On 24/01/2008, Shmuel Weidberg ezrawax@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 4:08 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
It doesn't need to happen often for it to be a problem. Even if 99.9% of articles never have a problem, that still leaves over 2000 articles that we'll have to fight over.
I really don't think it's a problem. There are plenty of resources. There will always be people who will be happy to adjudicate cases like this. I think questions about authorship will come up less often than requests for article deletion. And many of those debates are even more stupid than the ones that would come up about article attribution.
Are you sure there will be people willing to adjudicate? I certainly wouldn't want to be the one to tell someone their contribution isn't worthy of credit. There are plenty of people willing to adjudicate content disputes, sure, but this isn't about content, it's about people, and that changes things.