[WikiEN-l] Attributing articles to their authors

[White Cat]

pres·tige  /prɛˈstiʒ, -ˈstidʒ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled
Pronunciation[pre-*steezh*, -*steej*] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA
Pronunciation –noun
1.reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other
favorable attributes.2.distinction or reputation attaching to a person or
thing and thus possessing a cachet for others or for the public: The new
discothèque has great prestige with the jet set.  –adjective
3.having or showing success, rank, wealth, etc.

How do you expect us to remain as an anti-elitist community if we make a big
deal of author crediting? Prestige is the last thing an author should be
seeking. FAness is no big deal.

    - White Cat

On Jan 25, 2008 2:51 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net > wrote:

> Nathan wrote:
> > Maybe you should copy a few articles into your userspace and add
> > credits to them in a way you think is appropriate. Once you've
> > completed that initial exercise, trial the articles (and they can't be
> > obscure stubs) in article space and see what people think. Be sure to
> > make note on the talk page of the trial and its purpose. That would be
> > a step more agreeable than trialing it on all new articles for a week
> > - most new articles have a single contributor, and a lot of them are
> > stubs or of low quality.
> That's a constructive suggestion for him.  While it might be over the
> top to suggest that he do this with [[George W. Bush]], perhaps choosing
> any article that has achieved FA status would be a good place to start
> for discovering just what kinds of problems such attributions will
> entail.  Getting credit for FAs could get competitive  when editors'
> prestige is at stake.
>
> Ec
>
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