Sunday, December 24, 2006, 6:36:55 PM, Anthony wrote:
2) It's a
terrific vandalism tool which is, I believe, why wikia turned it off.
Considering the ability to "remove_credits", I don't see why
it's any
better of a vandalism tool than any other. Care to elaborate?
(according to
http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Attribution, it was
removed for performance reasons)
I think there should be something similar for images: the author could
be extracted from the template found in the commons/en.wiki image description
page.
My objection is against mixing encyclopedic content with credits.