Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Song Contests

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Has this project any subpages that discuss sources deemed (un)reliable? I am specifically wondering about eurovoix, as it keeps coming up in talk pages and I’m not sure how I should treat it when responding. Slomo666 (talk) 18:21, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

@Slomo666: You can find that here. Grk1011 (talk) 00:26, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. Slomo666 (talk) 22:37, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi there! I wanted to propose a new format for [[Junior Eurovision Song Contest [[Year]] ]] articles. In the Participants section for ESC , at the top a template is usually given which has links to all of the [[ [[Country]] in the ESC [[Year]] ]] articles for that specific year. Now for JESC, all the links are found either on the map or the ''Country'' Column. However keeping in mind the fact that some countries follow internal selections , release little to no information about their selection ^[a] are often redirected to the main, [[ [[Country]] in JESC]] pages. Now this can often create confusion to new Wikipedia users. I have had this experience when I first started to use Wikipedia as a reliable source. And, I think not that many people use the map either and even if they do its a mixture of links to both redirects and proper articles. For e.g. if a person wants to view the [[ [[Country]] in JESC]] article however, they open the link and insted have to view the [[ [[Country]] in the JESC [[Year]] ]] article instead. So, for an easier experience we can create and add templates for the Participation Summaries in which we can link to the articles that are actually not redirected and just not link to the redirects. And then, we can link the map and the ''Country'' column links to the [[ [[Country]] in JESC]] articles .

Thanks! Eurofan 1235688 (talk) 07:24, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

Should we expand/improve this article? There seems to be a significant amount of information available in newspaper archives. Fort esc (talk) 19:52, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

In what has become a yearly tradition, I am back with the proposal that automatic qualifiers should be included in the semi-final tables. As they are a part of the show, presented as any other competing country, with the exception of people at the end of the evening not being able to vote for them. They are a significant part of the show and have a big impact on the running order, and the EBU has presented them as such each year. One of the reasons why voting can open at the start of the final is "that all songs have been seen in the semi-finals", so surely, all songs should be present in the tables?

Below, I present what that would look like for SF1, following the show:

More information R/O, Country ...

First semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
1	Moldova	Satoshi	"Viva, Moldova!"	3	100
2	Sweden	Felicia	"My System"	14	2
3	Croatia	Lelek	"Andromeda"	1	102
4	Greece	Akylas	"Ferto"	6	76
5	Portugal	Bandidos do Cante	"Rosa"	13	5
6	Georgia	Bzikebi	"On Replay"	10	40
–	Italy	Sal da Vinci	"Per sempre sì"	Prequalified
7	Finland	Linda Lampenius and Pete Parkkonen	"Liekinheitin"	11	35
8	Montenegro	Tamara Živković	"Nova zora"	2	101
9	Estonia	Vanilla Ninja	"Too Epic to Be True"	12	16
10	Israel	Noam Bettan	"Michelle"	15	0
–	Germany	Sarah Engels	"Fire"	Prequalified
11	Belgium	Essyla	"Dancing on the Ice"	4	93
12	Lithuania	Lion Ceccah	"Sólo quiero más"	7	72
13	San Marino	Senhit	"Superstar"	5	78
14	Poland	Alicja	"Pray"	8	71
15	Serbia	Lavina	"Kraj mene"	9	69

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— IмSтevan ^talk 18:41, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

Firstly, I'd like to preface this with an acknowledgement that I appreciate I have not been very active on Wikipedia of late, my personal life has gotten in the way of things of late, but I'm hoping to get back to contributing more regularly in the next couple of weeks and months. I hope that won't stop anyone from discounting my thoughts on this topic though. Essentially, my opinion has not changed on this topic and I still believe it makes things more confusing for the reader overall. Additionally, yes the EBU will include the AQs in graphics related to the running order at this stage before the event, but they themselves don't even include them in graphics during the semi-final broadcasts, not did they include them in the history pages of the events on the previous website (eurovision.tv). As I believe was mentioned in previous discussions on this, these are essentially mid-running order interval acts, which before 2024 were very rare but not totally unheard of (I believe they might have had an interval in the middle of the competing acts in one of the 50s contests); for me the main purpose of these tables is to show the results of those events, so adding line entries for acts that are not competing or receiving points is in my opinion redundant. mdeire (formerly Sims2aholic8) (talk) 18:45, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

1958, to be more precise ;-)

My opinion hasn't changed either. I understand the wish to include these already qualified entries, especially with the fact that they are presented in a similar way complete with postcards. But in the end, they are not competing in the semi-finals, and we don't include opening acts or other interval acts either in the table since it is not a chronological report of performances of the show but a results table of the songs that were in competition in the semis. EurovisionLibrarian (talk) 18:43, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

I mean, at that point, we shouldn't really include the running order either. We include it because its relevant information to the flow of the show, it impacts the results and makes the contest easier to follow and discuss about before, during, and after the contest. This would do the same. I guess see you all next year so we can do this again — IмSтevan ^talk 03:46, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Agree with MD and Librarian. The table shows the entries that are competing in the semi-final. Grk1011 (talk) 17:45, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

With the recent updates to Eurovision.com, it appears that the ESC2020 entries are now counted towards the total for each country (see here for the example in Sweden). Should this now also apply to Wikipedia entries concerning 2020? Pdhadam (talk) 16:38, 22 April 2026 (UTC)