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		This award is given in recognition to Sims2aholic8 for collecting at least 25 points during the January 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 16,070 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 22:40, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I heard the complaints and we could go for a color scheme that's a bit lighter and more pleasing and still accessible — IмSтevan ^talk 13:04, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just raised this point on the main talk page as well. I don't necessarily mind either way, my original thought was that the brighter scheme was a bit too garish, but if there's a strong pull one way or the other we can work with the lighter colours. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 13:09, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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(t · c) buidhe 02:39, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I created a map for the 1980 contest which is a good jumping off point for making maps for the pre 90s contests — IмSтevan ^talk 14:43, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks ImStevan! I'll definitely help out with creating individuals maps. If I notice any specific cases where further changes are required, e.g. border changes, I'll let you know. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 17:28, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The article

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The article

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've

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Please add documentation and at least one category to {{ESC 2008 participants}} and the similar templates that you created. You can use one /doc page for all of the templates for ease of maintenance. I have set up one of them for you. See {{ESC 1968 participants}} for how to do that; just copy and paste that code to the rest of the templates that you created. Thanks! – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:38, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonesey95: I was looking into categorizing these myself, but unsure if I should put them in Category:Eurovision Song Contest songs by year templates, or create a new subcategory. Thoughts? --DB1729^talk 17:19, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am not a category expert. I would put them in the existing category for now, using the common documentation page to do so. If the category needs to change, you would only have to change one page to move all of the templates to the new category.

I don't think you needed to create dozens of individual templates. It should not have been too difficult to create one template that would take a year as a parameter and display the links to participants for that year.

The bigger question is why these new templates are needed at all. In Eurovision Song Contest 1978, for example, the countries are already listed in a table immediately following the template, as well as in the navbox at the bottom of the page. I don't think we need a third list of the countries. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:39, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree on the last point. There is a lot of overlap. Maybe these should be nommed for deletion before doing anything else? DB1729^talk 17:46, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, sorry, I wrote "you" above because I thought that Sims2aholic8 had responded. My mistake. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:56, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd recommend one documentation page be used for the lot. I'm sure Sims2aholic8 will be back on in a day or so, so we'll await their decision as they're the one you initially asked about this. Grk1011 (talk) 12:29, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:SELFRED, hence the creation of separate templates to circumvent this. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 18:28, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply

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I believe their comments are just related to the documentation page (use instructions) and categories, not really the reasons why they exist. I started adding the talk page banners too, but I don't have AWB anymore so it's been slow. Grk1011 (talk) 18:51, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clarifying

WP:RATER, I've found it very useful without having to use AWB (which I also don't have the ability to use atm). Sims2aholic8 (talk) 14:49, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply

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 Comment: Just as a follow-up should anyone be interested, new category for these templates has been created and added for each template and can be found at Category:Eurovision Song Contest countries by year templates, and documentation has been added for all templates based off of the one documentation page, which can be found at Template:ESC 1956 participants/doc. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 16:42, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The article

The article Eurovision Song Contest 1994 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Eurovision Song Contest 1994 for comments about the article, and Talk:Eurovision Song Contest 1994/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Riley1012 -- Riley1012 (talk) 11:01, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today (March 25th, 2024), you deleted a question that I posted in the Talk page of the article "Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024". What is the reason that you deleted it? Shailevi8 (talk) 11:50, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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not forums for unrelated discussions about the subject. There are many Eurovision forums which exist elsewhere where subjects like the one you brought up can be discussed, but Wikipedia is not the place for that. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 11:56, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply

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To be fair the genre of the song is relevant to the article — IмSтevan ^talk 15:07, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's relevant to the

WP:NOTAFORUM [...] article talk pages exist solely to discuss how to improve articles; they are not for general discussion about the subject of the article [...], which I believe the deleted post contravened and was subject to removal. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 15:11, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply

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I asked the Map Project on input regarding our map — IмSтevan ^talk 15:08, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ImStevan: That's a really good idea! I had put in a request back in December with the Graphics Lab Map workshop before our work these past couple of weeks but to no avail. Hopefully though this will be a more direct point of contact that will be more likely to help us out. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 15:18, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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12 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Eurovision Song Contest 1993, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that with a population of 1,500, Millstreet in County Cork, Ireland, became the smallest settlement to host the Eurovision Song Contest when it staged the 1993 event? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eurovision Song Contest 1993. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Eurovision Song Contest 1993), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page

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20 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Eurovision Song Contest 1990, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Eurovision Song Contest 1990, held in Yugoslavia, was the first Eurovision Song Contest to be held in the Balkans or in a socialist state? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eurovision Song Contest 1990. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Eurovision Song Contest 1990), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page

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24 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Eurovision Song Contest 1994, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that seven countries competed in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 for the first time, the largest single expansion of participating countries since the contest's first edition? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eurovision Song Contest 1994. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Eurovision Song Contest 1994), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page

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