[WikiEN-l] Attributing articles to their authors

[Thomas Dalton]

> The same people who edit the article can decide
> who gets credit. When you edit an article you can decide for yourself
> how much credit you deserve, and if some subsequent editor disagrees,
> they can change it, or discuss it on the talk page as with the the
> contents of the articles.

We get enough heated debates about content, can you imagine trying to
reach a consensus on whether or not a particular user's work is worth
crediting on the page? Pretty much everyone involved in the debate
will have a conflict of interest!