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This is the first edition of the WikiProject Eurovision newsletter in a bimonthly format. Following a discussion on the project talk page this may now become the regular format for the newsletter during the months that the project is less active.
A proposal was made to change Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) to discourage the use of numeric dates, primarily YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2009-08-12 for 12 August 2009), in footnotes as at present it is only discouraged in the main article body. The proposal now seems unlikely to pass due to large levels of opposition, though it could have had a large impact on this project as the date format YYYY-MM-DD is frequently used in Eurovision for reference publication and access dates. Further discussion can be found on the project talk page.
Eurovision News
31 countries have confirmed their participation in the 2010 Contest. ESCToday has suggested that the Eurovision Song Contest may be entering a crisis due to the possibility of a large drop in the number of participants next year with the ongoing international recession hitting the budgets of many broadcasters in Europe.
Luxembourg and Monaco have both ruled out a return to the Eurovision Song Contest for 2010. A decision by San Marino on if to return or not has not yet been made.
Hungary declared it is pulling out of the Eurovision Song Contest due to the financial difficulties of the national broadcaster Magyar Televízió (MTV).
National selection details for the 2010 Contest are now available for sixteen countries. Despite the contest being over six months away, Bulgaria has already announced that the artist that will represent the country in 2010 will be Miroslav Kostadinov (who is frequently referred to as Miro).
It has been announced that the voting system used for the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals will change in 2010. The previous system was introduced in 2008 along with the first use of two semi-finals; it involved nine out of ten final places per semi-final being determined exclusively by televote, with the tenth place being determined by juries. This will be replaced by a more balanced 50% jury voting, 50% televoting system.
Javine Hylton was also nominated for GA status but was quickly failed due to a large number of concerns. The nominator, Judo112 (talk·contribs), was later found to be a sock puppet of a previously blocked user.
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of the WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter!
There have been quite a few updates to the 2010 Contest article since 1 September. Nine countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Ireland, Macedonia, Malta, Poland, Serbia, and Slovenia) have confirmed their participation, and the article in general has seen many changes. Sadly, whilst some editors have been working hard to provide reliable sources, others have been less thorough and the article has had to be semi-protected again to prevent further disruption. This is a shame, as ideally anyone should be able to edit; however, the talk page is always available to bring new information to light.
The participating countries' section has also been updated to allow the inclusion of information about the language, artist and song (with an English translation as appropriate), although to date this is very much a work in progress. As news comes in, we look forward to enriching this section in the coming months—backed-up of course with sources!
No new country-specific articles have been written these past two months. If you want to add more detailed information about a country's participation in the 2010 Contest, this is the ideal way to do it, and they are very much appreciated by our readers.
Thank you. I did re-add the info, but I used the same PW Insider source because they have the dates and cities that were listed in the memo. [1] He must have somehow misread the source since I and another editor both used the PW Insider link and he somehow thought it was Scoops. Wwehurricane1 (talk) 23:25, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Your source actually got the information from my source, lol. There's a link at the top of the article on PW Torch to the information on PW Insider. Wwehurricane1 (talk) 23:36, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
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Hulk Hogan held a press conference to announce that he has signed with TNA. It was later revealed that Eric Bischoff has also signed, and he and Hogan will be the new bookers.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of November 8, we are at 11.76%, with 521 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
Help out with the project's cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.
The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of November 22, we are at 11.68%, with 558 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of November and December.
WWE's official website announced the retirement of Jamie Noble on November 10.
On November 11, it was announced that TNA had released Sojournor Bolt from her contract.
On November 12, BBC News reported that Welsh wrestler Orig Williams, better known as El Bandito, died at the age of 78.
Paul London won the NorthEast Wrestling Championship on November 13 by defeating Jason Blade.
Dragon Gate announced that they had released Cyber Kong from his contract. Kong suffered a neck injury in late October, and did not feel he was healing well enough to return to wrestling, and so requested his release.
Sky Sports announced that it would begin to broadcast Superstars in Britain on December 11. It will also start broadcasting This Week in WWE, which will first air on January 3.
On November 20, it was reported that WWE had re-signed Mikey Batts to work as a referee.
It was reported on November 21 that TNA had signed British wrestler, "Sweet" Saraya Knight to a contract.
