Thread:Twilight Man/@comment-4539185-20120623053832

Hey Twilight Man, I am sorry to bother you on such a topic, but I wish to discuss the crediting on Script pages. I do not wish for you to take it the wrong way by seing me remove all the users mentioned in the reference who are members of this wiki. Now to explain my reasoning:

Firstly, it is against this wiki's (and I believe a great majority of all others') for users to sign their edits, i.e. to leave their name on the page, claiming credit for the page, whether in part or in whole.

Secondly, eventhough you (or any other member) might have been the sole contributor to the page, or that is to say did most of the work for that page, that is still not a justification enough of having the user's name listed in the references. As an example, let us take a look at the virus pages for MMBN. Many of the virus pages have been contributed (gathered info, images, formated, etc.) by a single user, in most instances Doicm and in some cases me. Also, some of the sprites/images I have uploaded were ripped by myself and not taken form any other source, however, I claim no such credit by putting my name as a reference (I simply omit a reference in such a case). These are just a few of many examples of users making heavy contributions, but not crediting themselves.

And lastly, since this is a wiki, the page can and is very likely to be changed by someone someday, thus invalidating the claim for credit, due to being the sole contributor. (And if a counter argument is to be taken that the new person should be credited as well, then before you know it, the refenrece list will be saturated with many names of any contributer, no matter how litttle they contributed).

I only hope you understand my point of view, and did not "tl;dr" it :P. Due to this reason, I apologize for the length of my message. 