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Italy

Regarding the change of Italy's status from withdrawn to retired, my problem is not that I think Italy are planning a comeback; I just feel that writing that Italy "retired" from the contest gives the impression that they're definitely not coming back. That would require a reliable source to say so, and certainly everything I've seen about it has suggested that an Italian return is far from impossible (nothing concrete about a return, though). I think "withdrew" is more accurate in this sense. Chwech 17:39, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

definitely not coming back = RETIRE!!! but RAI conceded to San Marino RTV the right of participation in 2008... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.3.182.121 (talk) 11:12, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but they never said they were definitely not coming back. We need a reliable source to say so unambiguously. I can't tell you when Italy will come back - because I don't know, obviously; it could be never - but that really isn't the point here. Chwech 14:35, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, but after the participation of San Marino I'm so angry... --79.31.44.229 (talk) 17:57, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Azerbaijain and San Marino

Both should be put into the entries table, but with a 0 in the entries and wins coloumn--Adamml13 (talk) 07:26, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cyprus 'outside the geographical boundaries of Europe' - since when?

I think a hell of a lot of Cypriots would be very surprised to find they've suddenly been moved into Asia...206.165.150.70 (talk) 09:26, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was about to make this edit, but UNdata says that it's in Western Asia (despite being in the EU?) This is bizarre news to me, but far be it from me to contradict the UN (unless any Cypriots would like to weigh in). LadyLeitMotif (talk) 16:54, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Czechia leaves the contest

Hi! The Czech Republic has left the contest [1] because the 3 contestants have sucked so far, and moreover, no one watches the contest here, anyway. Could you please edit the article accordingly? It's not clear to me whether a current list actually is somewhere in the article. --Lumidek (talk) 20:04, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Qatar

Is it really true, that Qatar could take part if they want? No, it´s the other Way round: Qatar want´s to participete, but can´t. They try to get the full EBU-Membership, but didn´t get it yet, because they are too far away from Europe [2] Greetings from Germany:-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.43.168.100 (talk) 17:07, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps I read the article incorrectly, but I cannot see it saying anywhere in the article about Qatar being too far away from Europe to be able to participate in the contest. In fact I read it as saying that Qatar is actually within the boundaries set by the EBU to be able to apply! My question regarding Qatar is this: In the article it states that "Qatar has sought EBU membership, and now plans to enter the Eurovision Song Contest for 2011, but as membership from the EBU was received early, Qatar Radio said they would be happy to enter the Eurovision Song Contest for 2010, and have no worries about broadcasting or displaying the Israeli entry which has put many Arab countries off entering the contest." Why then did Qatar not participate in the 2010 contest, and why are they not in this year's contest if they both desire to and have no problem with being in it? Lukex115 (talk) 15:33, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see how any Qatari broadcaster could be eligible for EBU membership at all under current rules. To be eligible, a company must be from a country which is a member state of the Council of Europe or located within the European Broadcasting Area (EBA). The eastern boundary of the EBA is 40° East and the southern boundary is 30° North. Qatar isn't a member of the Council of Europe, and it's both too far east and too far south to be in the EBA. (The southeastern "corner" of the EBA is in northern Saudi Arabia.) And, accordingly, no Qatari television company has an active membership in the EBU (see [3]). Qatar does have an associate member of the EBU (Al Jazeera Children's Channel), but then so do various countries outside the EBA, including the USA, Canada, Australia, and Japan. See [4]. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:49, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Official ESC site now has a page about this: Qatar is definitely out of the EBA, and it will never be in Council of Europe. Maybe we can remove it from the article (or at least mention this fact). By the way, why does Qatar has a source about Scotland? --SimoneMLK (talk) 15:02, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't like the idea of simply just removing it, it looks fine in that section, just add your findings to the box and ref it by removing the already wrong ref their. -- [[ axg ◉ talk ]] 19:02, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Czechias Debuet missing

On the Tablet at the Bottom, Czechia only participated in 2008 & 2009. But they debuetet in 2007. Can somebody change it? --46.115.21.126 (talk) 01:39, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yugoslavia

When we are talking about Yugoslavia at ESC we have to know that there were 2 Yugoslavias. 1. Yugoslavia as federation of 6 countries and 2 autonomic regions (1961 - 1991) SFRY and 2. as dictatorship of Slobodan Milošević - FRY. So, I'm pleasing the author of the site let correct your datas about Yugoslavia.

