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Budget

I'm sorry that I keep reverting you but you are going to have to find a more reliable source. BOM.com also says that Superman Return's budget is like 260 million, when it isn't. Try and find a source from Disney or the director. Bignole 13:15, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

List of Egyptian films

PLease contact me to discuss. PLease see the other lists for style - good work ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 22:01, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

PLease try to create new articles like The Girl with the Pistol next time. Thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 11:07, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Could you try to add the year category also and redirect the foreign language title to the english. Otherwise somebody else might start the same article under the original title. pLease listen to me -you ignored me last time ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 11:10, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

WOULD YOU PLEASE LISTEN TO ME!!!!!!!!!!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 11:18, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

OK sorry to go on, but all you had to do is quickly reply last time and I would have known!!. Its just at WP Films the most active of us try so hard to add infoboxes to all articles and to improve the minor stubs which are undeveloped . If you could take an extra minute on each one with an infobox and cinema template it would save a lot of work later and gives it a firm foundation to work on. I appreciate your work very much ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 11:26, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Its also very important to create the redirects e.g see Macskajáték. This way it avoids potential duplicate articles which believe me happens all the time. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 11:33, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes I'm not surprised you were scared off with the tough image licenses. Go to www.google.com click on images and search for the title of the film. Save it and copy the url address of the page you got the image from. Then on wikipedia click upload and select either screenshot of poster or dvd cover. Then just copy the fair use rationale template and just add the correct source and title the image is being used in. Have a go ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 11:40, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

If you see here you can copy and paste the full rationale to every poster of the film you upload and just add the correct title three times and the source you got the image from. You get the hang of it -I had to devise a way to shut that image bot up!!!! LOL! Good luck ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 11:43, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

If you see Image:La ragazza con la pistola.jpg where it says source this is where you provide the link to where you got it from ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 11:45, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

I am pleased you are working on these films as these countries are all notable film producers and at the moment aside from Italy and France the coverage is very poor. When I;m done on my curret work the countries I aim to work the most on are Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, Israel, Greece, Sweden/Denmark and Russia. There are truckloads of missing films from these countries probably over 95% are missing it would be superb if you could develop this area. I also created the list of films for these countries which are also pretty underdeveloped. I would love to see some more even coverage of films from these countries which have produced some great films ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 11:50, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes I'd noticed of course you were covering those. Unbelievable isn't it that they have taken nearly 7 years to get onto here on a project of this scale. Regards ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 12:00, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

For many films it may not be easy to find an image. French and Italian films should be easiest. I added a film poster and infobox to Catsplay ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 12:05, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Nice going. I've sorted The Truce (1974 film) as well. I am very familiar with Argentine cinema anyway ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 12:29, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

There should be categorized under [[:Category:Submissions for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award ]] ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 12:31, 23 November 2007 (UTC) Category:Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award nominees is perfect. I'll do it now ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 12:35, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

I've now sorted 107 of the pages see Category:Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award nominees. I've reached 1986. I'll continue with tagging and templating later. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk • contribs) 13:41, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Yep I started Aage Fønss also!!! Keep up the good work. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 13:43, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

I think there is already a seperate category for the winners ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 13:51, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

There's 189 nominees I think perhaps I have missed some? Did you mean 255 including the winners? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 15:18, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

In total it looks around 245 ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 15:19, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Well its the same with the infoboxes. I hate that buff colur. It is yellow and not pleasant looking. Why not use gold rather than a mustard yellow if you want to create the gold effect? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 15:47, 23 November 2007 (UTC) Keep it as it is at present and see what the consensus is at the FA nom -if others agree with you then revert it. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 15:51, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

OK I reverted the silver -it looked a little blocky I agree but the off yellow was not good either. Happy with this? I personally think this looks a lot clearer ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 16:17, 23 November 2007 (UTC) Personally I think it is an excellent article and worthy of an FA although I would have to read it more thoroughly to check for reiable references and copy editing. It appears to meet the criteria but FA nominations are a gruelling process and people will object at the slightest things. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 16:27, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Merger

I have done some work here: User:Inge/Sandbox if you want to use it. Since it might be a bit intimidating to actually do the merger I will do it now with the list I have made based on your ideas. Be prepared that this might create some turbulence :) Inge 14:43, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Re:Help needed in Hindi

Hello BomBom! Thanks for your inquiry. Salaam Bombay! is written in Hindi as सलाम बॉम्बे! I have added this script to the articles as well as the scripts for other Hindi films here. I hope this helps. Best of luck, Anupam^Talk 17:14, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

