Project News

• More people need to reply to questions on talk pages. Other users need our help!
• The discussion of what to include in the project is still ongoing. Tell us your thoughts at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision#Project Scope.
• The backlog of assessments in the project is still ongoing, with a large number of articles not being rated or tagged with the project banner. If you see articles without the {{ EurovisionNotice}} template on the article's talk page, please add it, or read Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment if you would like to help assess the articles as well. Only 37.7% of articles have been assessed so far.
• Instructions for the use of all Eurovision templates and descriptions for the layouts of pages are still in the works. Please note that {{ Esc}} has been developed from an {{ Inesc}} and is ready for use. Replace any use of the older template with the new one.
• 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

• The first annual Asiavision Song Contest has been announced and the 2009 contest will take place next summer.
• De Toppers were announced as the Dutch entry for the 2009 contest.
• Estonia announced its participation in the 2009 contest, despite requests by the Estonian Minister of Culture to withdraw due to the 2008 war in South Ossetia.
• Melodifestivalen 2009 broke a record with 3,440 songs sent in.
• Slovakia announced its return to the contest after an 11-year absence.
• The Bulgarian national final, " Be A Star", will start October 2 with 45 songs.

Member News

• The project currently has 48 members, 22 of which are considered active. This means that 26 of our project's members have not edited a Eurovision article in the past month.
• 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 September. (by date joined)

• LukaP ( talk · contribs)
• Pr3st0n ( talk · contribs)
• Chrisportelli2 ( talk · contribs)
• Montehermoso-spain ( talk · contribs)
• Bearas ( talk · contribs)
• Carlos MS ( talk · contribs)
• Blanche Hunt ( talk · contribs)

From the Members

Welcome to the third edition of the WikiProject Eurvision newsletter! This newsletter is surely catching on, and I'm sure that if we continue to rotate the editors' section as much as possible, everyone'll get a chance to contribute and it'll definitely be more diverse.

The project is still in need of re-organising. Nothing has happened in the form of splitting the project between the song and dance contests in over a month, and I feel that we really need to push forward with this. To add your comments just leave a message in the talk page Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision#Project Scope.

Throughout September, a lot of things have happened in relation to the Eurovision Song Contest 2009; the announcement of the return of the jury into the final was the biggest news. However, more news appeared, such as the Dutch representative being announced, as well as more countries announcing their participation at the contest. Before long the national finals around Europe will start, and the countdown will be on to 16 May.

With everything that's been happening, I'd like to encourage everyone to do their best to contribute to all Eurovision-related Wikipedia articles, and welcome our new members to the project.

Happy editing, Sims2aholic8

Page Milestones

• " Bandido", Greece in the ESC 2005, and Helga Vlahović were featured as DYKs.
• Ireland in the ESC 2008 and Greece in the ESC 2005 are awaiting their Good Article reviews.

Requests

• Is there an article you think we should have? Make a request for it to be made here.