Talk:Eurovision Song Contest 2008/Archive 5

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Logos

Out of curiousity, why has the coat of arms not been included in the Serbian flag in any of the logos? Is it because it's too detailed to work on-screen/in print? (I'm talking about the official logos, not just the ones here). Martin Leng (talk) 20:50, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

While I'm thinking about logos, could we use this as the article header instead? The current logo is no longer accurate as it has been "refined" by RTS to the one I have uploaded. Martin Leng (talk) 20:58, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

I think that the one on the page should stay, it's a PNG format and it is from eurovision.tv the main organisers of the contest. Your image if I remember comes from the TV broadcast. I am also curious why the CoA is not on the flag, the one in use now has been modified and the CoA is no longer there, but that red is wrong. --AxG @ ►talk 21:11, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

My image is also from eurovision.tv, on this page. Note how the design of the official site has changed to include parts of this logo (you can tell as the liquid effect is far more realistic than before). I see your point about the PNG, but other years have far lower quality JPGs and so I feel this is acceptable. Of course that's just my opinion, but I feel all of an article - including images - should be as current and accurate as possible. Martin Leng (talk) 21:32, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

I think that the image needs the Eurovision Heart logo, as this is also the main logo of the contest as well, and I think that the new logo should be uploaded on the main logo on the page, and with transparency, instead of changing the image name on the article. --AxG @ ►talk 21:42, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

I'll leave you guys to act on this as I don't want to cause a rift, so if anyone wants to edit the image to include the heart logo then that would be good. Martin Leng (talk) 21:44, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Stage image

I'm not sure if it's necessary (the current stage image is up for deletion at the moment) but there's a better quality pic of the stage here, which doesn't feature a worryingly large logo in the bottom corner, as the current image does. I think a decent-quality rendering of the stage design is a useful addition, at least until the real thing is built in May. Chwech 22:47, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

I've added it on the article.--Robotico2 (talk) 19:46, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Broadcast of ESC in Italy

I have a source about ESC in Italy... [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.18.194.3 (talk) 09:08, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! I'll add that to the article now. Chwech 16:26, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Why sources on languages?

I don't believe there's a need to confirm in what language a song will be presented, it's never been done before so there's no need to do it now.. Plus the reference to the 2 words in Russian/2 words in Spanish for the Maltese and Belarusian entry respectivelly is also unnecessary. A footnote will be better for them. I'd put it I just don't know how. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.146.135.55 (talk) 08:22, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Removed Hanne Hoftun as commentator

As I can't seem to find any official statements that she will become Norway's next commentator, I removed her from the list of commentators. - Jetro (talk) 19:31, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

About the map: To include Kosovo

Since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia last month and it's been recognized by over 30 countries worldwide. Don't you think it's borders outside Serbia should be draw? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tony0106 (talk • contribs)

The situation regarding Kosovo is still in quite a state of flux, and until the situation becomes a little clearer I think any change to the map is premature. Kosovo is probably unique in Europe being the only nation not subject to (near) universal recognition, and I perceive this be an unstable situation which will resolve itself over the coming months.
In terms of Eurovision specifically will residents of Kosovo be eligible to vote? Have they in previous contests. Does the independence of Kosovo actually have the potential to affect the contest? --Neo (talk) 10:21, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

The situation in Kosovo doesn't affect the contest at all.. They've been broadcasting the show but they have never voted. I'm just saying it should be included in the map outside of Serbia as a non-participant. It's been recognized by 30+ countries is pending approval from around 10. Israel is not recognized by over 30 countries too. So it shouldn't be included in the map, because of that? They declared independence, the Wikipedia map for Europe includes Kosovo, why not the ESC Map, too? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.146.135.55 (talk) 05:53, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes I think you are right,the Kosovo independence will not have an affect to the contest,except that Albanian entry will probably be boycotted as everyone knows.However if we include Kosovo,then we should also include on the map:Nagorno Karabach,South Ossetia and Abkhazia since they are out of control from their countries. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.161.76.219 (talk) 12:44, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Kosovo was left out of the map per this map at the official Eurovision 2008 site, and although that's not a fantastic reference it's the best official one we have. The point about Israel is moot; if Kosovo was an EBU member state participating in this year's contest they would be on the map, without a doubt. That's not the case, though. Ditto regarding the Europe article: there are several maps there, less than half of which include Kosovo. Chwech 16:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
It could also be argued that the map represents the situation at the end of the period of eligability for entry, which is (as I understand it) back in November, and that updating the map would be anachronistic (akin to, for instance, including an independent Ukraine on a pre 1990 map of Eurovision entry). --Neo (talk) 18:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

