I'm not sure where all your anger is coming from. It appears to me that Dave is offering his opinion about credits since he is familiar with many of those that participated in the original research on the websites & thinks they deserve mention. I happen to agree since we have all greatly benefitted from the information over the years and I appreciate their efforts, as well as mcuddy's efforts to organize everything together.
Dave is not unnecessarily overcomplicating a cool project by adding credits, he has nothing to do with the project. He's offering his opinion, which others, including myself feel has some merit. People that don't agree with his opinion are free to ignore it, including mcuddy, the person who assembled the project, however, he seemed all but happy to add the credits.
If offering an opinion to include credits is championing a cause on someone's behalf, on whose behalf is the cause you are championing NOT to include the credits, since the project editor has no problem with it?
Anger? Sorry no anger here, just knew something didn't sound right as Paul Maul kept changing his tone on this. Throwing out worries about "permissions"(scare tactic) is not the same as "nice gesture"(good will), just a simple fact so it made me wonder about motive. That is my opinion and as you said, we are allowed to offer our opinions. Mine just happens to be supported with actual posts and words used. Now that we see Paul Maul got his credit, the motive and words used here align, all is right with the world.
I am not a big fan of razzle dazzle, instead, say what you mean, mean what you say, stand behind what you say. Leave smoke screens to the politicians.
In terms of accuracy. I see reference to Norm Saunders doing all of the series 1 art in the copyrighted "factual" "credit laden" section of text. Is that a fact? I have heard otherwise and anyone who knows anything about art will see a marked difference in the series 1 art versus mid series art. Some of the series 1 art is subpar. I bet when you dig deeper, you will find other artists were involved and Norm had to brush up their work to try to save it for die-cut series by trying desperately to add 3D rendering and such. My theory is that when they realized how much better Norm was than the others, Norm started doing 100% of the pieces as opposed to touch ups.
I don't know this guy Rusty but it seems there is quite a bit of hubris of the folks who keep saying "much", "some", "any" of his stuff is speculation but zero percent of their conclusions are "speculation"...perhaps I could be accused of Championing for Rusty, a person I know nothing, it would be a fair accusation
