The discussion you think is finished resulted in a policy on Meta that
defers to local communities and at least one community that adopted a
standard of zero edits.
I would say that is prima facie evidence that the discussion was not
finished the way you think.
-Robert Rohde
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
This discussion was finished a long time ago. We are passed the point where
objections on principle are even reasonable.
As I indicated earlier, a single project cannot and should not stand in the
way of the implementation of global policies. This was discussed ad
nauseam.
Even when a local policy is "reasonable", it does not make it reasonable in
the larger scale of things. There is no reason why the attribution is to be
linked by the self chosen user name, the only thing relevant is that it is
correctly attributed to the user involved. This argument is problematic
anywaw as people can request a name change and in that case attribution
changes as well.
Indeed it can be frustrating for some and it will be frustrating to some.
This was understood from the start.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Robert Rohde <rarohde(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<
gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
The number of edits of an account has been a consideration in that the
one
with the biggest numbers can have the price. With
6000 edits a user can
be
> found with less edits then a user from another project. By giving
> precedence
> to admins of projects a new ballgame may exist. There are many people
in
> this group who are active in MANY wikis and
when you combine their
number
of
edits, you may find really high numbers.
I do not think that usurpation policies should be determined by
individual
projects. There are too many of them, some 700,
and consequently things
would break down.
Thanks,
GerardM
The principle behind enwiki's policy is still reasonable though.
Attribution is a fundemental legal expectation under the GFDL. We
attribute
edits under our self-chosen psuedonyms. I'm not convinced that
involuntarily renaming accounts that have an established edit history is
either ethical or legal.
I know the SUL proposal has been to give the account to the most
established
user, but it's not clear to me that doing so is appropriate. An
unfortunate
consequence of that is that some popular names might never be unified,
but
personally, I'm inclined to think that the
only way to be fair to some
existing users may well be to frustrate others.
-Robert Rohde
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