Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film/archive1


 * 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 not promoted by User:The Rambling Man 15:45, 17 September 2008.

List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
I am self-nominating this list because I believe it complies with all of the FL criteria in terms of referencing, appealing layout, exhaustiveness... All objections will of course be promptly addressed. BomBom (talk) 15:51, 31 August 2008 (UTC) --Crzycheetah 22:08, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * Please avoid parentheses in the lead: (which the Moscow International...) and (who is the only German...)
 * Why are "German Films Service + Marketing GmbH" and "Export-Union of German Cinema" in italics?
 * The "A" note should be placed at the end of that sentence.
 * "no German film possessed the high quality to become a nominee" should be sourced.
 * How do you know which films were submitted by East Germany? The general reference does not indicate in its list.
 * Are we allowed to put the flags in section headings? I am not sure...
 * Should the German films in other categories section really be here? This page's title clearly states "List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film"; it does not imply in any way that readers can find German films nominated in other categories here.
 * I addressed most of the points raised here. I added a reference that explicitly indicates which films were submitted by East Germany. I also removed the flags, as with the small size of the flag icon the difference between the East German and the (West) German flag is hard to see.
 * I did not address the last point, as personally I think that the section on German film in other categories should be included. It is useful and relevant information related to the subject matter and does not increase the article size beyond feasible limits. Most importantly, many people mistakenly assume that foreign films are only eligible for the Best Foreign Language Film category, so one should at least include a disclaimer of the sort this list does not cover all German films that have been nominated for any Academy Award. This section serves as a disclaimer, and even gives some additional information. Of course one could debate this, but I think that including this section is the most pragmatic solution in the interest of those who seek information on Germany and the Academy Awards. Голубое сало/Blue Salo (talk) 22:37, 31 August 2008 (UTC)


 * All of the objections raised above have been addressed. I agree with BlueSalo regarding the inclusion of awards in other categories. This article is currently the only place on Wikipedia that covers the topic of "Germany and the Academy Awards". Therefore, including information about awards won by German films in other categories is not unreasonable, especially since it is likely to interest readers who will come looking for this article in the first place. Since most of these other awards have been in short film categories, I don't think it's worth having a separate article to deal with them. However, it is true that this is not the main subject of the article. Therefore, I have mentioned films nominated in other categories in a footnote: this is a good compromise that allows us to keep the information without having it encroach upon the main body of the article. BomBom (talk) 23:30, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Comments - sources look okay. Links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:43, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Comments Aside for merging the tables this list looks good to go for a FL. Nergaal (talk) 05:56, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * are you sure the three tables cannot be merged together by simply writing in the legend that until 1990 the entries were all west German, except for those marked with (insert your preferred sign here)? This way the sortability would actually be useful
 * not sure about this, but I would golden out the whole lines where there was a win (they aren't that many anyways)
 * since there were only 3 times before '92 when there was no entry, a note would be nice to explain why were these exceptions (the 60's ones)
 * I merged the three tables in my sandbox, but I am not convinced that this is better. Having three tables makes it easy to distinguish the submissions of former West and East Germany and the reunified Germany. Merging the tables makes this much harder. Maybe one could colour code the table, but I think that would be an overkill given that the results are already colour coded. But let me know what you think, maybe there is a way of having one table that clearly distinguishes between East and West German submissions.
 * I think that colour coding the whole lines for the wins would be an overkill, too. The current layout is also consistent with all other Academy Award lists, which colour code only the cell for the result.
 * Unfortunately I could not find any information for why there were no entries in the 1960s. Educated guess is that there were no high quality films made during these years (the 1950s and 1960s German cinema was very weak), but unfortunately all sources I could find are silent about the reasons for having no submission in those years. Голубое сало/Blue Salo (talk) 16:37, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
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