As long as Kosovo does not participate, the colour on the map should indicate that as well: Right now it seems that Kosovo participates in a semi-final. The colour of Kosovo should therefore be the colour that is used for Austria, Slovakia or Italy. 213.47.219.86 (talk) 11:55, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm not actually surprised the map doesn't include Kosovo - the Contest is being held in Serbia, and they don't recognise Kosovo has being independent. (Watch the voting tomorrow night - the map that shows Serbia when it's their turn to vote will show Kosovo has being part of Serbia.) DitzyNizzy (aka Jess) (talk) 14:57, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

French Controversy

I think that the French Language Choice Controvesy needs to be addressed and put on the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 main page which is like the 1969 Tie breaker controversy which was adressed and i think this needs to be addressed as well —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adamml13 (talk • contribs) 18:25, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

But that was an important part of the contest's history, the French controversy isn't really...--Robotico2 (talk) 17:16, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

External Links

I added the eurovisionserbia.tv website because it is an official website by the host broadcaster RTS.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.161.76.219 (talk)

Radio Broadcasts

Do we need to write down all the radio broadcasts since I know when i was in my country,Radio Beograd,Radio Sarajevo and Radio Skopje all broadcasted the event?Does EBU make it obligatory for the radio members to broadcast the contest???—Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.161.76.219 (talk)

Language of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro entries

There seems to be a bit of dispute/slow motion edit war, motley between unregistered users, on the language of the Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro entries. For example, Montenegro's has gone from Serbian -> Montenegrin -> Serbian. Bosnia and Herzegovina's has gone from Serbo-Croation -> Bosnian -> Serbo-Croation. Looking at the article Serbo-Croatian language, this seems to be a controversial, however the changes back and forth are clogging up the edit history, so I would like this to be resolved. Does anybody have any suggestions on what it should say the language is for these entries? Camaron | Chris (talk) 18:57, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Assuming that each song is intended to be sung in the native vernacular (i.e. it isn't like France choosing to sing a song in Catalan, in which case Serbian may be the correct term) then the question comes as to whether each represents a language or a dialect. If each is a language, the one should list the common name of the language (i.e. Bosnian, Montenegrin). If they instead represent dialects, then the question can be translated - would we list Provençal or Occitan, or in another case, Valencian or Catalan, then it is a more complicated issue.
What I would like to say is that we should list the dialect name, but I'm not sure that I would agree in all cases. I would not wish to attempt to make a determination of the correct course of action in this case. --Neo (talk) 19:23, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Well I am not hugely familiar with dialects and languages of Eastern Europe, but I get the impression this is more about the name of the language - with a political dispute occurring on the name. Personally I think using the names local to the entry may be most appropriate, so that would be Bosnian and Montenegrin. Camaron | Chris (talk) 19:32, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
The Bosnian entry is in the Bosnian language.
This year's Bosnian performer Elvir Lakovic better known as Laka says so twice himself in an interview in the following video. [[2]]—Preceding unsigned comment added by Zec (talk • contribs)
Just a thought - if the Montenegrin entry is in Serbian, why does the page about the song link to a page which says the lyrics are in Montenegrin? DitzyNizzy (aka Jess) (talk) 19:14, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
it is not official page. Booth languages should be included. Vladar86 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 23:39, 20 May 2008 (UTC) \
When America starts speaking American and Australia Australian and New Zealand New Zealandic then Bosnia can have Bosnian and Montenegro Montenegrin. I recall that you need 80% of a difference in 2 languages for them to be called two languages otherwise they are dialects of a single language which is Serbian. Before the Montenegrin independence they spoke Serbian. Just because they become independent they dont start speaking a different language.
The song is in Montenegrin here it says that the Montenegrin song will be performed in their official language. According to the CIA World Factbook found here the official language of Montenegro is Montenegrin. However, if some people will consider it a dialect. Dialects are also permitted to perform in Eurovision as happend with Italy in 1991, Austria in 2002 and Estonia in 2004. So I dont think we should have further discussions on this issue Tony0106 (talk) 21:21, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Spokespersons

