Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards 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 12:32, 7 September 2008.

List of submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
This is a self-nomination. The layout of the list is identical to that used in other similar lists that were recently promoted to FL. BomBom (talk) 13:24, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't you think its a little too identical? The first paragraph of the lead has been copied and pasted from List of submissions to the 74th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. I agree to base it on another list, but don't copy it directly. You should change it a little, even if it is just wording you change. Qst (talk) 13:49, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. I have rephrased the first paragraph. BomBom (talk) 14:35, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Comments - sources look good. Links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:13, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support, you've done a good job. Well done. Qst (talk) 19:34, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments - I think this is a very good page. On other Foreign Film Submission lists, the editor has elected to remove interesting trivia and information that might be of interest to people who are looking up this page. The header of this article includes interesting information specific to the year in question, making it more interesting and distinguishes it from the other "list" pages. Adtran - Talk —Preceding undated comment was added at 16:34, 27 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Support, great gob, Jaespinoza (talk) 18:18, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

--Crzycheetah 01:08, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
 *  Comments Support
 * Please avoid parentheses in the lead. (and so far only) & (which is spoken in parts of Nepal)
 * In the "original title" column, there are several inconsistencies:
 * In the "Bhutan" row, there should be Hindi letters, as well, just like the "India" row
 * In the "France" row, you're missing the Russian transliteration
 * In the "Nepal" row, why is there a French translation? It says that the film was in Tibetan, not French. So, where is the Tibetan translation?
 * In the "Russia" row, you have the Russian translation, but the film is in German, so there should be a German translation, as well.
 * In the "Vietnam" row, you have two translations in one line, shouldn't it be done similar to the "Nepal" row?


 * The parentheses in the lead section have been removed. The original titles of the French, Russian and Vietnamese entries have all been fixed. The only things "missing" are the original titles of the Bhutanese entry The Cup and the Nepalese entry Himalaya, both of which are in the Tibetan language. There's not much I can do with regard to this. The article has been placed for weeks in the Articles needing Tibetan script or text category. Moreover, I have checked the list of Wikipedians who speak Tibetan, and all of them only have a basic understanding of it, so they can't be of much help. Anyway, please note that a film's original title is not necessarily in the language that is predominantly used in the script. For instance, the original title of the film Himalaya, which was merely submitted by Nepal but was in fact a predominantly French production with a French director, is Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef. This is the title that appears onscreen as well as on the film's promotional posters. I don't think anyone has ever bothered to find out what the "Tibetan title" of the film was, just as no one has ever bothered to find out what the "Aramaic title" or the "Latin title" of The Passion of the Christ was. Neither The Cups official website nor Himalayas official website contain any Tibetan title, so it's really not that important. BomBom (talk) 02:38, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
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