will need to be replaced.
    •  Done Hopefully the new reference is suitable.
  • Source 45, the archiving site is a web address
  • Source 67, needs the padlock icon to be consistent with the rest of the article.
    • I am able to access this without any issues. There doesn't appear to be any subscription or access blocks in place that would require flagging at least on my side, and I've checked that I am not logged in with an account or anything like that.

Did you know nomination

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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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 20:32, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Improved to Good Article status by Sims2aholic8 (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 15 past nominations.

Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.
General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nominated for DYK within 7 days of GA status. Length is good, sourcing is good. The nominator has only made 15 nominations and thus does not meet the requirement for 2 QPQs, so it looks good to go. The hook on the DYK is interesting but I was hoping if there were another citation for it because the current hook uses a primary source. lullabying (talk) 23:06, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]