On 12/21/06, Zoney zoney.ie@gmail.com wrote:
People who contribute on Wikipedia still own copyright to their content, they are merely licensing it under GFDL (and so others can use/modify/copy it, subject to the new work being under GFDL).
I understand the point of WP:OWN - but it's not an excuse to avoid crediting people for their work. Having the GFDL notice and history page is certainly good faith, but it doesn't really seem like particularly good or useful attribution. Most of the history page can be viewed as "spam" if you're looking at it with an interest in attribution - as the bulk of it is usually minor edits (formatting/language/style/accuracy tweaks) and vandalism/reverts. The more major the article is, and longer history it has, the more useless the history page is in this regard.
Right, I don't follow the concern about [[WP:OWN]] with respect to that suggestion.
No machine generated list of copyright holders is going to be right.. better to let the folks who are interested add their own name to the credits. Community standards (and bot based sanity checks) can make sure no one spams the credit page without editing the article.
::shrugs::