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What a great idea. The task that I created when I first came to this wiki, best shuffle, is also in there. Cool! -- To have a long list of contributors and task authors in a book like this, I don't see what purpose that would serve. Nobody cares. [[User:Fwend|Fwend]] 17:53, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
: The problem is that with who-knows-how-many authors in various bits throughout RC, someone ''might'' care. So it's generally best to act on a pessimistic reading. CYA sucks, but it is what it is.--[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 23:04, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
: I find this situation ridiculous.
: You may be technically correct that the book authors should cite original contributors for each task (I'm not even sure about that, GFDL 1.2 doen't seem to say so for ''verbatim copy''), but what a lot of good that will do. Given a task name, it's straightforward to look it up on RC and check its history, and the book makes very clear that RC was the source. I don't think they are obliged to provide a link for each task, which wouldn't make sense in a printed book any way; to satisfy the technicality, they however would have to look through each task's history and figure out who should be classified as its significant contributors, probably ''by hand'' (MikeMol's proposed automation isn't really going to guarantee complete correctness in this department). What would all this undue burden give us? Distracting and goofy attributions like "task originally by Paddy1234" or "by Ledrug" or some such, which neither the book authors nor readers really care -- and those aren't even real names. All this wasted effort, for something one could easily look up in the first place.
: GFDL, CC and various other licenses were designed to promote share and reuse of ideas; getting all worked up as if Abu & Co. were trying to steal your life's work (I'm pretty sure they weren't) is quite contrary to that spirit. Technically it's within your right to demand attribution, but, to me, that doesn't make your desire of being credited wherever possible any less petty.
: (The above are my personal, original opinions; they would normally have been available under the terms of GFDL 1.2 per RC copyright policy, but I hereby release these four paragraphs, including this one, into public domain.) --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 02:08, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
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