Guys,can you please tell me whether Linda Martin,Selma,Jonatan and Eva are confirmed as from the broadcasters? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.161.76.219 (talk) 12:07, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Éva Novodomszky for Hungary is confirmed. But there's only Hungarian source so far: http://eschungary.hu/news/2008/belgrad2008_mtv_musor.html The article writes about the commentator (Gábor Gundel Takács-just like last year), spokesperson (Éva) and that Hungary will broadcast only the second semi and only a recap of the first semi will be shown before it. Mb731 (talk) 11:12, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Spokespersons and commentors

Because, I don't know how ti inform you, the Macedonian Spokesperson for Eurovision Song Contest - Belgrade 2008 is Ognen JaneskiItalic text, a 21 year old Anchorman at the National TV of Macedonia...

A bold IP address has replaced the spokespersons and commentators sections with a table, also removing large amounts of sourced content. Previous consensus (Talk:Eurovision_Song_Contest_2008/Archive_3#About_Commentator.2FSpokepersons) was that simple list was better and a section named "Commentators/Spokespersons" section was awkward. So I am reverting this to an agreement is reached here. I for one, prefer a simple list and seperate sections. Camaron | Chris (talk) 16:30, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I support simple list and seperate sections too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.161.76.219 (talk) 02:49, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

68.146.135.55 (talk · contribs) appears to have ignored my suggestion to discuss the issue on the talk page and has just decided to re-insert the table against apparent consensus. I have reverted it again per above, though I have tried to avoid overwriting any good faith edits. If this user attempts to insert the table again, I will not revert it again to avoid getting into an edit war. I am going to give this user a clear warning and leave a note in the article of this discussion however. Camaron | Chris (talk) 10:24, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

As you can see from the previous talk on this subject, I support the separate sections with a list. The table just makes it look messy. Greekboy (talk) 18:10, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
I reverted the IP address' edit again. I think that puts him over the 3 RR rule now. I did not know if I should leave a message on the users page or not. Greekboy (talk) 03:42, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your help. I have given this user a final warning. Even if s/he adds in a table a forth time (currently the number is three times, with 2 reverts by me, and 1 by you) it is not a technical violation of 3RR as the gap between this users edits is to large. However, this user has been warned enough times and been informed that edit warring is bad, and is clearly one person running against past consensus - so if this user reverts in the table again, I think a block is justified. As I am involved I cannot take any administrative action against this user, so I am going to request assistance from The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) who is neutral but knows about this article and myself well. The other option is some kind of page protection, but I don't think that would be appropriate in this case. Camaron | Chris (talk) 09:18, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
As I was just writing my message to the The Rambling Man, this happens [3]. Well I will just wait for his response now. Camaron | Chris (talk) 09:37, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Note that this IP address has now been blocked for 55 hours. Camaron | Chris (talk) 19:51, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

I think that now everything is well written.All the sources are there,and all the informations are correct.After checking on the internet,and on the forums,I put the Danish and Belarussian spokesperson as they are confirmed by the broadcasters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.161.76.219 (talk) 03:01, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Could you please add Kārlis Streips (LTV) as a commentator from Latvia? Thank you very much. --Ivario (talk) 13:06, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Chart Positions

I took out the Chart Positions section. It looks a bit messy to me, and also you can find all that info by clicking song titles. I didn't think that the information about chart positions were really that necessary on this main page. Greekboy (talk) 03:42, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Well done Greekboy,thats the place where the chart positions should be,and not on the main page.Put all the chart positions on the songs names. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.161.76.219 (talk) 03:53, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

It has been re-added by the same IP address. I am going to take it out again per above and notify the user to come here and discuss it. Camaron | Chris (talk) 19:50, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Can also outlast the main page by some length. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mika2008 (talk • contribs) 12:32, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Broadcasting of ESC in Spain

Here's about the ESC on TVE, spanish broadcaster...

http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/11387

--87.6.176.184 (talk) 17:03, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Broadcasting of ESC in Ukraine

Broadcasting of ESC in Ukraine - UT1 (Ukraine) URL: http://www.1tv.com.ua/euro/eurovision/euronews/ Please add in article.

