On 12/8/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 12/8/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
We may pretend it does not matter at all; but the truth is that most authors are proud of their work. And it is hard to be striped of one's authorship. If it were not true, we would not be so numerous to list articles we wrote.
We should add an *editable* history section. Call it the history namespace. Put a link to it next to the link to the talk page. Automatically add a username to it when the user edits a page (at least if they are making a new edit for the year), and manually add a username to it when text is copied.
It seems to me that this could be resolved by properly referencing the source of the material in the summary. For example, copied from WP:AFC request per [[User:ip.add.res.s]]. And editors should be instructed when copying information from one article to another - to put the version of the source article just prior to the cut in the target article summary.
This would point them to the article before the cut and reference the authors that created the source article up until then.
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