Explanation:

When "Yugoslav" preselection held in Sarajevo 1992. Croatia and Slovenia were independent and international recognized countries in their way to became a member of UN and other international institutions. Same time former EEC decided to not recognize Yugoslavia as a country anymore. It was January 15th 1992. Same day then "Yugoslav" preselection held, in Zagreb (Croatia) held Croatian national preselection. EBU promised to HRT that "Yugoslavia" will not participated at the contest but, thx to Scandinavian countries and Benelux countries Croatia stayed withdrew for Malmö 1992. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.253.227.35 (talk) 11:59, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge with Unsuccessful Eurovision Song Contest applicants

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

In accordance with the closing procedure for merging, enough time (in this case over 4 months) has elapsed and there has been no discussion or is unanimous consent to merge. So I have carried out the merger. Wesley Mᴥuse 21:08, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It has been suggested that the contetnts from this article would be better off merged into List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest#Unsuccessful attempts to participate. This current article hardly expands on the content from its proposed merging place. In any case, countries in very different positions shouldn't all be lumped together like they are in this article. (see here for full details of the proposed suggestion). Wesley ☮ Mouse 03:03, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Yugoslavia

There were two Yugoslavias in the ESC. One have it's participants from 1961.-1977. and 1981.-1991., and second had his entry just one time: 1992. First Yugoslavia had a name: Socialistic Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, and second has a name: Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. First Yugoslavia include 6 socialistic republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia and Serbia) and 2 socialistic autonomous region (Kosovo and Vojvodina). The second Yugoslavia include only two republic (Montenegro and Serbia).

As for the Eurovision Song Contest you have to know that at the national preselection 1992. held in Belgrade was representatives from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and second Yugoslavia.

To be historically correct, in a list of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest, you have to split one Yugoslavia (from 1961.-1991.) of the other (1992.)

Marita Nikkenen Finland — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.60.50.114 (talk) 12:57, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Scotland and Wales

Since apparently editors would rather edit war instead of discussing here, I am starting this topic. As you might have seen, there is currently a dispute over the inclusion of Scotland and Wales in the "Unsuccessful attempts to participate" section, with the reason stating that both are already covered at United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest#Separate entrants, and having them here would be a duplicate. While Wales was added this week, Scotland has been on the article for almost six years now, and no one had complained about its duplicaticity since, except for the recent edit war. Now, there is nothing wrong with having alike content on multiple articles, quite the opposite: Readers who care about a topic like this would want to read up on all countries, and not have to go to another page to find content that could as well be covered before. This is especially if the user does not know that there even is that content on another page. A good handling of longer content would be KFC (which has its own article) briefly described on the article of Colonel Sanders (who founded the food chain), and then link to the "main article" using the eponymous template; {{Main article}}. For the here-named content, the text is not long enough to necessaryize the shortening, as there are hardly ten sentences each. Concluding with my opinion: Both sections should stay as-is, only the Wales one could use some sources, which should not be hard to find. (Pinging all involved contributors: @Jonbonjela, Fort esc, Doktorbuk, and Oshwah) Lordtobi (✉) 14:27, 5 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thank you for opening a discussion and for attempting to reach out to the other editors involved. The only reverts I made to this article was due to the edits not being discussed and to tell the involved users to open one (instead of edit war). So long as all editors involved discuss the dispute and that any edits reflect consensus that is reached as a result of the discussion, you're golden! Again, thanks for opening this talk page discussion and I wish everyone happy editing. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 21:17, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Lordtobi: Whilst the Scottish section is well cited with historic context, the Welsh section is an entire paragraph of vague blog-style considerations and uncited claims. I will happily accept and retain the Scottish section because it is up to Wikipedia standards. The Welsh section is not. doktorb _words^deeds 01:08, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The elements named in the section should be sourcable easily and potential third-party-esque text rewritten. The UK articles actually does cover a few citations for it. Lordtobi (✉) 17:28, 9 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

United States broadcasting history of Eurovision Song Contest

I've seen on several articles the United States has shown the Eurovision Song Contest namely in years 1971, 2002, 2003 & 2004 with Univision as the broadcaster. None of these articles has reliable sources citing this information and all news articles from 2016 including the EBU states that Logo TV was the first time the Contest was shown on American television. This article also has these years listed when the Contest was shown in the United States without any sources. I've searched all over and I can't find any information about the United States showing ESC until the 2016 contest. I'm suggesting we remove this content unless a reliable source backs up this information. ♪♫Al ucard 16♫♪ 18:16, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Alucard 16: you have a few options here that you could have carried out. 1) Placed {{Citation needed}} next to the unsourced content. Or 2) have been WP:BOLD and just removed it anyway, noting in the edit summary that it is unsourced. Personally, I'd have opted for the latter and left a short note here or at WT:ESC so people had a reference as to why they were removed. Wes Wolf ^Talk 19:07, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've found two separate edits relating to this unsourced content:

