Since we are on legal matters, I would like that enlightement is brought to me on a GFDL license point : the one that is about authorship :-)
Mav claims I am illegally removing the credit for text I did not write myself.
I answered that I mentionned in the comment box that I was not the original author, hence not doing anything illegal and definitly not stealing anyone else job.
Mav answers : Wrong. Read the author credit areas of the GNU Free Documentation License.
So my question is : if none of us has the right to attribute to himself the credit of something written by someone else, what happen to all the major amount of text that is regularly clipped from one article, and moved to another page by someone who is not the original author of the text ? How does the licence handle that ? If the moved text contains legal issues, who is said liable, the lost original author, or the one who took the responsability of the move and who is consequently the owner of the edit?
And is commenting in the comment box that we are not the original author of the edit not enough to insure legal rights of authorship are respected ? What are we supposed to do when moving someone else work ? Is commenting enough ? Or not ? Should we leave a message in the talk page ?
Depending on the answers provided (I really understand little of the gfdl matters :-))
I would like also to have an old edit of mine restored as *mine*, as I was the main author of it.
It is there http://en2.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Agricultural_science&action=...
The edits credited to Maveric and Robert Merkel are mine entirely. It was my fifth edit as Anthere. And my additions still constitute very much the core of the current article. It was a welcome present to the newbie Anthere that it was credited to someone else.
Not to be a pain either, but I would like as well, that the creation of the article "Trade war over genetically modified food" credited to Graft, be credited to me, as the content was my work (Graft just excised it from "genetically modified food" that I had made a few days before) and as most of the article is still essentially my work.
It is here http://en2.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Trade_war_over_genetically_modif...
Now,
* either legal issues are used to attack other wikipedians in dishonest ways, and if my work being credited to other people is making these edits illegal, then I really would like that these credits taken by other people be given back to me, to respect the license. I would not like that the license is not respected :-) In this case, any major move from one article to another should also mention clearly all the main authors of the piece moved.
* or we admit that we are together building an encyclopedia, that ownership is secondary in our building process, and that what is important is the content, not the author. I would very much prefer that option :-)
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