2006/4/1, geraki(a)geraki.net <geraki(a)geraki.net>et>:
When someone copies some text that is under the GFDL
to a wikipedia article, the
rule is to write about it on the bottom of the article to pay attribution. I
think this is not fair for users of wikipedia, as for them the only attribution
is in the History section. Take as an example an article of five paragraphs, two
from some other GFDL source and three from a user contributions. The X source
will me mentioned in the article, while the user will be mentioned only in
history, among minor edits and bot edits. Remember that the GFDL says that
authors should be mentioned in a section entitled "History" not in the
Document.
The GFDL also says that authors (or at least the last author and the
five main authors of the previous document) should be shown on the
title page, which for a Wikipedia page would be the area between the
title and the start of the article. Why follow the letter of the GFDL
at one place, and follow neither letter nor spirit on another?
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