On Thursday 22 January 2009 20:55:21 Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/1/22 Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu:
On Thursday 22 January 2009 19:52:28 Thomas Dalton wrote:
Requirement would be to give credit via the credit URL, and by mentioning the principal authors listed at that URL. What authors will be listed at that URL is something that we may change at our leisure: for example, this may be the proposed list of five authors, or none if more than five; or it may be a list of authors that is no longer than 1% of the length of the article, or none of longer; or, when appropriate software is developed, the list of principal authors as recognised by the software; it may even differ from project to project, for example Wikisource may choose to credit the authors manually (it is already doing something similar); and so on and so forth.
Any system other than crediting everyone or crediting no one requires choosing people. How do you propose that to be done? And why doesn't the person that contributed the 6th most text (say) not deserve to be credited for their work?
I don't agree with that; I do believe that every author with significant (copyrightable) contribution should be credited.
So what was all that about only crediting 5 authors, or a list of authors less than 1% of the article length, or whatever else?
These are examples of possibilities for people who disagree with me.