Editing Tips
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Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
Please remember that fair use images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.
Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of December 6, we are at 12.63%, with 601 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
As part of this, the project's second stub drive has been set up, and will run until the end of 2009. Please help out if you can.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of December.
On November 24, it was reported that British wrestler "Sweet" Saraya Knight had not signed a contract with TNA, despite earlier reports to the contrary.
On November 25, it was reported that ring announcerLauren C. Mayhew had left WWE to concentrate on her acting and music career.
On November 27, 2009, it was reported that wrestler "Sexy" Lexi Pillman (Alexa Pillman), Brian Pillman's step-daughter, had died due to injuries sustained in a car accident earlier that day.
On November 30, British Sky Broadcasting announced they had signed a new five year contract with WWE.
On December 1, WWE and Titan Publishing announced the creation of a comic book, WWE Heroes, with the first issue set to be released in March 2010.
Eddie Fatu, better known as Umaga, died on December 4 due to a heart attack. He had been rushed to the hospital earlier that day in a critical condition after his wife found him unresponsive with blood running from his nose.
On December 5, TNA announced that they would be holding a live, three-hour special Monday edition of TNA Impact! on Janauary 4, 2009 to compete against WWE Raw.
Editing Tips
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If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
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Fantastic work so far. Let me know when you're done for the day, I was planning to do some work at some stage but clearly there's no rush when you're also doing a very good job.
There is one thing though, I very deliberately separated races and starts. There are many drivers who didn't qualify for a lot of races (and in a lot of cases drivers that NEVER started a race). For these reasons I think that distinction is important. WFCforLife (talk) 16:01, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Try sorting, for instance, drivers beginning with 'O' in this diff. It does sort them in alphabetical order of surname. The reason it currently sorts some drivers by first name is that I've only done C-Z. Drivers whose surnames begin with A and B are sorted by first name. WFCforLife (talk) 16:33, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
That sounds good. Once the table is finished I think referencing is the only real bone of contention. I'm more of a casual F1 fan so I'm not 100% sure where to look for references either, but I'm sure it won't be too difficult. I'll leave a note at WP:F1 to see if anyone might be willing to help. WFCforLife (talk) 16:16, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
For the nationality table I don't like the last column (personally I'd change it to simply current drivers, and — those countries without one). What changes did you have in mind? WFCforLife (talk) 16:30, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
For the moment I won't change it back, but back up your claims. There is NOTHING against having the other parts highlighted. If you think it doesn't work, then bring it the article up for review again and see yourself proven wrong. The article was promoted with it, so until proven otherwise, it IS acceptable. You may not like that, but it's true. TJSpyke21:52, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
First, I didn't say anything about bolding (highlighting and bolding are two separate things). Second, you failed to show where it says a FL can't use hightlighting. All you and Wrestlinglover keep saying is "this is how current FL should be". You never show where it says this is required for current FL. If you think it's that important, bring up the lists to be re-reviewed and see what admins involved in promoting lists think. Neither you nor Wrestlinglover have ever backed up your claims, so right now they are nothing more than your opinions of what looks good and the lists will keep the format that looks better and is what got them promoted originally. TJSpyke22:08, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
My last edit only put the highlighting back in, not the bolding (although it does look better with bolding). Also, you STILL have not shown any proof of these so-called new standards for FL (like an admin saying in a FLN to remove them). Unless you have some proof, then all you keep saying is your opinion. TJSpyke22:50, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Besides the fact that WP:COLORS says no such thing (so I don't know what that other user is talking about), he does not say only 1 column can be colored. You are assuming that (and you know what happens when you assume?). Even if he did say that, then that would means the "days held" column would get highlighted too. TJSpyke00:26, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
FFS, stop mentioning Bold. YOU are the one that keeps mentioning that. The "+" is a symbol, so that cell would get highlighted too (not just the name of the wrestler). The example you put on my talkpage is good and what should be used. TJSpyke01:39, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
Me not admitting anything? It took THREE replies from me before you finally actually answered me (and even that wasn't a good answer). TJSpyke01:49, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
