Talk:Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009/GA2

GA Review

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Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 13:15, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Taking up the review for the GAN October 2020 Backlog Drive. MWright96 (talk) 13:15, 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 unncessary

See my comment on this on your 2008 review! Cartoon network freak (talk) 17:33, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• "Prior to the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, Romania competed eleven times since its first entry in 1994. Its highest placing in the contest had been third place, which the nation achieved in 2005. In 2008, Romania finished in 20th place." - All this information is not inculded in the article body and should be

See my comment on this on your 2008 review! Cartoon network freak (talk) 17:33, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• ""The Balkan Girls" attained local commercial success, topping the Romanian Top 100 in April." - same issue as above

See my comment on this on your 2008 review! Cartoon network freak (talk) 17:33, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Competing entries

• "Romanian Television (TVR) organized" - organised
• "to wrongfully claim that this" - more formal and neutral; incorrectly state
• "solely Romanian composers were invited to compete in Selecția Națională." - Selecția Națională was restricted solely to Romanian composers.

Shows

• "Swedish trio Biondo was hired as the interval act." - employed
• You don't need to refer to the final as "final round" each time it is mentioned
• "All participants had been promoted by music videos that were broadcast by TVR." - state exactly when TVR broadcast the music videos

This sadly isn't known. Cartoon network freak (talk) 17:37, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• "The jury that analysed the songs in the final round was made up of" - composed of

Promotion

• "an accompanying music video was directed by Dragoș Buliga near bridges" - close to disused railway bridges
• "She sang the song at the ITB Berlin in March, was interviewed by the Berlin press" - in March; she was
• "at the UK Eurovision Preview Party event in the London Scala club" - in London's Scala club
• "and her Eurovision participation was endorsed by an advertisement of Romanian football manager" - from

At Eurovision

• "with Manoliu as the country's head of delegation." - Manoliu's forename is missing
• "Elena sported a flesh-colored dress and high heels.[30][31][19]" - refs in numerical order please

Voting

• "as well as by the country on both events." - stages
• "had placed 14th by the televote" - in
• "Romania awarded its 12 points to Turkey in the semi-final and to Moldova in the contest's final." - the word indiciated in bold is unneeded
• Briefly explain who Alina Sorescu is to the uninitated

Tables

• The Split voting results from Romania (Final) is missing the scope="col" in the columns per MOS:DTT
• Same issue with the competing entries table

References

• Reference 3 and 6's publication dates are incorrect
• Reference 3 is missing the author

Am going to put the review on hold to allow the nominator to address or query the above suggestions. MWright96 (talk) 16:25, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

@MWright96: Thank you so much for your review! I have answered to some of the unsolved comments. Greets; Cartoon network freak (talk) 17:48, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• @Cartoon network freak: Now promoting to GA class. MWright96 (talk) 19:16, 6 October 2020 (UTC)