Anthere wrote:

Grumble...another mailing list...grumble

Absolutely!!! Attrition is inevitable.

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This is a very good point. I have brought it up before. Really, if you move text from one page (or

from one language version to another) as part of the

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move you should analyze the text and determine who

the >five major contributors are and list them in the

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summary box. How to determine who the five major contributors are? Should it be via the amount of

text >each

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contributes? Or the number of ideas? How to count ideas? Perhaps an alternative is to state where the page comes from that way someone should be able to work back and find out who made the contribution. ... Alex756

Applying any of these criteria, except for the five most recent contributors, can be the type of time-consuming process that people tend to avoid.

AieAieAie, I think, reading comments by Alex, Martin, Ec...that it would be best that we just abandon this notion of authorship.

It would still be a good idea to always indicate the origin of a content moved from another place in the comment box.

Comment boxes just appeared one day without much discussion about how to use them in contrast to the article's talk page. I've just ignored the feature.

Ec