On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, I find bug 27629 to be insufficient, since each author might ask for a specific way to be quoted (e.g. some disclaimer associated with the content).
It is understandable why they might ask for such a disclaimer, but it isn't clear why we would agree to put it on the article, unless we also give every Wikipedia editor who edits the article the ability to add their own disclaimer. The point of free content is that content incorporated from other sources is not different than content written directly for our project. Each source of content should ideally be credited in a similar way, whether the source is another free-content project or a local editor.
On English Wikipedia, we often credit external authors in the article itself (see [[:en:Category:Attribution templates]]). These do show up in a PDF created from the article. If there was a way to move these into metadata for the article, that would also work, but the idea of adding a disclaimer to the article itself seems to differ from usual practice which is just to list the source.
- Carl