92.112.44.242 (talk) 20:51, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Page getting too long

So as I was trying to edit the finalists (however somebody do it for me, faster, thank u, lol) I kept receiving messages that the page was getting too long.. Do you guys have any suggestion on how to shorten the page? Why dont you get rid off the commentators and spokepersons? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tony0106 (talk • contribs)

I don't think it's too much of a problem - the message only related to editing and not to reading (as I understand it) and one can edit sections in any case; can't one? Plus the page is not likely to expand too much more is it? --Neil (talk) 08:51, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
I don't think its that bad either, a length message comes up if the page is over 30k in size just to let you know it is getting longer - the article has to get quite a lot longer before as message comes up suggesting you split up the article, try and edit the article United States for example. At present the article is 47k long, according to Wikipedia:Article size, article size is not to much a cause a concern unless the page goes over 60k, and division is not absolutely nessasery unless the page goes over 100k. Camaron | Chris (talk) 09:18, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Off course, it is likely to expand.. There are yet 3 scoreboards to publish and the pictures which are far way more important than the spokepersons/commentators, which for me are incoherent and look very messy with the list (and with the table too). Why can't we get rid off them? How can I make a motion to ask how many people want those sections?

A lot of the results will be just additions to the existing tables. The gallery issue is easily solved, just create one of these:
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Camaron | Chris (talk) 08:59, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

What about the scoreboards? You only put 3 pictures there are 40 to go. Seriously, why don't you guys eliminate the commentators/spokepersons. It is a disasterTony0106 (talk) 17:19, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Scoreboards and what's been added to Eurovision Song Contest 2007 should not have the article exceed 60kb hopefully, which is fine. I am not sure how a generally well sourced section is a "disaster". I strongly disagree with removing it to create huge galleries - a few selected pictures are good, but galleries are primarily covered by the commons project and link is provided; I do not understand how they could be so essential in Wikipedia articles that they should be at the expense of encyclopaedic material. If space is an issue, which is still in itself debatable, I do not think galleries should have priority for inclusion. Camaron | Chris (talk) 21:31, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
It looks like a disaster and is not well sourced at all, there are tons of spokepersons with the "citation needed" plus the commentators from Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Israel, Moldova and Ukraine are missing. And how come the commentators and spokepersons are more important than pictures of the singers? I mean if they were the spokepersons of their national jury, as it used to be before 2003, then they should be included but they are just random people announcing the televoting results from a country. Commentators arent part of the show they just comment the show for the people that are watching it in their countries so there are not important at all. I ask for the removal of the commentators/spokepersons sections. Tony0106 (talk) 20:21, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
See my comments below. Camaron | Chris (talk) 20:51, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Song titles

As per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music), shouldn't we have the song titles in quotation marks ("")? TubularWorld (talk) 19:22, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, well spotted I think they should. Camaron | Chris (talk) 09:16, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
If you are referring to the table, then it seems like overkill (its perfectly clear that they are titles from the context), in the text I agree. --Neil (talk) 11:15, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Albanian Songtitle Translation

The real translation of Zemrën e lamë peng is We put our hearts at stake (which is similar to saying We glambed our hearts) as it appears on the diggiloo website [4]. The translation of the lyrics (as well as the songtitle off course) was done by native Albanian speakers so we can't argue with them. On the other hand, the Turkish title Deli is translated as Insane. Insane could be a synonym of Crazy but just like we have different words for it in English, French and Spanish we can also have them in Turkish. Refer to the diggiloo website: [5]Tony0106 (talk) 17:27, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

San Marino voting system

San Marino RTV announced on tv reports and during the live ESC broadcast that for technical reasons people from San Marino can't televote and in substitution to this there is a specific jury that is exercising San Marino's right to vote. They didn't tell which is this technical reason but there are two possibilities: 1. they want to avoid a flop like Monaco in past years (30,000 inhabitants doesn't mean that there will be 30,000 votes) 2. San Marino's cell phones have the Italian preselection number and this would mean that also Italians could vote (and this is impossible because of the regulation) - and concerning home phones I don't know if there is the possibility to apply a televote number only for San Marino because the Italian and San Marino network are both connected. Don't ask me if both Italy and San Marino would participate what could happen. SkafaTell me 21:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Interesting... feydey (talk) 22:42, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

So that's why they gave the UK some points! :) A jury vote can't be politically rigged... Ireland, of course, is our neighbour. Digifiend (talk) 11:37, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

No pictures of Serbia or Belgrade?

