And there we have it. The national selection season is over, and the final countdown to Vienna has begin. At the Heads of Delegations meeting, held in Vienna, all of the 40 competing countries submitted their selected entries for the sixtieth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. Who's will win? Will there be any in the running to get the dreaded "nul point"? We shall find out those answers in May. The Project Eurovision Cup is already in full-swing, with one member currently in a runaway lead. Can they hold onto that lead? The answer to that question will be revealed in a few weeks time. However, registration for the next competition is open. Have you got what it takes to be crowned Outstanding Project Member? Sign up today!
There is serious concerns regarding content being added to biography articles, which quite a lot of content being added without strong sources to verify the changes. The newsdesk editorial team strongly urge all members to familiarise themselves with all of the BLP guidelines, in order to avoid being placed on a BLP arbitration sanction. Also there are still a lot of articles that have not had their respective talk pages created and/or are unassessed. It is vital that you create such talk pages and assess them. Such actions help this project to keep a near-accurate record of all articles that we current hold and may require any maintenance action carried out on them. And they also help to notify the project of any that get nominated for deletion too. So if you create an article without a talk page, and it gets deleted, then you only have yourselves to blame.
In the meantime, keep that team spirit momentum going as there is loads that needs to be worked upon to keep us all occupied throughout the year. Please remember to keep an eye on the project talk page as there are several active debates still taking place that require input from as many project members as possible. Some of you may also wish to join WikiProject Song, especially when the topic area we deal with surrounds itself primarily by songs. You never know, you may even pick up a few hints and tips from that project which will help you flourish as a Wikipedian editor. Also, encourage potential new members to the project by posting {{subst:EurovisionInvite}} (which will produced this template) on their talk pages. If you would like something to appear in the next edition of Eurovision Monthly, then please inform us at the Project Newsdesk.
There are still a handful of newly created articles that are not being tagged {{WikiProject Eurovision}} on their respective talk pages. Can we please make sure that when we create a new article that the talk page is also created, What one needs to remember is that even creating the article's talk page goes towards your edit count which in turn builds up your experience in the Wikipedia community. More information on assessment can be found at WP:COUNCIL/AFAQ and Wikipedia:WikiProject Eurovision/Assessment.
A few problems are still being repeated too, with articles having unsourced content being added. And there have also been severe BLP violations and unsourced changes to dates of birth. We need to be 100% air-tight with sourcing and what we add when dealing with BLP articles. So be warned that you could face sanctions for violating BLP policies.
A few project discussion still requiring input from members. Please visit Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision and contribute to which ever ones take your fancy.
Requests for a few new articles have been submitted to the newsroom, if anyone would like to help then here are the list of articles. Eurovision Cup participants remember that you can earn points towards your current scores for creating these articles.
Project Eurovision Cup is already in full-swing. As of 15 March 2015, Jjj1238 is the current leader with 96 points. But anything can happen before the March contest concludes on 31 March. However, registration for the next Eurovision Cup is already open, with the deadline set for 23:59, 1 April2015 (BST (UTC+1)). From 1 April, the cup will run for a 3-month period, to allow participants the chance to get articles nominated/reviewed for GA, A and FA classification. Anyone who has registered for the March contest will automatically keep their registration - until they decide to withdraw from the contest.
From 1 April, participants have the chance to earn bonus points for completing specific tasks.
The ABU Radio Song Festival 2015 takes place on 29 May 2015. The participation deadline has already passed. So if any of our members who live within the ABU region are able to find reliable source to help update the article with participant information, then your help would be truly appreciated.
So far only Turkey have confirmed participation for the ABU TV Song Festival 2015. Again, if any of our members who live within the ABU region are able to find reliable source to help update the article with participant information, then your help would be truly appreciated.
Fourty countries have been confirmed as partaking in 2015; full details can be found here. Australia have been invited by the EBU and host broadcaster ORF as a wildcard entry to mark the 60th Anniversary celebrations. Bookmakers Paddy Power have Sweden as favourites (9-4) to win the contest in May, with Italy (3-1) and Estonia (4-1) closely behind. Débutantes, Australia are fourth favourites standing at 7-1 (as of 17 March 2015).
Elin Angharad won the 2015 edition of Cân i Gymru, with the song "Y Lleuad a'r Sêr" (The Moon and the Stars). Are any of our Welsh speaking members able to help the project expand on this topic finding sources and creating annual articles? Or even expanding on the main article itself?
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