by Mike Thomason » Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:33 am
Apologies, I haven't made myself clear and thereby seek to clarify. When I posted up a number of images from the film in January (some virtually identical to ones you have, some marginally different frames) no-one was able to identify the actors specified. Now that you have posted up images for identification, some near identical to the ones I originally posted, some of these actors have now been rather swiftly identified (in particular: Lee Chi-Hei, Siu Huen and Chan Lai-Hing) even though we have had no major changes in the core editing team.
This seems to indicate, to me at least, that some individuals are more openly (though unstatedly) acknowledged as editors over others, thereby essentially making my position as an editor within this team moot. I just found it kind of ironic that, though we had both posed nearly the same ID requests, you had far more success for the DB than I did -- even though we're still virtually the same team we were when I posted my original ID requests. Obviously, I can't say whether or not there was an editor who knew these IDs and chose not to ID them for whatever reason at the time, or if we have gained someone since my original post that is more attuned to lesser known identities; however, this incident has drawn to light an interesting area to me and it is one I will ponder further in coming days before I make a definite decision as to future directions.