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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
