Talk:Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019

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Reviewer: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 06:01, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a. (prose, spelling, and grammar):

   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):

   d. (copyvio and plagiarism):

   Earwig flagged the attributed quote; televoting point distributions, which are just strings of numbers; and one section I believe needs more rewording.

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 non-free use rationales):

   There are two CC-BY-SA photos from Eurovisionary with appropriate licenses. Encouragement (not needed for GA but a way to improve the page): add alt text.

   b. (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/fail:

   Note the suggested copy changes as well as the area that has too close wording to the EBU source (ref 20). I have one additional reference question. 7-day hold. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:01, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(Criteria marked are unassessed)

Copy changes

Lead

• To promote the entry, a music video for the song was created and Duska appeared at events in Amsterdam and Madrid. Needs a comma after "created". See User:Sammi Brie/Commas in sentences (CinS)

 Done Grk1011 (talk) 18:37, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Background

• The nation has won the contest once to this point, in 2005 with the song "My Number One" performed by Helena Paparizou. I'd tweak punctuation: The nation has won the contest once to this point: in 2005 with the song "My Number One", performed by Helena Paparizou.
• 2016-entrant Argo with their song "Utopian Land" failed to qualify the nation to the final for the first time ever, marking Greece's worst result at the contest and leading to their absence from the final for the first time since 2000, a contest they did not take part in. A long sentence that needs at least a semicolon. 2016 entrant Argo, with their song "Utopian Land", failed to qualify the nation to the final for the first time ever—Greece's worst result at the contest and their first absence from the final since not participating in 2000.
• ERT had been in charge of Greece's participation in the contest since their debut in 1974 until 2013 when the broadcaster was shutdown by a government directive and replaced firstly with the interim Dimosia Tileorasi (DT) and then later by the New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television (NERIT) broadcaster. Following the victory of the Syriza party at the January 2015 Greek legislative election, the Hellenic Parliament re-instated ERT as the public Greek broadcaster by the renaming of NERIT as ERT, which began broadcasting in June 2015.
  • "Shut down" in this case, a verb, is two words.
  • The last sentence I'd reword. Following the victory of the Syriza party at the January 2015 Greek legislative election, the Hellenic Parliament renamed NERIT to ERT that June.
• The Greek artist and song in 2018 was selected via an internal selection. Were, not was, for the plural "artist and song"

 Done Grk1011 (talk) 18:37, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Before Eurovision

• An eight-member artistic committee was involved with the selection of the entrant and consisted of chairman, music composer and ERT board member Dimitris Papadimitriou, journalist Fotis Apergis, ERT Director of International Relations Maria Koufopoulou, ERT Head of European and International Affairs Sofia Dranidou, and music producers Petros Adam and Yiannis Petridis. There are commas in the list items, so all of the commas except for the one after "chairman" should be semicolons.
• Her song "Better Love", was then presented on 6 March Remove comma
• Is "Amsterdam, Netherlands" and "Madrid, Spain" necessary? I don't think so. If they were to be kept, MOS:GEOCOMMA is needed after each.

 Done Grk1011 (talk) 18:37, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

At Eurovision

• This included the jury show on 13 May where the professional juries of each country watched and voted on the competing entries in the first semi-final. Add a comma after 13 May
• The performance was choreographed by Efi Gousi who also directed the music video of "Better Love". Add a comma after Gousi
• As part of this press conference, the qualifying artists took part in a draw to determine which half of the final they would subsequently participate in. Move the last "in" before "which"
• Write "percent" instead of %: see MOS:PERCENT
• Remove the colon after "based on". You can probably convert the semicolons here to commas.
• The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation's televoting results were released shortly after the final. Add commas after "member" and "results" to create an appositive.

 Done Grk1011 (talk) 18:37, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Spot checks

I selected five of 32 references to spot check at random:

• 17: Running order from the EBU for the first semi-final has Greece 16th between Portugal and San Marino. Y
• 20: The facts check out, but look below...
• 22: Greek-language source. Replaced with
  • 23: It's a database. Is Six on Stage considered reliable? It checks out: just wanted to ask as to the source itself.
• 30: Seems to be more of a process note that The individual voting results of all jury members will be kept secret until after the Grand Final... Y
• 32: Eurovoix report on choice of Gus G as spokesperson. Y

There is one area that needs rewording: the two bolded sections are too close to one of the EBU pages. Bolded segments are the offending ones that are copied too closely in the article.

Katerine is wearing a white dress with a line of pearls braided in her hair. Her 3 dancers are dressed in white and yellow-layered tops with high collars with large pearls to the front. There is a definite link to official music video, where the layered clothing, pearls and swords also made an appearance. / As the song progresses, the 2 sword wielding dancers perform synchronised ballet and contemporary dance moves whilst the 3 additional dancers interact with the staging, lying down to interact with the LED flooring. Altogether, it is an eclectic yet impactful display.

 Done I've replaced the Six on Stage ref with two others. One of them uses the other as their source, but it's in English so more of a courtesy link. Grk1011 (talk) 18:37, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Sammi Brie: I believe I have addressed the items you've identified! Thanks for the review and please let me know if there is anything else! Grk1011 (talk) 18:37, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]