[WikiEN-l] Attributing articles to their authors

[Shmuel Weidberg]

On Jan 24, 2008 7:51 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Nathan wrote:
> > Maybe you should copy a few articles into your userspace and add
> > credits to them in a way you think is appropriate. Once you've
> > completed that initial exercise, trial the articles (and they can't be
> > obscure stubs) in article space and see what people think. Be sure to
> > make note on the talk page of the trial and its purpose. That would be
> > a step more agreeable than trialing it on all new articles for a week
> > - most new articles have a single contributor, and a lot of them are
> > stubs or of low quality.
> That's a constructive suggestion for him.  While it might be over the
> top to suggest that he do this with [[George W. Bush]], perhaps choosing
> any article that has achieved FA status would be a good place to start
> for discovering just what kinds of problems such attributions will
> entail.  Getting credit for FAs could get competitive  when editors'
> prestige is at stake.

Thinking about what would be involved, it seems that it would be very
difficult to sift through hundreds of edits to determine who wrote
what. Anybody have any ideas about how to make it a manageable task?

Regards,
Ezra