"credit" or "the credit" to you for contributing?

Mori

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It's a message on a Telegram channel:

🤝 How to contribute​

This library thrives through our shared knowledge. If you have an excellent resource you'd like to share:
  1. Send the file directly to the librarian: [Telegram Handle Removed By Moderator].
  2. It will be reviewed and uploaded to the correct Drive folder.
  3. An announcement will be posted right here on the channel detailing the new content, its folder location, and credit to you for contributing.
Should it be credit or the credit?
 
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I think both "give someone credit" and "give someone the credit" work.
 
I think the co-ordination is wrong in point 3. It seems to me from how it's written that 'detailing' applies to all three points:

detailing the new content
[detailing] its folder location
and
[detailing] credit to you for contributing


However, that's not right since you can't really detail credit, so I would put it like this:

detailing the new content
along with [detailing] its folder location
and
giving credit to you for contributing


There's no need for a definite article to determine 'credit'.
 
I think changing "detailing" to "giving" would work with all the three objects.
i would change "shared knowledge" to "shared resources". Knowledge comes from within people, which can be shared only when they come together. That's not the main purpose of a library.
 

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