Speaking as volunteer Moonriddengirl and not at all from my work position - according to my understanding, attribution can be supplied by a list of usernames. Per our Terms of Use:[1]

1. *Attribution:* Attribution is an important part of these licenses. We consider it giving credit where credit is due – to authors like yourself. When you contribute text, you agree to be attributed in any of the following fashions: 1. Through hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the article to which you contributed (since each article has a history page that lists all authors and editors); 2. Through hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy that is freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and which provides credit to the authors in a manner equivalent to the credit given on the Project website; or 3. Through a list of all authors (but please note that any list of authors may be filtered to exclude very small or irrelevant contributions).

Revdeletion removes the text, but unless applied to that field specifically does not eliminate the name from the list of usernames in the history. :) Attribution would seem to remain intact in accordance with the TOU.

Maggie

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Jonatan Svensson Glad < gladjonatan@outlook.com> wrote:

From: gladjonatan@outlook.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: To revdel (RD1) or not to revdel. That is a question.... Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:38:16 +0200

I have had some discussions w/ users on IRC about the need to revdel/legal obligation to revdel copyvios. If it had copyvios in it but has since been edited and rewritten, and no longer can be deleted per G12, nor revdeled per RD1 (since then it would ruin attribution, if the user had actually written something themself). How should the example below be revdeled handled? Example:Revision 1. mixed copyvio and own words by user X.Revision 2. Fixed typos by User Y.Revision 3. User Z rewrote the coied tex, left user X own words.

How should this be revdeled, and how should this be atributed? (sorry for my bad English....)

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