Has anyone ever seen such shit in all their lives? This has to be a first, atleast in recent years. All the hype leading to the event and not one "postcard". Shame on the bastards. Evlekis (talk) 20:54, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

This is not a forum or discussion board Welshleprechaun (talk) 19:26, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

edited by Sjc07 (Talk | contribs) at 01:51, 25 May 2008

Sjc07 changed the image from the Confluence of Sound thing to the image we have now. Did the user ask anyone to make sure if it was okay? I personally think the Confluence logo is better. It's more stylish AND it's not the first ESC page to have the theme on it (ESC 2006). I really would like to see if we should change it back. WestJet (talk) 05:37, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Graph

Would it be possible to produce a graph showing who which countries gave their points to,similair to the one about the article on last years' eurovision.if so could this be made as i feel this would be a good addition(Harry-fox (talk) 08:52, 25 May 2008 (UTC))

I agree. Just needs someone who's willing to do all the collating, designing and formatting - not a small job.--86.145.248.219 (talk) 09:17, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I also agree, this is really interesting information. But do we have a reliable source? (I didn't right all that down yesterday...)84.195.115.163 (talk) 10:27, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

I would do it myself but i don't know how to format it in graph form like that Harry-fox (talk) 10:39, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh here it is : [6] Can't you just click "Edit" on the page of the previous content, to see how they made that graph back thenEvilbu (talk) 10:43, 25 May 2008 (UTC)


I'll give it a go mate,but i'm not promising anything Harry-fox (talk) 14:49, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

It's on the german wikiepedia. Just copy and paste it then translate to english. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Meaty Weenies (talk • contribs) 21:10, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Error

There is writen for Serbia for beginners accompanied by Konstantin Kostjukov . its accomanied by Aleksandar Josipovic- Pegasus ( who was master of ceremony for that act ). http://blic.co.yu/zabava.php?id=42736 - on serbian

Gofzamen (talk) 09:54, 25 May 2008 (UTC)Gofzamen

Broadcast of semi-final in pre-qualified countries

The following sentences in the article implie that Germany and Spain only broadcast the first semi-final and that France, the UK and Serbia only broadcast the second one:

The following countries competed in two semi-finals which were broadcast live on Tuesday 20 May and Thursday 22 May 2008. In addition to this, automatic finalists Germany and Spain exercised voting rights and broadcast the first semi-final. France, the United Kingdom and Serbia exercised voting rights and broadcast the second semi-final.

I don't know about the other four, but I know that both semi-finals were broadcast in the UK. I can't really update it without knowing whether both or only one were broadcast in the other four countries. If someone does know, could they fix it to make it clearer. Thanks. TomPhil 11:33, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

the ex socialist soviet union alliance won again..

why you dont mention that russia (and ucraine) won thanks to the ex soviet union alliance? and its not a personal POV, its an obvious reality.

Its delt with in the general Eurovision article under critisisms. Stabby Joe (talk) 12:10, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Position map

I recently added an .svg map showing all the countries with which position they came, but it was removed. I've now added the same map back, but as a .png. Meaty♠Weenies (talk) 13:25, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Resolved.

Image:2008 Eurovision results.svg

Here's the scale, if anyone needs it... Meaty♠Weenies (talk) 16:54, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

     1      2      3      4      5      6      7      8      9      10      11      12      13      14      15      16      17      18      19      20      21      22      23      24      25

