[WikiEN-l] Attributing articles to their authors

[White Cat]

There is a duplicate thread of this on foundation-l. I utterly and
wholeheartedly oppose inline crediting either for image or article authors.
It is impractical and problematic for many ways.

Contributing to wikipedia for the sake of self promotion feels like a
conflict of interest to me. Such a goal is not inline with the goal of
''free encyclopedia''

This may lead to corporate donation of images simply to spam. Wikipedia will
no longer be free (as in freedom) if we start allowing corporations to
dictate or manipulate our content for a price. Such a thing would actually
be in conflict with NPOV among other things.

The history link is there for a reason. Do you have any idea how many
authors some articles have?

     - White Cat


On Jan 24, 2008 8:24 PM, Shmuel Weidberg <ezrawax at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 23, 2008 6:43 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 23/01/2008, Rama Rama <ramaneko at gmail.com> wrote (on commons-l):
> >
> > > 2) There is definitely a trend of professional photographers to
> request
> > > credits under the image in articles. This is what they are accustomed
> to.
> > > I (and a few others) think that we should make efforts to sensibilise
> our
> > > users to this. We can definitely afford to credit people in articles.
> This
> > > is a small concession which costs us very little and can benefit us
> greatly.
>
> I think articles should also be attributed to their authors in the
> body of the article. Every major encyclopedia does it. Certainly there
> would be some debate about how much of a contribution should be
> required for attribution, and what form the attribution should take,
> whether real full names, wikipedia nicks, or real full initials.
>
> Regards,
> Ezra
>
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