Here by IP address 208.54.83.198 — This states that Univision broadcast the contest, debuting in 2017.
Here by @Lordtobi: — This states that Univision broadcast the event from 2002 to 2004.
Here by fellow Wikiproject Eurovision member, @Fort esc: — This removes mention of a 2017 Univision broadcast but states an unknown broadcaster was involved in 1971.

I have not found any sources to verify this information either. Before we delete the content, I'd like to hear what some of the users have to say about the content. — Tuxipεdia^(talk) 21:12, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Since I initiated the section, I skimmed through all Eurovision contest articles from 2000–2017 and cross-copied the information to here. If the information was wrong in the first place, it should be corrected on the corresponding articles first. Lordtobi (✉) 21:15, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Lordtobi. I've taken a look at the original articles and found the diffs that state Univision as having broadcast the contest. They are as follows:

Here by IP address 172.56.14.220 — 2002 contest.
Here by same IP address 172.56.14.220 — 2003 contest.
Here by same IP address 172.56.14.220 — 2004 contest.

As this came from an IP address who has not been active since the day he made these edits, nearly a year ago, I expect trying to communicate them is futile and we should remove mention of United States broadcasting the Eurovision Song Contest in 2002, 2003 and 2004. However, this doesn't shed light on the mysterious 1971 broadcast, as there's no mention of United States on the Eurovision Song Contest 1971 article. — Tuxipεdia^(talk) 21:30, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Tuxipedia: those 3 edits are made by the same IP inserting the same unsourced content. So I would 99.9% hang my hat on those edits being vandalism that slipped through the net, or original research. Either way they should be removed without any contention from others. Wes Wolf ^Talk 21:55, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, any content in the other countries who have broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest that is not sourced should be fully removed. Everyone should know by now the strictness of citing content. If it cannot be verified, then we shouldn't be listing it - this is after all a 'Feature List', so all unsourced content should be removed, more so as this list will be appearing on the Wikipedia main page in a few days time (as is the case ever year). Wes Wolf ^Talk 22:00, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I've gone ahead and deleted everything in the broadcast section that wasn't sourced. Of course, there will be content that will need to be placed back. But this must be done with an accompanying citation as to verify everything. And of course, there will be content that may be incorrectly sourced. I'm hoping I might get a helping hand with fixing up this section, especially if it will show up on the main page soon. — Tuxipεdia^(talk) 03:15, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The only one I added back was Logo TV for the United States with sources. ♪♫Al ucard 16♫♪ 03:38, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That is a good start, @Tuxipedia:. And thank you to @Alucard 16: for replacing the sourced content. Any cleaning up would need to be done swiftly, as featured articles that appear on the main page get fully protected, due to its high visibility. Wes Wolf ^Talk 11:10, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm perfectly happy to work on this, but I'm slightly confused. Wikipedia:Today's featured list/May 2017 doesn't include the List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest. How do you know that the list will feature? — Tuxipεdia^(talk) 11:43, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Tuxipedia: It has done every year, I have been a Wikipedian for nearly 6 six years now. There is always something on the main page about Eurovision, whether it be the featured article, featured list, or in the news section. Wes Wolf ^Talk 11:57, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Yugoslavia vs. Yugoslavia

The two Yugoslavias took a part during history of this contest. One Yugoslavia competed from 1961.-1976+1981.-1991. and other 1992. As we all know, with the break-up of Yugoslavia in its territory, seven new states emerged, which, as of 1974, functioned as independent countries. In 1991, two Yugoslav states, Slovenia and Croatia declared independence, and were internationally recognized in January 1992. Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims independence in March 1992 and is immediately recognized internationally.

