On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Strainu <strainu10(a)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