2009/7/24 Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu>du>:
I believe the alternate usability interpretation is
more persuasive. That by
law they are required to provide attribution and yet many users are totally
unaware a) that they are required to provide attribution b) that a "free"
encyclopedia cares about attribution in the first place and c) of the
specifics of providing attribution. If we consider the burdens that I have
just outlined as compared with the burden of highlighting and deleting some
text its clear that automatically solving the 90% case for users is the
correct thing to do.
Maybe, but not by overiding the standard behaviour of copy and paste.
A link in the sidebar to details of how to attribute this article
would be better.