Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of submissions for the 79th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film


 * 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 User:The Rambling Man 12:05, 2 July 2008.

List of submissions for the 79th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
I think I must thank the FLC contest for getting me involved here. Hopefully, this is the first of many more :p Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 08:04, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. Could you include the year of the 79th Academy Award in the lead? I couldn't find it anywhere. Thank you. Eklipse (talk) 11:34, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Added. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 19:33, 21 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment Why does the table have " |- style="border-bottom:3px solid #CCCCFF" "? I find it goes against the layout of a standard wikitable, and just brings a lot of unneeded attention to it. Gary King ( talk ) 17:33, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 19:33, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Otherwise, pretty faultless from my point of view. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:47, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments from
 * Image in lead has a fragment for a caption so no need for full stop, and if you follow WP:MOS, you should use a minimum of 300px for the lead image.
 * "each country is invited by the Academy" - really? Is it an open invitation?  In fact, judging by the next sentence there's a select number of countries invited - what dictates this shortlist?
 * "Finland's submission" is repeated in one sentence.
 * Fixed. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 19:33, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Comments Otherwise it's all good. -- Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 06:23, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Try to engage the reader by avoiding the repetition of the article title as the first sentence
 * I'd like it to be mentioned in the first paragraph that the 79th Awards occurred in 2007.
 * Fixed both. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 06:41, 23 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Support The facts about the two "not counted" films are repeated. IMO those aren't interesting enough to warrant mention in the lead and think the footnotes are sufficient. Can you fix the sorting of "Result" so that "Won Academy Award" comes first rather than last? I don't think any of those external links meet WP:EL for this list. Colin°Talk 12:28, 23 June 2008 (UTC) Should Guillermo del Toro be sorted under T rather than D? Colin°Talk 21:46, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed the lead mentions and the sorting and I cut out the ELs. And I think "D" is where del Toro should be sorted because we refer to his surname as "del Toro" (in his article also) and not simply "Toro", although I could be wrong. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 00:24, 24 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment There really are no standards for colouring, but perhaps you should follow the award-won and award-nom templates, which use green for the winner and pink for nominees. -- Scorpion0422 22:03, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * On the FLC for the Japanese submission lists, I was originally using award-nom for the nominees, but another user indicated that pink was a more suitable color for the rejections. I think the present is alright. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 00:24, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Speaking of which, the color for the winner's cell is too similar to the pink used for the non-nominees - any chance of making it more distinctive for the sake of contrast? Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 22:48, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The "Won Academy Award" one? I can't see how yellow/bronze can't be distinguished from pink IMO. Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 07:37, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Because they are adjacent colors which start to become indistinguishable when they are pastelized (which lowers contrast), especially when viewed on a monitor with lower brightness. Additionally, it generically wouldn't be a bad idea to have the winner as a non-pastel color, for the sake of extra distinctiveness. Lastly, is there a reason why you're following one color scheme for the List of country's submissions for the... articles and another one for the List of submissions for the Xth Academy Award for... articles? Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 03:47, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I've changed the color for the award winner. And I don't see any color difference between any of the articles I've nominated... Sephiroth BCR  ( Converse ) 05:34, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
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