EBU recognizes independence of Croatia and Slovenia at the end of January 1992, and BiH among with EU states. The EBU promises that Croatia and Slovenia will be able to compete at the Eurosystem in 1992, which was held in Malmo, and that they will expel Yugoslavia from the same contest. Croatia, in the show called Studio Grand Prix, chooses a song for Eurovision (band "Magazin" song: "Aleluja") and handing it at time, but as the rest of Yugoslavia (Serbia, Vojvodina, Kosovo and Montenegro) changes the Constitution and proclaims a state named Yugoslavia that is not the successor of the former socialistic Yugoslavia, EBU leaves a brand new Yugoslavia in competition but does not accept Croatian song.

So, when you say that Yugoslavia competed from 1961 till 1992. that's not true. That's two different countries, so please correct that big mistake. Liana Capitain — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.149.51.78 (talk) 15:08, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It is stated in the article that Serbia and Montenegro (at the time known as Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) competed as Yoguslavia, and is provided as such in secondary as well as EBU-primary sources, wherefore it is from that POV correct and verifyable. Lordtobi (✉) 18:19, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Use of colour in 'Participating countries in the decades'

For accessibility reasons one should not rely solely on colour to convey information. The use of colour in the tables could be supplemented by text codes. It would make more sense to use 'X' to indicate that a country DID NOT participate, thus freeing up all the boxes for participating occasions for other text codes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A04:B2C2:1014:B600:3858:A7C3:5DBF:F822 (talk) 09:24, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Kosovo

Lets clarify one thing. Kosovo is not only rebel Albanians. Besides non-rebel ethnic Albanians, many Serbs from Kosovo also participated within Serbia speacilly because Kosovo Serbs have a very rich musical culture. So stop with that "Kosovars were forced, they didnt participate" because that is not truth. FkpCascais (talk) 21:03, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Historical revisionism cannot be done to satisfy the delusion of serbian terrorists, irredentists and separatists which constitute only 1% of the entire Kosovo population and whom Kosovan authorities combat on daily basis. The serbian minority in Kosovo was never more than 1% and it has always been above 40 years old, uneducated, empoverished, unintegrated (due to their refusal) and living in isolated near-extinct villages, therefore their music has never been "rich" as you proclaim, but just folk and church oriented. Xuanwuu (talk) 04:23, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Numerous musicians from Kosovo participated in the Serbian contest (Albanians ignoring this and just focusing on their "rebel" singers, is offensive), and not only each edition included numerous bands and musicians from Kosovo, but even between winners we have Nevena Božović (born in Kosovska Mitrovica), represented Serbia in 2013. FkpCascais (talk) 21:21, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am a Dutch journalist who has reported from Kosovo and Serbia between 2004-2007, and – as it is historically confirmed – after the liberation of Kosovo, the UN Mission had terminated all Serbian institutions (including their broadcasting service) in 1999, thus replacing them with Kosovo-Albanian ones that function independently to this day. Serbia has officially lost its control over Kosovo in May 1999 which then followed with the latter's independence in 2008 and those two neighbouring countries still do not have diplomatic relations since 1999, therefore your claim of them having participated together in Eurovision after that time is absurd and laughable. Additionally, the EBU has licensed Kosovo's public broadcaster to independently telecast Eurovision Song Contest since 2000 onwards, and this fact is mentioned in the article in a question. Last but not least – those serbian artists that were born in Kosovo but now are citizens of Serbia, cannot qualify as Kosovans. In Wikipedia you are obliged to deal with facts, therefore reversions were made accordingly! Xuanwuu (talk) 04:23, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Roughly half of the World considers Kosovo independent while other half considers Kosovo part of Serbia. So participants from Kosovo at Serbian Eurovision contest have all the legitimacy all the way until 2008 at least, because until that time the territory had no other legitimate participation at Eurovision rather than Serbia. Your guessing if they are, or not, citizens of Kosovo, is WP:OR. Your toughts about Serbs from Kosovo are absolutelly irrelevant and offensive, besides totally made up. Yes, indeed, at Wikipedia we are obligated to deal with facts, so the undisputable fact here is that until Kosovo declared independence in 2008, Kosovo was a terrritory of Serbia, and people from Kosovo did participate in Serbian Eurovision contests. FkpCascais (talk) 22:36, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

