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Happy editing!Wes

Project News

• Lynsey de Paul (United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977) died 1 October 2014.
• A fact fromEurovision Young Musicians 1982 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 12 October 2014.
• A couple of debates are taking place via theProject talk page. If anyone would like to share their views or opinions, then please click on on of the following threads to participate.
  • Navigational boxes reform (again)
  • Notability of OGAE Contests and whether sources specialising in Eurovision content "count" towards notability
  • Expert attention required.
  • Notability of underage performers.

Article alerts

The followingalerts require the attention from as many project members as possible.

• Category:Eurovision Young Musicians by year
• Requested page move of Breaking My Heart (song)

Requests for new articles

A request for the creation of quite a long list of new articles has been postedvia the Newsdesk. Anyone who wishes to volunteer in creating these new articles may do so. A selection of some from that list are as follows:

• Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961
• Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961
• Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961
• Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961
• Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998

Article news

ABU TV Song FestivalsMacau2014

• The third edition of the annual ABU TV Song Festival takes place later this week. Participants from twelve countries will take part in the non-competitive gala showcase.

Junior Eurovision Song ContestMalta2014

• The twelfth edition will see sixteen countries taking part in the Mediterranean island of Malta next month. All representatives and their songs have been selected and presented to the Steering Group.

Türkvizyon Song ContestKazan2014

• The second contest takes place in November. Iran is the latest country to announce their début into the contest.

Intervision Song ContestSochi2015

• There's no latest news regarding this contest.

Eurovision Song ContestVienna2015

• The contest may be a matter of months away, but the national selection season starts in November when Malta and Macedonia choose their representatives for Vienna.

See also

• ABU Radio Song Festival
• Cân i Gymru
• Eurovision Dance Contest
• Eurovision Young Dancers
• Eurovision Young Musicians
• OGAE Second Chance Contest
• OGAE Video Contest

• If you would like something to appear in the next edition of Eurovision Monthly, then please inform us at theProject Newsdesk.
• If there is an article you think we should have? Request ithere.

Maintenance tasks
The following is a list of some selected ProjectEurovision-related articles that need some extensive improvement work doing them.
Add sources

• Armenia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
• France in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011
• Skonto Hall(ESC 2003 venue)
• Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep(Dutch broadcaster)

Clean up

• Lane moje(ESC 2004)
• Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006
• Refrain (Lys Assia song)(ESC 1956)
• Nadezhda Misyakova(JESC 2014)

Expand

• Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012
• Dansk Melodi Grand Prix

Merge

• Kombank Arena(ESC 2008)

Wikify

• Christina Schilling(ESC 2009)
• Maxim Fadeev(ESC 2004)

Orphan

• Boom Bang-a-Bang: 50 Years of Eurovision

Stubs

• Großer Sendesaal des hessischen Rundfunks(ESC 1957 venue)
• Albania in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
• B&W Hallerne(ESC 2014 venue)
• Betty (singer)(JESC 2014)
• Josie Zec(JESC 2014)

Statistics

Song Contests articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				1			1
FL		1	2				3
GA	6	39	168	12			225
B	2	25	44	46			117
C	6	121	751	302			1,180
Start	28	234	961	1,519		1	2,743
Stub	1	20	492	866		1	1,380
List			16	6			22
Category					637		637
Disambig					6		6
File					219		219
Portal					4		4
Project					115		115
Redirect	2	6	957	393	635		1,993
Template					465		465
Other	1			1	10		12
Assessed	46	446	3,391	3,146	2,091	2	9,122
Unassessed		1				1	2
Total	46	447	3,391	3,146	2,091	3	9,124
WikiWork factors (?)		ω =27,516			Ω = 4.87

On 20 October 2014 the proportion of all articles with an assessed project banner was:

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