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@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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