Talk:Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008/GA2

GA Review

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Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 13:14, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Am reviewing for the GAN October 2020 Backlog Drive. MWright96 (talk) 13:14, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Lead

• References in the lead are unnecessary

The few bits about Romania's Eurovision history and the award received by the song are too short to have their own sections, thus they are included in the lead with an accompanying reference. It is a legitimate way of structuring an article, I hope it's okay with you.

• "and the song indicted for plagiarism." - reviewed; indicted sounds like the song was charged with a crime!
• "and ultimately reached 20th place" - finished in 20th
• "dark-colored" - coloured
• "Prior to the 2008 contest, Romania had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest ten times since its first entry in 1994. Its highest placing in the contest had been third place, which the nation achieved in 2005. In 2007, Romania finished in 13th place." - None of this information is included in the article body. Consider including it into the main prose.

See above comment.

• "Among other accolades, "Pe-o margine de lume" won a Marcel Bezençon award in the composers' category." - This needs to be mentioned in the article body not just in the lead

See above comment.

Competing entries and shows

• "Romanian Television (TVR) organized" - organised
• "in favor of competing" - favour
• "to advance to the final round" - just final will suffice
• "All participants had been promoted by music videos that were broadcast by TVR." - state when TVR broadcast the music videos

This sadly isn't stated by the source for all songs.

• The first two columns of the main table of this section are missing scope="col"s per MOS:DTT

Semi-final 1

• Rock does not need to be linked
• "A jury panel was made up to rate the songs," - formed
• All columns in the table in this section must include scope="col" for MOS:DTT compliance

Semi-final 2

• "The jury panel was made up of Romanian music professionals and media personalities" - composed
• As with the semi-final 1 table, all columns should include scope="col" for MOS:DTT compliance

Final

• "the jury rating the entries presented during the event was partly replaced:" - replaced by whom?

The jury for the final (which is listed in the sentence above) is very similar to the one that reviewed the other semi-finals. However, the source does not explicitly state who the replaced jury members were.

• "'"Railroad, Railroad" performed in the final instead." - "Railroad, Railroad" was performed
• "with him also being unavailable for the date of the final," - {[xt|for the final}} was suffice here

Outcome and controversy

• The table at the bottom of this section could be made sortable like the others above it and have scope="col" added to all five columns

Promotion

• "ceoncerning ongoing promotional endeavours." - typo; should be written as concerning
• "was performed at the UK Eurovision Preview Party event held on 25 April" - the word in bold isn't required
• "held on 25 April in the London Scala club." - in London's Scala club.
• "One day later," - The following day,
• "They were eventually greeted by Antwerp's mayor" - consider including the exact name of Antwerp's mayor for clarity

At Eurovision

• "with commentary done by Leonard Miron." - the word indicated in bold is not needed
• "whose colors" - colours
• "and three female backing vocalists and a piano player were further hired for the show." - were employed for the performance.

Voting

• "Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Romania in the contest's first semi-final and Grand Final," - the word in bold isn't needed
• "The country awarded its 12 points to Greece in the contest's semi-final and final." - to Greece in both the semi-final and final.

References

• Be consistent how you write ESCToday. For example 9 references have it written as "ESCToday" whereas 3 are spelt as "ESC Today"
• References 29, 37, 44 and 45 are missing the authors of the respective articles

Will put the review on hold to allow the nominator to address or query the points raised above. MWright96 (talk) 17:46, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

@MWright96: Thank you so much for your review! I have addressed your comments except where I left answers. Greets; Cartoon network freak (talk) 17:33, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

@Cartoon network freak: Now promoting to GA class. MWright96 (talk) 19:22, 6 October 2020 (UTC)