I changed to this way because I think it looks better in a row than in colummns besides it doesn't take so much space, I believeTony0106 (talk) 21:35, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I was going to do that, but didn't know hot to. Meaty♠Weenies (talk) 21:44, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I am sorry, but, though the map is very neat and all, its informative value is almost null to me. Excuse me for being awfully blunt - no offence meant, and I appreciate your effort. PrinceGloria (talk) 21:22, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I think it shows a very simple and important pattern: East is blue, West is red. Meaty♠Weenies (talk) 21:44, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I am not quite seeing this pattern, and I think this is borderline OR. You and I know how voting ended up, but this is an encyclopedia and we need some different standards than a ESC fan site. This map doesn't show much more than what the table shows as concerns placing, and the "pattern" can be disputed - if you know what to look for, you can see that, but otherwise, it's pretty unclear, with a lot of shades being used and, except for big blue Russia, not quite evident. PrinceGloria (talk) 21:51, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I plotted everything as the data says, so people can make their own minds' up on the patterns and I haven't put any information in the article noting that it is blue in the east and red in the west. I'm trying not to be rude, but I can't understand how you can't notice the pattern. Meaty♠Weenies (talk) 22:01, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
You are trying, I believe in the best of good wills, to unwittingly commit OR via backdoor. As I said, I could agree with you were we commenting in an ESC fan site, and I have my strong views on the subject, but until we find reliable, worthy sources reporting on the phenomenon, we should abstain from putting our observations into the article. For now, the article does not mention the "pattern" (and I guess a long time will pass until a credible source will be found for it, however true and obvious it may be to you and me), so illustrating is premature. This article here is to inform, in a rather dry, emotionaless and extremely boring impartial way on the fact that a Eurovision Song Contest took place, not to allow "people to make their own minds up" (no apostrophy needed). PrinceGloria (talk) 22:23, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Acutally, I did it because I like making maps. It's not original research, because all the data came from this article. Meaty♠Weenies (talk) 22:32, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Yes I do know, but then I reiterate that when the "pattern" argument is taken out, the map is of little informative value beyond what the scoreboard and tables already provide us with (and, may I say, in a more accessible form). I don't think we should include everything just because it exists. I've made a lot of stuff I was really proud of that ultimately weren't of much value to Wikipedia. As I said, if you like making maps, perhaps you could combine both previous maps into one, as I believe it could contain all of the data that both maps currently convey. PrinceGloria (talk) 22:43, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Some people prefer maps, some people prefer charts. I'm sure there's a lot of people reading this article that don't know where all the blakan and baltic countries are. I'll see what I can do on the combination. Meaty♠Weenies (talk) 23:13, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Ummm... Wikilinks? Also, the map doesn't quite show where the Balkans are - you have to know where they are to interpret it regarding to the Balkans. Sure waiting for a combo :D PrinceGloria (talk) 23:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Y Done

I hope this pleases you! Meaty♠Weenies (talk) 23:39, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I hope this pleases you! Meaty♠Weenies (talk) 23:39, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

No it does not, I am afraid:

  1. Every map needs a good legend
I haven't put a legend on the map, because this map is used across many different language wikipedias. I have, however, put the legend on the file description's page, so that people from other language wikipedias can copy and paste that, then translate it. Meaty♠Weenies (talk) 12:30, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
  1. I didn't mean to include the above info, as I said - pretty pointless. I meant merging the 1st/2nd semi participation with advancing/not advancing to the final. One could perhaps add countries which did not participate this year, but did in the past, and mark debutants, but certainly not mark every country with a colour according to their place in the final and use the wild yellow for non-participants...

Kind regards, PrinceGloria (talk) 04:21, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Any preference of colour scheme? I was thinking light green for countries who did not qualify in the first semi final; dark green for countries who did not qualify in the second semi final; light orange for countries who qualified in the first semi final and dark orange for countries who qualified in the second semi final. Meaty♠Weenies (talk) 12:33, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Error in semi-final 1 scoreboard

There is an error in the scoreboard for semi-final 1. It says that the Netherlands scored 27 points, but the scores (1, 3, 2, 7 and 3) add up to 16. AecisBrievenbus 13:26, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

bosnia 12 points from serbia

Can somebody add on the list of 12 points given by each country Serbia next to Bosnia, which received 12 points from the former. 11:58pm 25.05.2008

Do you mean Montenegro? Meaty♠Weenies (talk) 14:28, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

this article

...useless without vids. please revise. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.94.146.186 (talk) 14:11, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Eurovision.tv is in the links section, which includes videos. -- [[ axg ⁞⁞ talk ]] 14:40, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Since when do Wikipedia articles have videos? --WestJet (talk) 06:58, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Yellow Highlight

Why is Poland and Sweden highlighted in Yellow? Onshore —Preceding comment was added at 14:34, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

It indicates that the jury picked them to go through to the final. -- [[ axg ⁞⁞ talk ]] 14:39, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I've noted in the article about the colours used in the table now. Meaty♠Weenies (talk) 16:55, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