I asked you THREE times to provide proof of anyone saying something about highlights or this so-called new standard for FL, only after asking three times did you finally do so. I don't know if you were just being stubborn, or slow, or something else. You also keep ASSuming things (where did I say I refuse or accept it?). I merely pointed out that the editor's reasoning he gave you is flawed because COLORS doesn't say what he claimed it does. TJSpyke02:06, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
I am not trying to be rude. However, when you keep spouting BS (I never said anything about Bolding, but on multiple occasions in this discussion you said I did), sidestepping questions (I had to ask THREE times before you finally answered where this so-called new FL stuff came from), ignoring other stuff (like how that editor was mis-quoting COLORS), and assuming you know what I think, it's hard to have a discussion with you. You are not trying to discuss this, you kept avoiding actually answering and instead talked about unrelated stuff (which makes you like Sarah Palin). I never said highlighting should be the ONLY way to present the info, but using highlights makes it easier to spot the relevant info and can/should be used in addition to symbols. TJSpyke02:26, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
If you want to continue the debate with TJ Spyke then I suggest you find an appropriate mediator since the current way of carrying on the dispute does not seem to be working for anyone. The mediation cabal might be a good first stop for you. Guy (Help!) 11:51, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
ANI
I don't want you to accuse me of being uncivil again, so I am politely asking you why you didn't bother informing me you were bringing up a discussion on me at ANI? The message at the top of that page says (and I quote):
"You must notify any user that you discuss. You may use {{subst:ANI-notice}} to do so.".
This means you were supposed to let me know. The only reason I even found out was because I was looking at the edit log of an IP and noticed they had made a comment at ANI with my name as the section title. TJSpyke00:51, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
Then I apologize, I guess I didn't see it since when I logged on this morning I also got a notice from a bot (regarding an image that is no longer being used) and didn't see it. I still don't think you needed to bring it to ANI, I thought we were having a friendly debate/discussion. TJSpyke00:58, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of December 20, we are at 11.29%, with 531 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
As part of this, the project's second stub drive has been set up, and will run until the end of 2009. Please help out if you can.
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Contributors to this Issue
From all the newsletter contributors, have a happy holidays and a good new year!
As part of the project's 2009 New Year's Resolutions, there was an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of January 2, we are at 10.14%, with 476 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of January.
Sheik Abdul Bashir won one of the Feast or Fired briefcases, which was revealed to have the pinkslip in it. This storyline was put in place so Bashir could legitimately leave TNA.
Roxxi broke her ankle in two places at the Impact! taping on December 21.
On December 22, TNA announced they had signed a deal with Setanta Sports Africa to air Impact! and pay-per-views in several African countries.
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The project's 2010 New Year's Reolutions have been announced. Please help out by achieving a goal listed.
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Delivered: 11:24, 3 January 2010 (UTC) by MiszaBot (talk)
List of Formula One drivers
I like the rationale behind the new key, but the colours need a rethink. They're far too similar to one another in my opinion. They're used on the main page because they subtly compliment one another. Maybe the current yellow is a bit too dramatic, but for the purposes of a key we should go for colours that are somewhat different to one another. Perhaps #F2E0CE, #CEF2E0 and #F2CEE0? Regards, WFCforLife (talk) 05:54, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Happy Christmas and new year from WikiProject Eurovision.
This is the second edition of the newsletter to be in a bimonthly format. This will probably continue at least up until the next Eurovision Song Contest when the project is more active.
Editors are reminded that some articles covered WikiProject Eurovision are subject to the biographies of living persons policy. This does not just include biography articles such as Alexander Rybak, but any article with material related to living persons. Such information is highly sensitive, and unsourced or poorly sourced material about living persons must be removed immediately. Material which may seen trivial to editors, such as a false claim of participation in a contest, can potentially be highly sensitive to the living persons involved.
Eurovision articles on this project have been repeatedly subject to a form of sneaky vandalism. This involves unregistered users adding false information to articles such as Eurovision Song Contest 2010 (while unprotected). These false claims are then made to look legitimate through the use of "fake references" with false titles and links, example. Cuchufleta (talk·contribs) was blocked indefinitely for creating multiple hoax articles with the same editing technique. Editors are advised to look out for further disruption of this kind, as it seems to be originating from a determined individial or an organised group. More information can be found at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision#User:Cuchufleta.
