Credit and Accountability
Keeping a record of who made what, and what conditions made a result possible, is necessary for responsibility and learning.
But credit must not become a justification for ownership or domination.
What to retain
- Contributions such as initiating, making, maintaining, translating, and caring.
- Quotations, references, and materials that influenced the work.
- Reasons for decisions and their revision history.
- Where benefits and burdens were distributed.
What to avoid
- Collecting names around only visible outcomes while erasing invisible labor.
- Removing sources in order to perform originality.
- Turning the scale of a contribution into a ranking of human dignity.
A person may choose not to be named. Even then, it must remain visible who holds responsibility and how errors can be corrected.
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