You're very welcome! The way you rewrote/formatted your version of the article seems to be better than the current one. With regards, Anupam^Talk 19:44, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

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FA

YES WE DID IT!!!!!!!!! AN FA HURRAH!!!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 22:08, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

What happened with Category:Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award nominees? Did anybody inform me of an imposing deletion? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 22:12, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.PNG

Hi. The map Image:Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.PNG is very good, but I'd like to suggest an alteration. The red for the US is a bit too attention-grabbing in contrast to the shades of green used for the other countries - and it is these other countries that are of interest here. Please consider a different colour scheme (pale blue for the US, perhaps?) - 52 Pickup (talk) 16:54, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I am writing to you regarding the comment you made on my talk page about the map Image:Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.PNG. I'm sorry for not replying to you earlier, but I did not want to modify the map right away: because the nominations announcement was imminent, I would in any case have had to update the map again in order to include the countries which were nominated for the first time ever. Therefore, I preferred to do all the necessary modifications at the same time. I have now updated the map by including these countries AND by taking into account the suggestions you made. Here is the old version of the map. This is the current version. Do you like the current colours ? If not, what other colours would you recommend ? BomBom (talk) 15:22, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Nice. Perhaps a dark grey (darker than the grey used for all other countries) or black might be even better for the USA? The main contrast you want to convey in the image is between the nominees and the winners, so while the USA needs to be in a separate colour to all other countries for this image, the USA still contrasts a little too strongly from all other colours. - 52 Pickup ^(deal) 18:34, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I put the US in dark grey. The map now looks like this. Is it OK now? BomBom (talk) 14:52, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Yep. Good job! - 52 Pickup ^(deal) 15:44, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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From a world film fan

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Best Picture

Hello. I noticed today that you added the "name changes" for Academy Award Best Picture over the years. That is quite coincidental --- I was just about to do that myself. I could not believe when I logged in and saw that done. What a funny coincidence. Just wanted to let you know. Thanks. (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 18:33, 5 March 2008 (UTC))

Sandbox13

I hope you don't mind but I updated the list, if you do just revert it. Please let me know what you think either way. Thanks -- UKPhoenix79 (talk) 20:11, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

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Case Law

Hi, BomBom! What's the difference between Category:LGBT case law and Category:United States gay rights cases? -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 15:01, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, BomBom. To follow up, I'm still not convinced we need three separate categories. At the moment, Category:LGBT case law has three articles and the two subcats, Category:United States gay rights cases (21 articles) and Category:LGBT-related European Court of Human Rights cases (with 5). Even if every case mentioned in List of LGBT-related ECHR cases gets put in the cat, that's only 15 articles. My feeling is that all of the articles should be combined into one cat - Category:LGBT case law or perhaps Category:LGBT case law worldwide. Thoughts? I've watchlisted your page, so reply here? Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 19:34, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, SatyrTN. Regarding the issue of subcategories, I think it is preferable to have clearly defined subcategories (albeit with less articles) inside a broader category rather than have dozens of articles grouped in a single broad category. Better-defined subcategories are much more helpful and much more useful. It is possible to divide the category either geographically or thematically. Currently, the category is divided along geographical lines: i.e. there's a subcategory for the US, one for Europe, etc... However, it is also possible to opt for a thematic division: i.e. having subcategories about LGBT cases dealing with sodomy laws, LGBT cases dealing with same-sex marriage, LGBT cases dealing with age of consent, etc... I don't know which approach would be better. In any case, either approach would be better than having a broad unidivided category. Thoughts? 12:45, 2 April 2008 (UTC)BomBom (talk)

Well, WP:OCAT#NARROW seems to indicate different. "Intersection categories should only be created when both parent categories are very large and similar intersections can be made for related categories." -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 15:08, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

OK then, merge them. BomBom (talk) 15:09, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Another two cats?

Just curious about the difference between Category:Homosexuality in the United Kingdom and Category:LGBT culture in the United Kingdom. They have just about the same entries - can we merge them? -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 19:37, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

The problem is that you can't have a category dealing with "LGBT law" or one dealing with "LGBT history" placed as a subcategory under "LGBT culture". History and law are in no way derivative of culture. LGBT law, history, culture, people, etc... all fall under the broad category of "Homosexuality". Thoughts? BomBom (talk) 12:49, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I totally don't understand your point. "Homosexuality in the UK" doesn't say anything about history, law, or culture. And it's non-inclusive by leaving out Transgender.

