2009/1/22 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
This is a constructive and useful proposal, thank you.
I agree with Milos when he states in another thread that we need to think further about a solution that is satisfactory to a greater number of people, at least when it comes to standardizing attribution requirements with effective application to all past edits ever made. (At minimum, I would like some more data to inform our decisions.) I also believe that the Wikimedia Foundation can responsibly and reasonably determine what attribution model it wants to apply going forward.
So what exactly is the problem with requiring credit "reasonable to the medium or means"?
For example, if WMF decides that a guaranteed by-name attribution is not reasonable, scalable, and detrimental to the goals of WMF, it can responsibly tell people that.
It can however it would generally be expected that it provides a reason. A reason that is logically consistent with observed reality would probably be preferable.