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The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by Matthewedwards 19:28, 23 May 2009 [1].

List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film[edit]

Nominator(s): BomBom (talk) 21:10, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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I am nominating this for featured list because I think it is now up to the standards. The layout is based on that of other Academy-Award FLs, so there shouldn't be much controversy. All objections will of course be promptly addressed. Regards. BomBom (talk) 21:10, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support Unfortunately these may seem like cookie-cutter topics, but this list is clearly well-developed and stand-alone. This is clearly comprable to the other submission FLs, and it is very interesting and well-referenced. I have no concerns. Reywas92Talk 21:09, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment: Mind explaining why you created {{Academy Award nominee/meta/color}}, {{Academy Award submission/meta/color}}, and {{Academy Award winner/meta/color}}? The change in the article added 2kb of text, and {{nom}} seemed to be working just fine. First, the template titles are unnecessarily long. It could just be "Academy Award nomination color" or even "Oscar nom color". Those could have been combined or even added to the Nom template, so you could just write "nom|Won" or so that "Oscar color|Nominated" would automatically be green and "Oscar color|Won" would be gold. Otherwise, I would suggest including "align=center" within the template, as Nom did. Reywas92Talk 23:57, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Comment. I removed the color templates. They are still at an early development stage, and weren't designed for this article anyway but for an experiment being carried out on my sandbox. They shouldn't have been used in the first place. Regards. --BomBom (talk) 13:18, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • That's fine, sorry if I was being overcritical. WP's coloring everywhere does need to be standardized somehow, though. Reywas92Talk 20:40, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 21:59, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)
Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)
  • Do we really need to link "English language"?
  • "with all of its submissions failing to garner a nomination"-->as all of its submissions failed to garner a nomination
  • "which were held on 25 March 1991"
  • "Reunified Germany has been very successful in the Best Foreign Language Film category, managing to secure two wins and eight nominations in less than two decades."-->Reunified Germany has been successful in the Best Foreign Language Film category, securing two wins and eight nominations in less than two decades.
  • "The two German films which received the award" "which"-->that
  • "who is also the only German director to have more than one film nominated for the award. "-->the only German director to have more than one film nominated for the award.
  • There needs to be a note saying that each year is linked to an article about that year in film—see List of Washington Wizards head coaches as an example.
  • In the notes, film names should not be bolded. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:17, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 21:59, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done. All of your comments have been taken into account. As for the source, it is pretty clear from the article itself who German Films is. German Films Service + Marketing GmbH, which was known as the Export-Union of German Cinema until 2004, is an umbrella association that organizes each year the committee and procedures that select Germany's submission to the Academy Awards. The article thus couldn't use a more official source. --BomBom (talk) 10:23, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry about that, I have a tendency to be over-critical of sources. I always question them to be on the safe side. Dabomb87 (talk) 21:59, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments by Crzycheetah
*Comment Maybe I am missing something here, but why are you using archived versions on some of the references while the originals are still working?--Crzycheetah 23:35, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Reply Yes. Although the site is currently working, it happened once before that it suddenly went done. You never know when this might happen again, hence the archived links. Do you think they should be removed? --BomBom (talk) 23:48, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Hmm, it depends on how often the site goes down. If it was just one time, I think we need to remove the archived links. If it happens more than once, then yeah we need those archived links.
        I just noticed that in the general reference, Das Boot movie is mentioned, but this list doesn't. Any idea why?--Crzycheetah 04:30, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • Reply This is a mistake in the general reference. Das Boot was indeed a German film that was nominated for six Academy Awards, but it was never submitted in the Foreign Language Film category, hence its non-inclusion in the article. I clarified this in the footnotes section. --BomBom (talk) 16:40, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Looks good enough to me. Good job!--Crzycheetah 06:06, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - You make a specific unreferenced statement in the lead, "West Germany and East Germany were formally reunited on 3 October 1990." Geraldk (talk) 15:22, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Done. I added a reference. I didn't think it necessary given that the date of reunification is a widely-known, undisputed fact. --BomBom (talk) 19:06, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Yes, well, I'm anal retentive. Great work, btw. Really a well done list. Geraldk (talk) 01:08, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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