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WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter - August 2009
Note: the Newsletter is "collapsed" for convenience. To see the full letter, click on the "show" button at the right end of the gray bar.
There has been some
discussion on if a monthly newsletter is viable. The current result is not clear, though it appears for the time being months will simply be skipped as necessary when project activity is low.
There has been a heated
debate on how to deal with criticism and controversy in Eurovision Song Contest article, with a proposal made to re-organise articles to avoid dedicated "controversy" and "criticism" sections in order to have maximum
neutral point of view policy compliance.
The
RTL Group has declared that they are seriously considering a return of
Luxembourg to the Eurovision Song Contest for 2010.
Azerbaijan's participation in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest has been put in doubt following
controversial actions which are believed to have occurred after the
2009 Contest. Azerbaijan has denied that any questioning of individuals over voting in the contest has occurred.
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of the WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter!
August 2009 will not be remembered as a good month for WikiProject Eurovision. The number of this newsletter might have something to do with it, other possible explanations include circumstances, time of year, and even just coincidence. In any case we have had no new members and no further GA or FA article promotions.
The demotion of
Eurovision Song Contest, probably the most important article on the project, was a historic blow. Reasons for this and other demotions in recent months include an inflation of article standards, article deterioration through inappropriate edits, and possibly inappropriate promotions in some cases.
We should remember however that despite these demotions we still have 2 FAs, 9 GAs, and 41 B-class articles, as well as 2 Featured Lists. This is a big achievement for a project with only 75 members, a small amount compared to other projects. To compare
WikiProject Schools has 292 members with no newsletter, and
WikiProject Video games has a massive 1,298 members with only a quarterly newsletter.
This project will likely be disadvantaged for a long time to come with limited membership and fluctuating activity during the year, but it will grow out of this blip.
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 August 16, we are at 12.24%, with 527 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.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the months of September.
Bryan Danielson won the
PWG World Championship by defeating
Chris Hero, but immediately vacated it due to being unable to defend the title after signing with WWE. A tournament will be held to determine the new champion in November.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the
Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
If making a controversial change, or one that will affect a wide range of article, please gain
consensus from the project first.
Please familiarize yourself with the general
notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
Refer to
WP:NC during the process of renaming an article, if a name does not adhere to these guidelines,
be bold and move the article to the correct target name. If there is a
naming conflict, follow the steps to a resolution or discuss the move on the project's talk page.
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 10%. As of September 27, we are at 12.08%, with 525 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.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of October.
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.
Be aware of
words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
This page is an
archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.
WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter - August 2009
Note: the Newsletter is "collapsed" for convenience. To see the full letter, click on the "show" button at the right end of the gray bar.
There has been some
discussion on if a monthly newsletter is viable. The current result is not clear, though it appears for the time being months will simply be skipped as necessary when project activity is low.
There has been a heated
debate on how to deal with criticism and controversy in Eurovision Song Contest article, with a proposal made to re-organise articles to avoid dedicated "controversy" and "criticism" sections in order to have maximum
neutral point of view policy compliance.
The
RTL Group has declared that they are seriously considering a return of
Luxembourg to the Eurovision Song Contest for 2010.
Azerbaijan's participation in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest has been put in doubt following
controversial actions which are believed to have occurred after the
2009 Contest. Azerbaijan has denied that any questioning of individuals over voting in the contest has occurred.
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of the WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter!
August 2009 will not be remembered as a good month for WikiProject Eurovision. The number of this newsletter might have something to do with it, other possible explanations include circumstances, time of year, and even just coincidence. In any case we have had no new members and no further GA or FA article promotions.
The demotion of
Eurovision Song Contest, probably the most important article on the project, was a historic blow. Reasons for this and other demotions in recent months include an inflation of article standards, article deterioration through inappropriate edits, and possibly inappropriate promotions in some cases.
We should remember however that despite these demotions we still have 2 FAs, 9 GAs, and 41 B-class articles, as well as 2 Featured Lists. This is a big achievement for a project with only 75 members, a small amount compared to other projects. To compare
WikiProject Schools has 292 members with no newsletter, and
WikiProject Video games has a massive 1,298 members with only a quarterly newsletter.
This project will likely be disadvantaged for a long time to come with limited membership and fluctuating activity during the year, but it will grow out of this blip.
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 August 16, we are at 12.24%, with 527 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.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the months of September.
Bryan Danielson won the
PWG World Championship by defeating
Chris Hero, but immediately vacated it due to being unable to defend the title after signing with WWE. A tournament will be held to determine the new champion in November.
This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the
Manual of Style and general editing tips.
Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
If making a controversial change, or one that will affect a wide range of article, please gain
consensus from the project first.
Please familiarize yourself with the general
notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
Refer to
WP:NC during the process of renaming an article, if a name does not adhere to these guidelines,
be bold and move the article to the correct target name. If there is a
naming conflict, follow the steps to a resolution or discuss the move on the project's talk page.
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 10%. As of September 27, we are at 12.08%, with 525 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.
This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of
vandalism and
speculation: professional wrestling events from major
promotions for the month of October.
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.
Be aware of
words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.