Maybe I see now - You're looking to put the "LGBT culture", "LGBT history", "lgbt law" into a UK-specific super-cat.

The US version has the super-cat as "Category:LGBT culture in the United States", but I'm not even sure that's necessary. But for the sake of standardizing, can we use that as the super-cat for the UK? Our history and law relating to our culture are, too, part of our culture, so it makes sense to me. More? If we still disagree, can we bring it to WT:LGBT? -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 15:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

OK, then, if it's for the sake of standardization. Although I still find it weird to have "law" as a subcategory under "culture". BomBom (talk) 15:19, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

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

Hey, I added in the snub of Ran per your comments at the above FLC. Cheers, Sephiroth BCR ^(Converse) 05:27, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Template:EgyptPMs

Thank you; I'm glad you like it. Indeed, I daresay there isn't that much room for improvement, but I'd be happy to be proved wrong. Biruitorul ^Talk 22:14, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Re:FLC

That's odd, I went off this and when I noticed there was a list on the same subject, I decided to bring it up to par. I was under the impression that 1) short films/documentaries aren't feature-length films in the sense the Academy treats it 2) dubbed films don't count as a foreign language film 3) performances by foreign language actors in English films don't count since the film is primarily English. Hmm...perhaps a compromise? The list as you envision it appears to have a much larger scope that this one currently has. Is there a significant difference between the Academy definition of a foreign language film (per that link) and yours that would allow two lists to be formed? I could then use a {{seealso}} to link to your list. This allows for both of our works to be preserved. Cheers, Sephiroth BCR ^(Converse) 01:07, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

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Possible FT

Hey, I was looking for possible FTs, and thought one could be made around Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film and List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films are FLs, and if the main Academy Award page goes to GA status (which it might, as I see you've been working on it), then we would have a topic. However, I'm a bit uncertain whether List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films will be accepted as part of the topic, and was wondering whether we could split the country list in the winners and nominees list into its own list. That could be taken to FL status, and then we would have a fully rounded topic. Thoughts? sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 04:42, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Eh, "Foreign language films at the Academy Awards" likely would have far too large a scope, and it's difficult to even define a scope for it. It implies that we should include a comprehensive listing of every foreign language film ever at the Academy Awards, which would probably mean every submission list, etc. The title of the topic would simply be "Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film". If we can nail this one, then I'll look to see what we can do in terms of foreign language films (finding a more specific scope for instance). As for the country chart, I'm pretty sure it can be promoted. At worst, it's rejected at FLC and we simply merge it back to the winners and nominees article. As for the naming scheme, couldn't we simply change it to "List of submissions to the 80th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film"? It makes more sense then - submissions to the specific ceremony for the Best Foreign Language Film category, and we don't have to drastically change the names. As for the ability to verify the lists, it's one of the main reasons I haven't sent like 20 lists to FLC (considering that the older submission lists are like 15-20 items, which is a hell of a lot less work than the 40-50 items of the present day lists). Also, it's near-impossible to find general references for the country submission lists. Adtran gave me a reference for List of Japanese submissions for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and there already was a general reference on List of Czech submissions for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but I haven't found one for any of the other ones. Unless the Academy publishes the lists that Adtran is getting, then there's no way any of them can be sent to FLC (unless you get an alternative source). For lists short enough that I can put individual references (say List of Macedonian submissions for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film or List of Indonesian submissions for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film), they're too short to pass at FLC (which has a relative minimum of 10 items). At FLC, you need concrete references. BTW, shouldn't they be renamed to say "List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film"? sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 20:31, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Merging submission lists

I've noticed that we have several country submission lists with barely any content (1-2 items). IMO, they probably should be merged somewhere (perhaps to the relevant cinema page), as they're hardly substantial, and FLC has a general rule that lists need at least ten items to acquire FL status (exceptions exist, but not for traditional lists with table formats). As such, I propose we merge all country submission lists with three or fewer items. We certainly can recreate the lists if they are populated in the future (although that will be years in the future). List of Bangladeshi submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (four submissions) looks like a nice minimum figure for these lists. Also, good work on getting references for some of the '90s submission lists. sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 23:56, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

On second thought, maybe just two or fewer items. Three items might be fine for our purposes. sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 00:06, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Eh...I guess it could work, but then you're obligated to make the same types of lists for other geographic areas, and I'm not sure how that would work (you would have a {{main}} to all the separate lists, but the majority of these lists would consist of nothing but these links — therefore they would have no tables, and really just be a link farm — and wouldn't be suitable. I'm open to ideas on the matter though). IMO, just redirect the lists to the relevant cinema page, and then recreate them when they have enough items. Oh, and for working on Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, no worries. There's no hurry. sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 00:59, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Any objections if I redirect all of the submission lists with two or fewer items? I really think it's high time that we start this cleanup. sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 21:58, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

