Talk:Text Directionality Draft

Please see the associated Text Directionality Draft Questions document for some issues to think about before and after reading this draft, and feel free to respond there and to add new questions.

Attribution

Sometimes one well-chosen example organizes an entire section, or even chapter, and is a guarantee of success. In cases where such an example comes from a helpful soul that is not automatically credited in the wiki article history, it's good to provide the attribution immediately, for fear that the contribution gets forgotten and some awkwardness may ensue, in the end. I'm sure the final version would mention Efraim Feinstein as the source of the Hebrew example, but we know how sometimes drafts get stalled and all. I suggest to go ahead and attribute at once, as a general principle. Great read, by the way, and very enlightening -- thanks! Piotr 13:17, 6 November 2013 (EST)

Thanks Piotr -- I agree completely, and I've added the attribution. I'm not sure whether an attribution like this should make it into the final Guidelines prose, though -- I don't remember any examples of that in the existing prose, and even Guidelines sections are (correctly) not attributed to individual authors. Richard Ishida from the W3C has also provided some helpful guidance, as have the other members of the workgroup of course.