It's more of a starting point, to flag editors who may have made the
edits. All that would remain is looking over if that user did in fact
make that edit (and if they didn't, it's back to square 1)
On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:38 PM [Jan 26, 2009 ], Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Robert Rohde
<rarohde(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
[snip]
When the license calls for attribution to be
treated in a
"reasonable"
way, I suspect that one could make a good case that relying on a good
blame engine would often generate a reasonable attempt at
attribution,
[snip]
Often, sure— But what happens when it fails and you have someone
yelling loudly on the talk page "Hey! it's misattributing my
authorship to some dumb bot, yet I wrote the whole thing!" ...
It's not reasonable by any human (or legal) standard to continue to
misattribute in a case like that, yet addressing that case with some
automatically generated report is not easy.
(and, of course, it's a great starting point… so long as someone
remembers to continually point out that its not a final answer).
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