On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 12:04:05PM +0200, Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen wrote:
I don't see the point. If there are so many edits that the source reference disappears, the content will likely not resemble the original anyway.
Could be, could also not be. There may be a lot of little Wikification edits that still leave the original article largely intact.
Also, source references need not be interspersed with edit notices, but could be placed at the bottom or at the top, or something. The point is that this is the page where authorship is described, and so source references (with regards to copyright tracing) belong here.
I agree that the History would be an obvious place for the credits. However, "reusing" the Talk-page concept means that it will be easy to program and has an easy-to-understand user interface, including the possibility to re-edit the credits in case they are forgotten, too imprecise or simpy incorrect.
-- Jan Hidders