User:WereSpielChequers/Copyright

I think it odd that we default to CC-BY-SA for all edits. I would suggest defaulting to CC0 for four types of edits, bots, reverts, IP edits and Minor edits. If I fix a typo in an article and mark my edit as minor, it seems logical to me that I am saying I don’t think that my edit merits listing me as a contributor to this article, OK not many reusers do list contributors and give attribution, but doing so would be easier if the list was shorter. With IPs I have never got the logic as to how one could combine attribution and anonymity, attribution and pseudonymity yes, but anonymity? So an article or page would only become CC-BY-SA if it was edited by a logged in editor who did not mark their account as a bot or their edit as minor or the contents of their edit as containing copyrighted material such as a template.

If a page is already CC-BY-SA then an edit by a bot, IP, or minor edit would be a CC0 Edit creating a new CC-BY-SA version of the page, a revert would be a CC0 edit to go back to a previous CC-BY-SA version of the page.

This change would bring us more into line with the copyrights that we use, and differentiate between editors who want attribution re an article and those who don’t.

It would also put meaning into the difference between editing as an IP and with an account - you want attribution? Fine, login to an account with a name or pseudonym that we can attribute to.

It also enables creating a list of editors who have meaningfully contributed to an article. So we could add to user preferences something to the effect of notify me if this page is deleted or tagged for deletion. With an option to set that for pages created or edited without being marked minor.