2009/1/23 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
A single URL could point to a list of all contributors for all articles.
Not under your proposal "attribution via reference to page histories is acceptable if there are more than five authors."
I do agree with you, Mike and others who have pointed out that we want to retain flexibility in application. I'm not arguing for absolutely rigid attribution requirements, and to the extent that the current proposal suggests that, it should be revised. I am, however, arguing for articulating principles and demonstrating them through guidelines and examples, so that there's no ambiguity about our general understanding of what we mean with reasonable applications.
What we mean? Err we didn't write the license or the laws that it operates under. What we mean isn't relevant.