Eurovision News
The EBU released their participants list for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest on 31 December 2009. 39 countries will take part. Five of these qualify directly to the final, with the 34 remaining countries each competing in one of two semi-finals (seventeen per semi-final).
Five countries have declared they will be withdrawing from the contest in 2010. The Czech Republic are withdrawing due to three semi-final failures and a lack of interest from Czech viewers. Andorra, Hungary, Lithuania, and Montenegro have all declared they are withdrawing for financial reasons.
Georgia is the only country that has declared it will be returning to the contest.
No debuts are planned either with Liechtenstein's only broadcaster 1FLTV having ruled out joining the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for December 2009. This made a debut by the country for the 2010 Contest no longer possible.
Despite the 2010 Contest being many months away countries are now actively declaring which artists and songs will be representing them at the contest. A table for this can be found at Eurovision Song Contest 2010#Participants. Nearly all of the declared participants now have dedicated entry articles.
Welcome to the fifteenth edition of the WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter!
Another decade has past for the Eurovision Song Contest. The naughties will probably be remembered as a decade of both success and controversy for the contest.
Televoting reached its peak in the early 2000s. This gave the contest a more democratic edge, but by 2008 it was widely believed to have made Eurovision resemble a political and geographic football match rather than a song contest. The EBU took action in 2009 by reducing televoting to having only a 50% weighting in the results of each contest.
Many new countries have joined the contest in the last decade, bringing the number of participants to a new high. Among this some countries withdrew while others returned, though one of the major missing countries, Italy, did not make a return as was hoped by many.
There was not a shortage of controversy either. Two participants went to war, and the buzz over the planned participation of Kosovo put Eurovision in the middle of a political storm. One also cannot forget that this decade saw the introduction of two spin-off contests - the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and the Eurovision Dance Contest. It is still not fully clear on how these fit into this project, perhaps we will work that out during the tens.
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of January 17, we are at 10.06%, with 466 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of January.
On January 8, Steven Lewington was released from his WWE contract.
On January 9:
It was reported that WWE had signed Asher Knight to a developmental contract.
It was reported that WWE had released developmental wrestler Sweet Papi Sanchez.
On January 10:
It was reported that WWE had released several developmental workers, including Dino Carter, Chris the BambiKiller, Lennox, Lift Swayner, Leroy Morgan, Max McGuirk, and Dylan Klein.
Former wrestler Tony Halme was found dead at the age of 47, in his apartment in Helsinki. No cause of death has been announced.
I've dealt with him long enough to know he just should be ignored. I've removed the block he placed on you. Any further problems, just let me know. I'm not as active as I would like, but I check my talk pages every few days usually. RobJ1981 (talk) 04:28, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi. This FLC on which you have commented has been restarted because the consensus was unclear. Can you revisit to make sure your comments have been addressed, and if possible, make a declaration of Support, Oppose or Neutral? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 16:38, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of January 31, we are at 10.09%, with 470 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of January and February.
The all-female promotion, Wrestlicious, announced that they had signed a deal to air their television show Takedown with BiteTV in Canada and MavTV in the United States.
On January 22, it was reported that Alissa Flash had left TNA.
Rob Terry defeated Eric Young to win the TNA Global Championship at a house show in Cardiff, Wales, in TNA's first championship change at a house show. His win also made him the first Welsh champion in a major wrestling organisation, and was the first time a TNA championship had changed hands outside of the United States.
It was reported that former Stampede Wrestling mainstay, Nick Pacchiano had died.
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heya, a lil while ago you made comments at the above's FLC discussion, however it was not promoted due to a general lack of interest. so was wondering if you could revisit and add any comments here? thanks :) Mister sparky (talk) 22:00, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Mind stopping by this FLC if you get the chance? I know I shouldn't be trolling for reviews, but you've previously commented on similar lists of mine and this FLC has sadly languished with few reviews for nearly a month now. Staxringoldtalkcontribs07:13, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you reviewed this list's first FLC, which failed because of lack of consensus. Can you pop in at the second FLC real quick? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 01:14, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, the above FLC has been restarted. Can you revisit it to ensure that your previous comments have been resolved? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 22:50, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of February 14, we are at 10.07%, with 472 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of February.
