[Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

[Michael Snow]

Anthony wrote:
>> a) a link (URL) to the history page of the article
>> or other page that contains the authorship
>> information of the articles you are re-using.
>>     
> For offline copies, that would likewise be no attribution at all.
>   
Can we please drop the nonsense that a URL is "no attribution at all" in 
an offline context? I've made this point before, but URLs do not 
suddenly become devoid of meaning just because you're using a medium 
where you can't follow a hyperlink. I could just as soon say that print 
media aren't acceptable sources for Wikipedia articles because you can't 
check them by following a hyperlink, it's the same logic. We allow 
references that adapt the conventions of other media to our context, we 
should allow people using other media the same privilege in adapting our 
conventions to their context.

--Michael Snow