PS: Please do not remove section headings. FkpCascais (talk) 22:40, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That is a personal point of view and an irredentist delusion of serbians, therefore it cannot be asserted in Wikipedia as if it were a fact and it shall be effectively removed. After the liberation of Kosovo in 1999 and until the country's independence in 2008, the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 administered Kosovo as a completely separate entity from Serbia, therefore your pretense of Kosovo having functioned as part of the latter is completely false. On 22 July 2010, International Court of Justice advisory opinion on Kosovo's declaration of independence ruled that the declaration of independence was not in violation of international law because international law contains no 'prohibition on declarations of independence'", and as of today, Kosovo is recognized by 117 states and is a member of most international organizations and sports federations. Also, international law does not require a state to recognise other states , therefore, if one country does not recognize another, it does not mean that it considers it as part of someone or something. You clearly do not understand how diplomatic recognition works. As for the so-called "serbian citizens of Kosovo" - they can be regarded as such only if they are legal citizens of the Republic of Kosovo - not of another state - and although serbians are a near-extinct minority group there (comprising of only 1% of the entire 96% of Albanian population), most of them refuse to integrate within the Kosovan society, therefore they are not legal citizens of Kosovo and cannot be used as reference point here until their eventual integration. How serbian separatists deal with themselves in Serbia - that is their own matter - not Kosovo's or China's. Xuanwuu (talk) 21:37, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yugoslavia

There were 2 Yugoslavias. From 1961. till 1991. and 1992. Second yugoslavia were without Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia. That coutry got new Constitution and changed name from Socialistic Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as community of Serbia and Montenegro. That country changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro 2000. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.149.51.194 (talk) 10:48, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The EBU handles Serbia and Montegro in the state where they were named "Yugoslavia" as the former country Yugoslavia, and so do we. Lordtobi (✉) 11:40, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Unsuccessful attempts

I trimmed down the unsuccessful attempts section because I noticed that many of them are not supported by the given sources. For example, the sections for Greenland, Catalonia, and Gibraltar are all sourced to articles that talk about broadcasting the event, but there is no mention of them trying to participate in it. All of the sources are from Eurovision-focused sources and the authors are explaining how theoretically a broadcaster could participate if they were an EBU member. That fits in the context of the article, but it doesn't translate into an "unsuccessful attempt" to participate by that country. The broadcasters never actually said anything about trying to participate. Grk1011 (talk) 20:22, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Catalonia RfC on Eurovision Song Contest 2020 result: exclude

Hello, I'm just leaving a note here to inform those interested about the RfC about the inclusion of Catalonia in the list of possible Eurovision Song Contest 2020 contenders. It has just been concluded, and the result of the discussion was that Catalonia should be excluded from the list. Editors on this article may or may not remove Catalonia here too, but that is up to them.—♦♦ AMBER^(ЯʘCK) 09:56, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Australia

This article says Australia has entered every year since its debut in 2015. Should it point out that this is a bit strange, as Australia is a long way from Europe? Vorbee (talk) 09:08, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No. Being physically located in Europe is not a prerequisite to being in the Eurovision Song Contest; otherwise, Israel, Armenia, etc. could not participate either. Participation is open to every EBU member broadcaster and, upon invitation, associate broadcasters. Australia is part of the latter group, as are Kazakhstan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and Kosovo in the Eurovision Young Dancers. Lordtobi (✉) 09:20, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The symbol "†"

Hey. I wonder if we could talk about using the symbol "†" for Non-Qualified countries. That symbol usually means death or recently died. I would like to ask if we could change "†" to "NQ" or something similar? doktorb _words^deeds 16:36, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Broadcast in East Germany

The article says "It [the Eurovision Song Contest] was also broadcast in several countries East of the Iron Curtain that have since dissolved, such as [...] East Germany..." I'd like a source for that. I find it highly unlikely that the Fernsehen der DDR ever broadcast the contest, except maybe in 1990. However, most East Germans could receive West German TV channels, so they were able to watch that. But does that count as "broadcast in East Germany"? The sentence certainly frames it like the official East German showed it. Thoughts? --Metrophil (talk) 12:59, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Many pages have said, with citations, that East Germany broadcast the contest frequently in the '60s and '70s.--BugsFan17 (talk) 20:28, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Clarifying "withdrawn" countries in "by decade" section

To avoid an edit war, please see the below rationale for why certain unsuccessful attempts to participate should not be included in the "participating countries by decade" tables.

