[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Ethics Question

[Allen Flick]

"Patrick R. Michaud" wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 10:37:44AM -0500, Stephen Davidson wrote:
> > dmyhand610 wrote:
> >
> > >I am a High School teacher and I teach Web building among other
> > >subjects, and one of my duties is to maintain the High School
> > >Website.  Prominently displayed on the Site is the name of my
> > >predecessor, and the fact that she created the site.  [...]
> > >I am still
> > >being urged to remove her name, and by more people.  Should I do this
> > >or stick to my ethical guns (Which is what I am still convinced is
> > >right to do)?  Thanks, Dennis
> > >
> > Created by: Other person
> > Maintained by: You.
>
> Indeed, you could probably remove the "created by" attribution altogether,
> and just say "maintained by: <address>" and leave it at that.
>
> But I understand and approve of your desire to give credit where credit
> is due.  Instead of having the creator's name "prominently displayed" on
> the site, perhaps you could move authorship/site credits such as
> this to a separate page?  This also gives more options for giving credit
> to others as they make contributions to the site, while recognizing the
> efforts of the original creator.
>
> Note that moving the creator/credits info to another page doesn't mean
> that the maintainer's (your) contact info should not be readily available
> and prominent on the site--the usual purpose of having such info visible
> on a site is to provide readers with a point of contact if they have
> questions or problems with the site, as opposed to giving credit to the
> site's creators.
>

You could put all this info on the commonly used "About" page.