Fortunately keeping people happy isn't the purpose of wikipedia, and it's good that the editors haven't lost sight of that.
Take something as innocuous as calculus. Who discovered it? British say newton did. The germans credit leibniz. What should the editors do? Flip a coin. Credit both? Credit neither since neither discovered the concept of 'the limit'.
It's like this but far worse for many topics.
Everything seems simple because we lived in our own national propaganda ecosystem. But with the internet, wikipedia must try to pick 'truths' out of many 'truths'.
We've started the solution with ScrollSets (https://breckyunits.com/scrollsets.html), which power PLDB.io, among others.
Orders of magnitude smaller than Wikipedia and Mediawiki, but the thing about compounding...
>developed in the late 17th century by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz independently of each other
But yeah other things are trickier. I follow the covid lab origin stuff and that's a bit of a mess.
My comment already addressed that: '... Credit both? Credit neither since neither discovered the concept of 'the limit'.'
Neither newton nor leibniz discovered what we call calculus. If we are going to credit them for discovering calculus, we might as well credit the ancient greeks who developed similar 'calculus' and from whom both were 'inspired'.
> But yeah other things are trickier.
No. Even the simplest is tricky. As you just proved.