Project News

• We now have a brand new PROJECT MAIN PAGE !!! Check it out.
• More people need to reply to questions on talk pages. Other users need our help!
• There is still a discussion under way on what this project should include. Currently, consensus is forming that the project should include the Eurovision Song Contest and the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, but not the Eurovision Dance Contest. Tell us your thoughts at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision#Project Scope.
• There is currently a backlog of assessments; the project's assessment rate stands at 36.2%. Please add {{ EurovisionNotice}} to the talk pages of all Eurovision related articles if it is missing and read Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment if you would like to help assess the articles as well.
• In the coming days/weeks, instructions for the use of all Eurovision templates and descriptions for the layouts of pages will be up and running. As of now, a few templates are already complete: see {{ ESC National Year}} and {{ Infobox ESC entry}}.
• Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was listed as a " Good Article"
• Remember to source all information you add to pages or else it may be removed. ESCToday and Oikotimes are great places to find information.

Eurovision News

• Georgia withdrew from the 2009 contest because of the war in South Ossetia.
• Major changes have been announced for Melodifestivalen 2009.

Member News

• The project currently has 41 members, 22 of which are considered active. This means that nearly half of our project's members have not edited a Eurovision article in the past two months.
• We now have a project invitation. 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 August. (alphabetical order)

• Bib ( talk · contribs)
• Brideshead ( talk · contribs)
• Chrisethebest ( talk · contribs)
• Gottago ( talk · contribs)
• Irlandija ( talk · contribs)
• João P. M. Lima ( talk · contribs)

From the Members

Welcome to the second issue of the WikiProject Eurovision newsletter! This newsletter has been quite a success so far and I hope it continues to be so. I hope to rotate as much as possible who writes this "From the Members" section each month so everyone gets a chance to contribute.

The process of fully reorganising this project is still under way. A compromise is being formed to re-name this project WikiProject Eurovision Song Contest, but allow it to include the Junior Eurovision Song Contest as it is similar. The Eurovision Dance Contest will have its own project created simultaneously. I personally agree with this proposal, a final decision has not been made yet however.

Issue relating to Eurovision can be complicated and disagreements do form. This was particularly shown in the aftermath of Kosovo's declaration of independence and the creation of a Kosovo in the Eurovision Song Contest article, there is still discussion on the talk page over its inclusion. A further disagreement was formed over a proposed merger to Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest. This has fortunately been resolved by the Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal as recorded at Talk:Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest/Archive 1. Hopefully future disagreements will also be resolved in such a peaceful way.

Happy editing, Camaron