On the February 2 episode of ECW, Vince McMahon announced that ECW will be coming to an end. It will be replaced with a program called WWE NXT, which will debut on March 2.
This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
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I have restarted the nomination because the consensus is unclear. Please check back at the FLC to ensure your concerns have been addressed. Dabomb87 (talk) 15:41, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of February 28, we have dipped below 10% for the first time at 9.93%, with 469 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of March.
John Cena won an Elimination Chamber match to win the WWE Championship. Immediately after the match, however, he was defeated by Batista for the championship.
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Please consider helping out with the project's 2010 New Year's Resolutions, and help achieve one of the goals listed.
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Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
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An FAQ has been created for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 page in an attempt to mitigate repetitive discussions on the talk page about content in the article. This has not been previously done for a Eurovision article, though they are also used in other high profile areas such as Barack Obama and global warming.
There has been persistent problems on Anna Vissi related articles with a disruptive IP hopping editor making repeated sweeping and unwanted changes to the articles despite being asked to stop. An account that displayed similar behaviour, JORJKIE.AV (talk·contribs), has now been blocked indefinitely and some pages have had to be semi-protected for long periods.
On 7 February 2010 a draw was held to decide which semi-final of the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest each country will participate in. The draw also decided, for countries qualified straight to the final, which semi-final they will vote in.
Notable confirmed changes to the format of the Eurovision Song Contest this year include that the semi-finals will now be divided into two halves, and that voting will be open throughout each show rather than only after all entries have preformed.
It was announced in January 2010 that the Third Eurovision Dance Contest has been postponed a second time. It was originally due to be held in 2009, but was then postponed till 2010, and may now not happen at all, at least within the next two years. The EBU have justified the decision by saying there has been a decline in the popularity of TV dance shows.
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Innocent Heart was nominated for deletion at AfD and was deleted. Due to disruption the page was also protected to prevent re-creation. Users may consult an administrator or make a nomination at deletion review if they wish to make a good faith attempt at re-writing the article.
Je ne sais quoi (song) was nominated for deletion at AfD and kept. The participation of WikiProject Eurovision members was commented on during the discussion.
Welcome to the sixteenth edition of the WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter!
We're in full swing now! Although the Eurovision Song Contest is around 2 months away, this is probably one of the busiest times of the year for the WikiProject, with a whole load of semi-finals, quarter finals, heats as well as national finals to see who the country chooses to represent them at this years Eurovision Song Contest.
We now know which of the 35 countries will vote and perform in which semi-final. With the 'Big Four' and host country, Germany and Spain voting in the first semi-final and France, Norway and the United Kingdom in the second semi-final.
With 22 out of the 39 countries decided, we are just about half way through, with a whole lot more to come!
So when creating new articles about a performer or song, please remember to add sources either from Eurovision.tv, ESCToday or other reliable sources.
Please get involved, and contribute anything to articles whether it's a little spelling mistake or a whole new paragraph, and remember to look at the talk pages and have your say on any discussions that may be present.
The project currently has 80 members, with two joining and two leaving in January and February. One user left due to retirement, another due to being blocked indefinitely.
Want to invite new members? Place our invitation template on the talk page of anyone you would like to invite to our project.
New Members
We would like to welcome the new members who joined in January and February (by date joined):
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As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of March 14, we are at 9.78%, with 463 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of March.
This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
When adding headers to articles, do not add wikilinks to them and only capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns.
Please remember that fair use images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.
If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of March 28, we are at 7.85%, with 373 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of March and April.
On March 26, it was reported that Marco Corleone had officially left AAA.
Editing Tips
This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Avoid using dirtsheets as sources. Adhere to WP:RS when adding information with a source to articles. For a list of reliable and unreliable wrestling-related sources see WP:PW/SG#Sources.
A list of unreferenced wrestling-related BLPs is generated here. Please help out by sourcing these articles.
Please consider helping out with the project's cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.
Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
The Biographies of living persons policy should be strictly adhered to when adding to information to biography articles.
Only add controversial, possibly contentious or libellous information if it comes from a reliable source and is verifiable.
Make sure that all information contained in biographies of living persons is written neutrally, from a non-point of view perspective.
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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. -- Boing!said Zebedee20:44, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
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