The winning song in the 1970 edition of the Festival da Canção was never intended for Eurovision. We can tell because that year's edition was held in May 1970 (see Portuguese language article), two months after the corresponding Eurovision in March of that year. The Portuguese article also states that RTP had withdrawn in protest for the four-way tie in 1969 but held their own festival regardless of their absence from Eurovision. Highlighting Portugal therefore as "withdrawn", as in had intended to compete but later withdrew, is inaccurate as they had no intention on ever competing.
I cannot find any reliable references to say that Malta intended to participate in 1974 or 1976; they were included in the running order for 1973 but there's no indication that they intended to participate in the other two years. Songs being selected through a contest that might have been used for Eurovision in the past does not mean they intended to participate (e.g. Festival da Canção in 1970 and 2000, or A Dal since 2020), so unless reliable sources can be found that show that TVM applied and later withdrew then these should not be included. For Malta in 1990 again I don't see any reliable sources for them here; there is some stuff online about a potential entry being blocked due to numbers but I question the reliability of that (this website, which is used as a source for this doesn't appear very reliable to me).
Liechtenstein could not have taken part in 1976 as they did not (and still do not) have a broadcaster which is a member of the EBU. Therefore any potential attempt to participate would have failed and they should not be included in the table at all.

These are the facts as I see them; there is obviously a lot of rumour online but not all of it is based in fact, and given Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia we should be concerned with the facts. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 14:33, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with your stance about being quite strict over this. There are elements of "fandom" which hold on quite hard to facts that are, at best, Chinese whispers. Sadly a lot of sites copy each other's amazing facts sections which can come across as validating rumour as truth. Wikipedia can also be used as "proof" of various urban myths and legends. We just need to keep focused on what we can verify. doktorb _words^deeds 19:55, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Further comments following more additions to these tables.

HRT did not join the EBU until 1 January 1993, so a participation in the 1992 contest was impossible, regardless of whether an edition of Dora was held in 1992.
I have not seen any indication that Yugoslavia ever intended to participate in 1985; the anniversary of Tito's death and the date of the contest would have been well known in advance, so JRT would have had ample opportunity to notice the clash in dates. Jugovizija was held several times when Yugoslavia did not participate, so we cannot use that as a basis for their purported entry.
There are claims by an artist that she had been approached to represent Liechtenstein in 1976, but that is all it is. There was no way for Liechtenstein to participate as they don't have an EBU member broadcaster, so we cannot include them in this table. In the same way that an artist from the US or Canada could be approached to represent their country there's no chance they could represent Canada as there are no full member broadcasters in Canada (if the EBU wanted to invite a Canadian broadcaster to participate that's on them, but there's nothing the artist in Canada can do to just enter).

As I said previously we need to stick to the facts, and for any of these cases there needs to be reliable sources to support any claim that a country's broadcaster had intended to participate but withdrew at a late stage, which is what the "W" indicates. Any attempts to add absent years to the table will continue to be reverted if no reliable sources are provided. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 07:51, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I found out that the MESC 2022 semifinal had 2 tributes to Enzo Gusman and Jon Lukas Woodenman showing a compilation of their songs. For Gusman’s tribute, they show “Peace to the World,” his supposed 1974 entry along with his other MESC entries, which implies that MESC 1974 was to supposed to go to Eurovision. His 1976 entry, “Sing Your Song Country Boy” wasn’t included. Jusherman (talk) 08:42, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Jusherman: "Supposed" and "implied" makes me very skeptical. Information on Wikipedia has to be verified and backed up by reliable sources. Maybe there was a contest in 1974 or 1976, but there is no proof that I can see to actually suggest that Malta intended to enter Eurovision in those years, as opposed to 1973 where we do have a reliable source that they made an attempt to enter but withdrew (Roxburgh 2012). Sims2aholic8 (talk) 09:45, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note about Russia being excluded in 2022

@AnselaJonla: I don't think this per se needs to be explained though? Belarus and the two dissolved countries are explained because they are special cases and because of that differently coloured, but there are so many grey countries that it doesn't make sense to me to explain them. If you want to know more about the country's participation, you can go to the per-country page. ―Jochem van Hees (talk) 01:31, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relegated legend

I think it's more appropriate if we change the relegated color because unlike the upcoming legend, it's not seen in any of the articles regarding the countries competing and they look too similar, the only difference being the symbol used. Jusherman (talk) 07:17, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Czech Republic -> Czechia?

Should we change all the mentions of “Czech Republic” before their EBU rename into “Czechia?” By that, what I mean is we should do the same thing with North Macedonia. Jusherman (talk) 04:07, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No. doktorb _words^deeds 06:22, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jusherman: We've had this discussion already, see Talk:Czech Republic in the Eurovision Song Contest#Requested move 10 February 2023. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 08:59, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]