[Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

Brian Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu
Wed Mar 11 05:27:56 UTC 2009


If there are no specifics instructions as to what a link is except
that it contains the correct url then I can argue that this is
sufficient attribution:

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some Article" rel="nofollow">source</a>

This is not the kind of attribution I have in mind.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Chris Down
<neuro.wikipedia at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Whilst I concur that we need to address more of the specifics, I would
> disagree that the proposal should incorporate rigidity about the link text
> itself. There are various contexts which this will potentially accompany,
> and I cannot imagine that there is a one-size-fits-all link title.
>
> - Chris
>
> On



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