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Probably a stupid question, but...
...is there any way I can join the Wikicup even though I missed the sign-up deadline by a day? I honestly didn't know about it until now. :( Let me know. — HunterKahn(
c)13:55, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
Excellent, I'd like to be the
Flag of Pennsylvania, which I don't believe is taken yet. By the way, my username is misspelled "Hunter Khan" on the page, it should be "Hunter Kahn". :) I didn't know if I should fix the name and add the flag myself or not. If I should, just let me know and I'll do it. Thanks! — HunterKahn(
c)20:57, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
Can I bother you with just one quick clarification question? I've not previously been familiar with the Wikicup contest (hence my late start here) and I think I understand the rules, but wanted to just make sure. The rules say "Content must have been worked on and nominated during the competition". I'm taking this to mean that I wouldn't be able to submit my
Subway (Homicide: Life on the Street) for a FA if it
passes the current FAC, since I nominated it on Dec. 30, and did most of the work long before that anyway. However, what if I nominated something for GAN that I worked on in December and January? For example, I've nominated
Parks and Recreation (season 1) for GA on Jan. 2, and did most of the work between Dec. 6 and Jan. 2. If it passes, I won't be able to submit it, right? Furthermore, if that passes, I'm going to seek a Good Topic for that season and its six episodes, (which are already GAs from my previous work). If that passes, will I be able to submit that, or will I be unable to because most of the GAs passed in 2009? Sorry to be a pest, I promise I'll stop asking questions after this! :) — HunterKahn(
c)21:18, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
...I've got a reply from the AC, and they have said that the user concerned will not be able to proceed as they suggested. I'm happy to forward the emails to you if you're interested.
J Milburn (
talk)
01:42, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
WikiCup
I see that you get points for DYK. Do you have to write it your self, and some-one else (or youself) nominates it, or do can you nominated some-one elses and get the points that way?
Clyde1998 (
talk·contribs)
21:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
I hope you're not buried under a Ben Nevis-sized mountain of snow up there. If your hands can reach a keyboard, I'd appreciate a look at the
Shortlist Music Prize FLC. It's my first time and I know how you like those lists. Don't worry too much about Is This It, it's got enough feedback. RB88 (
T)
01:55, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter - November and December 2009
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Happy Christmas and new year from WikiProject Eurovision.
This is the second edition of the newsletter to be in a
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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.
Just listened to LC!. It's pretty good, but tbh I wouldn't give it more than 8/10 so far. You heard it yet? Also what do you think of the new and improved Silent Alarm article? (Message me an email address of yours, I've got a proposition). ;) PRB88 (
T)
11:45, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Great. I'll tie up a few loose ends and let you know. As for LC!, yeah maturity is great but I do miss the Arcade-Fire-high-on-cola. (Fair trade of course.) Although if they end up making a Funeral quality album in the future, I'll worship at the altar. PRB88 (
T)
16:44, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Told ya, it's like a Shakespearean play told through art-pop. My next tip is Delorean's Ayrton Senna EP. Imagine if LC! had gone to Ibiza instead of Seattle. RB88 (
T)
14:56, 30 January 2010 (UTC)