On 24/01/2008, Shmuel Weidberg ezrawax@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 3:22 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
We get enough heated debates about content, can you imagine trying to reach a consensus on whether or not a particular user's work is worth crediting on the page? Pretty much everyone involved in the debate will have a conflict of interest!
I think this fear is overstated. Even though people have a conflict of interest, I think that in the vast majority of times once a set of guidelines have evolved, there will rarely be any serious doubt about who should be credited. I would propose a pilot project just to see how it would work.
I think people will be reluctant to assign themselves more credit than they deserve because it doesn't look good. Even people who have a hard time with keeping to NPOV would probably find it easy to not take more credit than their due.
It doesn't need to happen often for it to be a problem. Even if 99.9% of articles never have a problem, that still leaves over 2000 articles that we'll have to fight over.