Category:Attribution to and merit-based distinguishment of humans

 See also category: Categories by creator.

Attribution to and merit-based distinguishment of humans may for example have impact on the weight assigned to people's opinions or non-evidence-based input in some types of decision-making or illustrate contemporary feedback mechanisms.

One example are open letters by academics separately listing the number of signees who are IPCC authors or Nobel prize winners. In Wikipedia, the xTools Authorship software allows some imperfect evaluation of contribution of users to a specified page. In software development, websites like GitHub can be used to attribute a free software to its developers.

This category is for attribution to the level of individual humans, not groups of humans or organizations.