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.
Ec