Jimmy Wales wrote:

Perhaps we could ask the wikitech-l list to add a field for "Source:", and the text there could say "Source (required!):".

Let's start irritating the developers. :-)

As a non-wikitech subscriber myself, someone else might want to let the developers know. Although I believe at least one or two developers have taken notice of the discussion here.

My primary concern is not to offend and annoy the many good people who have made perfectly valid contributions to date, and whose failure to give proper source attribution is not *their* fault, but rather mine, for not seeing to it that they were properly guided all along.

Agreed, not that I care to blame anyone at all for this problem. I'm more interested in getting a fix implemented, because it makes little sense to start a clean-up project if the same kind of mess is still being created.

--Michael Snow