2009/3/11 Bence Damokos <[email protected]>: > From an attribution point of view, the definition of "full list of authors" > that excludes very small contributions is not really acceptable to me. > Imagine, that Joe only corrects spelling mistakes: arguably very small > contributions - you wouldn't say he is the author of the articles. Now > imagine, that you would print a hundred articles that Joe has corrected, and > you omit his name from the list of authors - for he has minor contributions. > I think Joe would be a bit upset that he is not credited, even though > without his small contributions the articles would be unpublishable.
I think a distinction needs to be made between an aggregate of small changes, or a single small change. I'm not sure this distinction needs to be made more explicitly in this language, though: if someone has made an aggregate of small changes, they have arguably not made "very small or irrelevant" contributions to an article. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
