[Wikilegal-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] since we are on legal matters ...

[Ray Saintonge]

Anthere wrote:

>Grumble...another mailing list...grumble
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Absolutely!!!  Attrition is inevitable.

>>This is a very good point. I have brought it up
>>before. Really, if you move text from one page (or
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>>from one language version to another) as part of the
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>>move you should analyze the text and determine who
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>the >five major contributors are and list them in the
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>>summary box. How to determine who the five major
>>contributors are?  Should it be via the amount of
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>text >each
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>>contributes? Or the number of ideas?  How to count
>>ideas?
>>Perhaps an alternative is to state where the page
>>comes from that way someone should be able to work
>>back and find out who made the contribution.
>>...
>>Alex756
>>
Applying any of these criteria,  except for the five most recent 
contributors, can be the type of time-consuming process that people tend 
to avoid.

>AieAieAie, I think, reading comments by Alex, Martin,
>Ec...that it would be best that we just abandon this
>notion of authorship.
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>It would still be a good idea to always indicate the
>origin of a content moved from another place in the
>comment box.
>
Comment boxes just appeared one day without much discussion about how to 
use them in contrast to the article's talk page.  I've just ignored the 
feature.

Ec

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