I've started a discussion on the lists here. Place your input there on the matter. And kudos on finding the German source, but unfortunately, blogs are not acceptable sources per WP:RS, and it won't be acceptable at WP:FLC. For instance, I found this source for the Italian submission lists, but it's not permissible as a reliable source. Cheers, sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 23:29, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Foreign Language Oscar Lists

Greetings from Tokyo, and thank you for the e-mail!

You, you are right...I e-mailed the Academy directly in Summer of 2007 and I have kept a copy of the e-mail, which I can provide to you in any format you like. I did not know how to "verify" this e-mail as a source. How shall I post it or send it to you?

It was always my intention to post the older lists at some point (I do not have access to them at the moment). I am the originator of all the Foreign Oscar Submission pages but an administrator has essentially taken over. The administrator deleted a lot of information I had included, and frankly I think I have lost interest. I fully 100% understand now that IMDB links and blog links are taboo on wikipedia, and that is fine by me. But the administrator in question deleted a lot of information that I still feel was relevant and interesting, and he changed a lot of things resulting in a lot of mistakes. The administrator even deleted certain countries' submissions, changed languages, etc. which made the pages less accurate. As you can see on my talk page, I tried very hard to come up with a compromise and offered to help, but the administrator was quite rude. In the last week, s/he erased the bulk of my work on individual country submission pages without explaining why (I had done this only on the Eastern European countries. See Belarus, Bosnia, Tajikistan etc.) I would not have been opposed to some judicious editing, but the wholesale deletion of my hard work without any stated reason hurt.

I have restored some of my information, but i know full well he will delete it again, despite wikipedia's policy to "Try to avoid deleting things as a matter of principle. When you amend and edit, it is remarkable how you might see something useful in what you might be about to remove. Almost everyone - including you - has something useful to say. Deletion upsets people and makes them feel they have wasted their time; at the very least leave some indication of your rationale in an edit summary, if not in an entry on a Talk page or in a message to a user or users you think might be perturbed by your action." But since the person is an administrator, I simply do not have the energy to fight back.

So, I did not seek to get the new information because I am afraid that my work will be deleted again. However, I will be able to assist you with any information you ask for!

A.D. in Tokyo Adtran (User talk:Adtran) 10:21, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

List of German submissions

Oh no, I just noticed while checking backlinks that you made already a list in your sandbox. Anyway, I just substantially expanded the List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and if I find the time I will add a bit more. That is the Europa Europa "controversy" should be included and a bit about how films are selected. This weblink has some good information on the selection procedure and the history of German submissions (it's sort of the official webpage, as it is by organization responsible for the selection procedure). Голубое сало/Blue Salo (talk) 07:54, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

I guess we had the same idea at the same time. I expanded the List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but I am not sure whether it all complies with the Manual of Style. I found a few additional interesting pages on www.german-films.de, including a complete list of all submissions from 1956 to 2007, thus the list can do with only one reference, that is the German Films reference. I also added a short section about nominations of German films in other categories, but not sure whether that is appropriate for this specific article which is after all about the Best Foreign Language film. Голубое сало/Blue Salo (talk) 10:34, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Great work! Although I am not very familiar with the criterias for a featured list it looks like a worthy candidate to me. Ideally one should also include some information on the selection procedure in East Germany, but I am afraid that it will be very difficult to find any information on that on the net or in print. I added the film candidacy page to my watch list, so if any objections pop up I will try to fix them. Голубое сало/Blue Salo (talk) 18:06, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Edward VIII template

This comment made at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Edward_VIII_abdication_crisis may be of interest to you.

I know it's not directly related to the article, but the navbox is using the wrong flag in one instance. The Canadian flag next to William Lyon Mackenzie King, Image:Canadian_Red_Ensign.svg, is the one used from 1957 to 1965. It should be Image:Flag of Canada 1921.svg, used between 1921 and 1957 as this event occurred in 1936.

--Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 23:48, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

That was my mistake; sorry. --G2bambino (talk) 00:14, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

No worries. On a happier topic, Edward_VIII_abdication_crisis is now an FA. :-) --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 00:27, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. I shall keep an eye on the discussion as it develops and participate when I feel I have something to contribute. Masalai (talk) 05:47, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

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