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[John at Darkstar]

Adding authors, even if they write under pseudonyms, gives due credit as
described in the copyright laws of several countries and also gives
those persons added cultural capital. I guess someone can elaborate
about how cultural capital and economic capital can be traded, and how
this can offset the situation whereby one encyclopedia can pay its
authors while an other can't. Or in fact, one of the encyclopedias both
pays the authors and gives attributes them for the work they do.

John

Gerard Meijssen skrev:
> Hoi,
> Ok let me rephrase my question, what would the benefit be to the reader ? In
> my opinion there is no benefit. The fact that this information can be found
> in the history data is sufficient. There is no obvious way who to include
> and why. For instance there are some who do not rate the person who includes
> an illustration while the person who created the illustration is
> considered.. Really, you open a can of wurms and there is no clear and
> obvious benefit.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
> 
> 2009/2/26 Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com>
> 
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Gerard Meijssen
>> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hoi,
>>> What would you achieve by doing that and, what would it mean for our down
>>> stream users ? In my opinion this is not where we want to go at all.
>> What it would achieve is that the reader has more of an idea who wrote
>> what he is reading. The consequence for our downstream users seems
>> little - depending on the exact form we use it is nothing, something
>> extra to include or something extra to decide on whether to include or
>> not.
>>
>>
>> --
>> André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
>>
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