While making several of review crossposts for the Decade Review I found myself unhappy about the possibility that someone might think I had authored one of the posts I was cross-linking. Here are the things I ended up doing:
Make each post a link post (this one seems… non-optional).
In the title of the post, add the author / blog / organization’s name before the post title, separated by an en-dash.
Why before the title? This ensures that the credit appears even if the title is long and gets cut off.
Why an en-dash? Some of the posts I was linking already included colons in the title. “Evidence Action – We’re Shutting Down No Lean Season, Our Seasonal Migration Program: Here’s Why” seemed easier to parse than “Evidence Action: We’re Shutting Down No Lean Season, Our Seasonal Migration Program: Here’s Why”.
Add an italicized header (ETA: I think a footer works better) to the crosspost indicating that it’s a crosspost and, where appropriate, adding a link to the author’s EA Forum account.
Example: Because of the ongoing Decade Review I am re-posting some classic posts under the review crosspost tag. With their permission, this post may eventually appear under the original author’s account. This post is from December 19, 2014.
While making several of review crossposts for the Decade Review I found myself unhappy about the possibility that someone might think I had authored one of the posts I was cross-linking. Here are the things I ended up doing:
Make each post a link post (this one seems… non-optional).
In the title of the post, add the author / blog / organization’s name before the post title, separated by an en-dash.
Why before the title? This ensures that the credit appears even if the title is long and gets cut off.
Why an en-dash? Some of the posts I was linking already included colons in the title. “Evidence Action – We’re Shutting Down No Lean Season, Our Seasonal Migration Program: Here’s Why” seemed easier to parse than “Evidence Action: We’re Shutting Down No Lean Season, Our Seasonal Migration Program: Here’s Why”.
Other approaches I’ve seen: using colons, including the author’s name at the end of the post in brackets, e.g. Purchase fuzzies and utilons separately (Eliezer Yudkowsky), using “on” instead of an en-dash, e.g. Kelsey Piper on “The Life You Can Save”, which seems correct when excerpting rather than cross-posting.
Add an italicized
header(ETA: I think a footer works better) to the crosspost indicating that it’s a crosspost and, where appropriate, adding a link to the author’s EA Forum account.Example: Because of the ongoing Decade Review I am re-posting some classic posts under the review crosspost tag. With their permission, this post may eventually appear under the original author’s account. This post is from December 19, 2014.