On 24/01/2008, Shmuel Weidberg ezrawax@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 3:04 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
In theory the idea that public credit should be given for good work is nice - it is simply unworkable for Wikipedia. What is public credit? What is good work? Who gets credit, in which order? Can you change the credits over time? Who decides?
Public credit as I mentioned would be a section at the end of the article much like Brittanica has. I don't believe they credit the minor editors.
A fundamental problem is that we make no distinction between "editors" and "authors", but there are very different cultural expectations for how those two classes of contributors to a work are recognised.