[WikiEN-l] Attributing articles to their authors

[Nathan]

I think the whole idea of attribution of text in the body of the
article is misguided, and I doubt that it will ever be implemented in
Wikipedia or for that matter any Wikimedia project (with the possible
exception of Wikinews).

Attribution sufficient for copyright is in the edit history, and
anything further would be extraordinarily disruptive and contentious.
We've got enough of that at the moment to last us for years. Wikipedia
is a collaborative project, and articles are written by anyone at any
time - so the only true attribution for the current state of an
article at any particular time is to the "Wikipedia community" not
"Editor So And So, Who Wrote Two Paragraphs 5 Years Ago."

On Jan 24, 2008 2:01 PM, Chris Howie <cdhowie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2008 1:50 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As for how to attribute - it has
> > to be by pseudonym since that's all we know, if people want to be
> > credited under their real name they need to sign up under their real
> > name, or get renamed to it.
>
> Or add a preferences field "name for attribution."  I personally would
> rather edit under a pseudonym but if I were given credit I would
> prefer my real name to be used.
>
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> Chris Howie
> http://www.chrishowie.com
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