On Jan 24, 2008 7:51 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)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