Jeff Raymond wrote:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
So you think that every sentence should have a tag denoting who wrote the sentence?
Every sentence, no. Every section that takes its reference from a specific source, yes. I come from a history background, I'm a bit intense about sourcing.
This would open up a whole different can of worms: Ownership. The scope for editing images is not as wide as for text, so a person uploading an image is less likely to have another editor come along and turn it into something else, and using that as a basis for an edit war. Thus it is easier to give personal credit to a Wikipedian for a photograph.
With text, however, we have long held the notion that it may be brutally edited I don't think that any of us wants to deal with the situation where an editor defends his own text on the grounds that his prose style is better than anyone else's.
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