Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of German-language films

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The result was keep. The list distinguishes itself as fundamentally different than List of German films while what entries should be included is not a decision to be made in an AfD (or grounds for deletion). I see nothing that suggests the list is being overwhelmed by having a large scope and is arguably as large as List of German films or any other national film lists. Lists when too large can be broken down into sub-articles by year such as Lists of French films. (non-admin closure) Mkdw ^talk 07:11, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List of German-language films[edit]

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Redundant with Lists of German films. Professorjohnas (talk) 10:33, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The nominator is mistaken. Not all German-language films are German films, and vice-versa. Austrian films are in the German language, but are clearly not German films. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 10:52, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Lugnuts. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 15:05, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Lugnuts and my comment here. Lukeno94 (talk) 17:41, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Lugnuts' excellent point, plus that WP:CLN says categories and lists can overlap, if that is going to be a follow-up argument. Erik (talk | contribs) 20:44, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as having overly broad scope and being ill defined. What is a German-language film? Is Rush Hour (1998 film) dubbed in German a German-language film? If not, then what is the difference between a German-language film and a German film? -- Toshio Yamaguchi 20:52, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The vast majority of films have a primary language. You bring up an interesting point about dubbing, but I would argue that it should be the original language. Erik (talk | contribs) 20:55, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, there could be a problem with identifying a "primary" language. Wings of Desire has dialogue in six different languages. Although German is not one, Babel lists seven. To Rome with Love has a lot more English than Italian, but one of the stories is entirely in Italian. So what counts as "primary" (and whether a film can have more than one "primary" language) is not clear. Also, whether a language being significant in use while not a "primary" one is enough to qualify for a list like this is not clear. And if it is acceptable to list films with German as a "secondary" language, how much is enough for that to count? One line? Two? One scene?

If the decision is to keep the list page, I would recommend using whether or not a language is listed in the infobox on the individual film page as the criteria for inclusion. So Inglourious Basterds and Munich would make the list and despite some use of German, Gladiator would not. 99.192.51.184 (talk) 21:58, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep German is the language of multiple countries, as pointed out by Lugnuts. Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 23:28, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:01, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:01, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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