[Foundation-l] Commons Usurp issue

[Andrew Whitworth]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:22 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/6/4 George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>:
>> If an usurped account owner complains, along these lines, our
>> counterargument is "We still list (your account / identity) in the
>> article history, though we've changed the displayed text string for
>> it.  That's all we do for anyone, ever."
>
> Nice try but the GFDL isn't interested in account / identities just
> the text string.

The GFDL is concerned with authors, not their arbitrarily chosen
pseudonyms. So long as the invariant list of authors is properly
attributed, it does not matter what nickname they use to sign into the
website.

--Andrew Whitworth