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Originally Posted by UKBaseballfan
In my opinion the most significant missing piece is the pool of colorizers that you mentioned that could be "commissioned" (quotes added) to undertake the production of images.
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True, so IMHO the first task for the project manager would be to recruit a group of colorizers who are both interested in the era and willing to offer their services. Gambo was able to mobilize an excellent team for the facegen project. If you would like to launch a colorization project of similar scope, he may be a good resource to offer advice.
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Originally Posted by UKBaseballfan
I agree it makes sense to identify a need list in terms of color images , how that could be identified is open to debate. You mention a database I view the photopack as our database and if it does not include a color image then it should indicate a color image is missing.
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True, the photo pack itself could be the tracking list. I always prefer to have something that I can query and manipulate, which is why I mention a separate tracking database.
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Originally Posted by UKBaseballfan
Our viewpoints differ here as you have highlighted that you do not view a colorization as an upgrade on a black and white image for the purposes of the facepack. Presumably our differences in interpretation indicate why your version of the images in the facepack differ from those I have recently posted.
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Yes! This is something I've been trying to articulate unsuccessfully for the past few years. Thank you for summing it up nicely. It is simply a difference of opinion. I should also mention that your recent posts have prompted me to review the mid-1940s and during that review I've updated more than 50 images, including some colorizations. Thank you for focusing my attention on the needs in that era.
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Originally Posted by UKBaseballfan
Personally I have no issue with any thread that is being regularly updated on the site and I would wonder why others may find such a development to be unacceptable. In general though I agree that the differentiation of images into numerous threads is not necessarily beneficial. To my mind that would be the reason why you would start a new thread rather than include any such images in the main thread so in this respect I do not agree with your point.
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You're correct that this proposed project should have its own work area outside this thread. A reasonably small group of threads (5-10 active at a time) seems like a reasonable number. A large number of threads (one per year for the first 50 years of the 20th Century, for example), becomes too cumbersome to work around for the non-participating forum users.