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

[Marco Chiesa]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Strainu <strainu10 a gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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?
>

Actually, following the same philosophy, one should wonder whether the
person reverting from version B to version C should be kept in the
contributor's list. At the end of the day, version C is an exact copy of
version A (i.e. no creative input of editor C), and version B is a
derivative version of version A, but versions C+1 and following are not
derivative versions of B, only of A and previous.


>
> 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?
>

I guess a pseudonym is the correct way to deal with this situation

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