[Wikimedia-l] Is the capability to delete usernames compatible with the CCBYSA license?

[Ilya Korniyko]

Answer to the first question is very simple - C is derived from A, not
vandalized B revision.


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Strainu <strainu10 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Someone brought up an interesting issue: is it moral for the vandals
> to be credited as contributors to articles (especially when exporting
> the article as pdf)? After experimenting a little, it turns out that
> deleting the usernames from the history removes them from the
> contributor list.
>
> While morality is a subjective matter, a more interesting question is:
> is this behavior compatible with the CCBYSA license? Say we have
> version A of a text, vandalised in version B and reverted in revision
> C. Then version C is a work derived from version B, shouldn't it
> credit the full author list of version B?
>
> Going further, say that someone with an offensive username (or even
> just an username unaccepted on wikipedia, such as a company name)
> actually makes a valid edit, which is not reverted, but the name is
> removed from the history. Is it fine to ignore the license just
> because we find some usernames offensive? Shouldn't we instead credit
> the user *at least* with a pseudonym?
>
> Thanks,
>    Strainu
>
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