I think the colour should not be a bright yellow, it should be a more shallow colour because the song qualified only because of jury votes, not by getting enough votes. There isn't anything special to highlight in that. --Pudeo⺮ 10:39, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

My suggestions would be:      Cream (colour)      Flax (color) -- [[ axg ⁞⁞ talk ]] 10:50, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
A better choice I'd say, changed it already if no-one minds. --Pudeo⺮ 21:08, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Pictures of the performances

Are pictures or screencaps of the performances going to be added to this article, like they were for last year? The polish and irish entry already have pictures so i don't see why the others don't. - 92.10.214.188 (talk) 16:50, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

They're at commons:Eurovision Song Contest 2008 - galleries generally aren't a good idea on Wikipedia; better to select the most useful images and use them instead (I'm not sure why Ireland and Poland were chosen.) The overcomplicated gallery at Eurovision Song Contest 2007 is one of the reasons I tagged it as needing cleanup a few months ago. Chwech 17:03, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
The current pictures are candidates for speedy deletion as they provide no source or licence information, and the uploader has not yet come back to provide any. One registred user attempted to remove the unsourced tag through adding a licence - I re-added the speedy deletion candidate tag as there was still no source information so there was no way to verify the accuracy of the licence, and no explanation given on how a non-uploader knows what the licence is. I have reverted an attempt by an unregistered user to mark the image as released into the public domain for similar reasons. Once the source and licence information is given the pictures can be transferred to Commons. Camaron | Chris (talk) 08:17, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
The pictures at Commons are properly sourced and licenced (they're from Flickr). May as well replace the unsourced ones with some from there now. Chwech 13:35, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Good idea. Camaron | Chris (talk) 13:41, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

The 12 points to Germany explanation

Please, help me fight vandals removing info from section "12 points of the final" without explanation, namely that Bulgaria voted for Germany because one of the No Angels singers is Bulgarian. This seems to me to be precisely the section for this information. --V111P (talk) 07:16, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

There is no source for this statement, that's why it is removed. Also, how can anyone be sure that all Bulgarians who voted for this song did it only because of one singer's origin? AEriksson (talk) 07:41, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
"all Bulgarians who voted for this song" need not have voted "only because of one singer's origin" to make my statement true. Simply because to get 12 points, rather than 10, there is a difference of only that many votes (whatever the number in this particular case is). Also, I found a source - this should be able to count as a source -- it is said almost directly: "Aside from the highest-possible 12 points from Bulgaria - one of No Angels emigrated from that country and now hosts a pop song contest in Bulgaria - Germany ..."[7]. --V111P (talk) 08:10, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Nope, what you are trying to put in is in breach of WP:OR, so it should not be allowed. End of story. 86.136.63.33 (talk) 22:27, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, how about this link? [8] It suggests that the Bulgarians were force-fed a diet of Germany and that the back-up jury had it nowhere.

We can just say that one of the performers was Bulgarian. This says it all anyway. --V111P (talk) 19:01, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

12 points allocation table

Now that we have the graph showing who each country gave their points to i don't think the table showing who each country gave their 12 points to ,located directly underneath,is worthwile —Preceding unsigned comment added by Harry-fox (talk • contribs) 18:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

The 12 points table has been in a lot of previous contest pages, and is an easy way of seeing who gave w=hat country 12 pints without seaching through the scoreboard table. Keep it! Sims2aholic8 (talk) 23:42, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Don't put Serbia in Pot 1

Yes, Serbia would probably fit most with these countries... but it wasn't in the Semi-Final, so it wouldn't be in a Pot!! It was the winner of last year, so it already qualified for the final. AND, if you think the whole pot thing will go to next year and that Serbia will be put in Pot 1, that's no reason to add Serbia to it on this article... you can wait until the 2009 article pops up —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.210.16.30 (talk) 19:34, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Graphs

Is there any point in having all these graphs under the tales. They're not in any other contest page and I just don't see the point in them. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 14:23, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Me neither, there are two other ways in the article to tell how many points a country got, so I have removed them. -- [[ axg ⁞⁞ talk ]] 15:34, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Agree, I think there is already enough there that gives the score and this is article is getting a little long. They can still be included in the Commons gallery. Camaron | Chris (talk) 16:07, 27 May 2008 (UTC)