Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2124931-20140312212608/@comment-1458758-20140313212708

Except as I pointed out, it could be used to separate the derived techniques of one user from the core moves of another.

Especially if we take the core move as example, where as we list Minato, Jiraiya and Naruto all as users of Rasengan, a note on creator in the infobox saves some time distinguishing who used it first as Jiraiya is the oldest user, but not the creator, Naruto is the most prolific user, but not the creator and Minato is the creator and thus first to use the technique. Similar process for Kakashi and Sasuke on the Chidori.

Fair enough, for techniques with only a single user and no note as to having learned it elsewhere, it doesn't add much, but in the case of techniques with multiple users, it would make a useful shorthand.

As I'm sure the response to this logic is going to be "Well they can just look at the article for that" this is practically true for the Classification, Tailed Beast, Affiliation, Clan and Family sections of any of the character pages with said information, so please don't respond with that and expect me to accept it as a reasonable response to this. There's going to be repeated information somewhere on the wiki, but if it makes it more accessible and easier to look up for the users, why not do it?