Ray Saintonge wrote:
This would open up a whole different can of worms: Ownership. The scope for editing images is not as wide as for text, so a person uploading an image is less likely to have another editor come along and turn it into something else, and using that as a basis for an edit war. Thus it is easier to give personal credit to a Wikipedian for a photograph.
True. But no one's really claiming "ownership" here as much as credit. will people confuse the two? Sure, but people already do.
With text, however, we have long held the notion that it may be brutally edited I don't think that any of us wants to deal with the situation where an editor defends his own text on the grounds that his prose style is better than anyone else's.
Ever been to WP:FAC? d;-)
Also, Merry Christmas to all celebrants.
-Jeff