Talk:The Banquet (1991 film)

message: Does the film focus on Chinese food, as, for example, Eat Drink Man Woman? Badagnani 19:11, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Focuses on Chinese food?

message: Please do not blank data (particularly as regards very notable actors in this film) without discussing first, thanks. We're a community and unilateral, undiscussed blanking is usually considered a bad thing. This film is particularly notable for including a large number of well known actors and actresses, and many of those blanked from the cast list are huge stars. Wikipedia is not paper and there's no reason why we cannot have a very good, comprehensive article about this subject. It's as deserving of comprehensive treatment as any other article on any other film.  Badagnani 10:02, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blanking 

message: I agree with User:Badagnani. As one of the editors of this article, I will endeavour to locate some sources to support it. I believe that if anyone finds articles that they feel are missing sources, rather than simply deleting swathes of information that people have spent time and effort compiling, a better course of action would be to go looking for the sources yourself to support (or refute) the article's content. We are here to create and improve articles, so why just delete content without good reason? If the user who deleted the content is an Admin, then they should know better. And if they can't be bothered to locate sources for the article themselves, then adding the "unreferenced" template saying "this article doesn't cite it's sources" would be sufficent.
In most film articles, where there is an exhaustive cast list, I would agree that it does not really improve the article. Under normal circumstances, it should probably be left to key cast members and important cameos.
However, I believe that this particular film is different. A large number of Hong Kong actors and crew were involved, as they were all lending their support to the charitible cause for which the film was made. It is therefore an integral part of the article, more important, even, than the plot of the film. Gram123 14:01, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is well reasoned. We are all here (or should be) for the same reasons, to work together to build the best and most comprehensive encyclopedia possible. Sourcing is important so we shall source. Badagnani 14:08, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cast list

message: I've been correcting some of the names in the article.
I also went through all of the red linked names, and searched for the Chinese (Cantonese, I think) names for these actors, then tried looking on Wikiepedia for the Chinese versions just in case.
I considered adding these to the article as it makes it a little clearer who these red-link people are, but if there's no article, it may just be irrelevant extra detail.
Anyway, I'll list them here and it may help should anyone want to create articles for any of these people.
English name (Chinese name)
* Jamie Luk (Luk Kim-Ming)
* Gabriel Wong (Wong Yat-San)
* Eric Kot (Kot Man-Fai)
* Meg Lam (Lam Kin-Ming)
* May Lo (Lo Mei-Mei)
* Fennie Yuen (Yuen Kit-Ying)
* Ku Feng (aka Guk Fung)
* Waise Lee (Lee Chi-Hung)
* Mars (Chiang Wing-fat / Feng Sing)
* Barry Wong (Wong Ping-Yiu)
* Melvin Wong (Wong Gam-Sam)
* Pauline Yeung (Yeung Bo-Ling)
* Mimi Zhu (Chu Mi-Mi)
* Billy Lau (Lau Nam-Kwong)
* Anglie Leung (Leung Wan-Yuin)
* Tommy Wong (Wong Kwong Leung)
* Lowell Lo (Lo Koon-Ting)
Gram123 12:22, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Names