No worries on the "you" I totally got what you meant!!!
I make icons as well and it is such a warm and fuzzy feeling to see when people use them and it makes me feel happy and like what I did is good enough for people to use it... Which is really cool. And I'm not saying it isn't hard to credit things, it really doesn't take that much time. I think the bigger issue is how to ask someone to give credit as things do happen and attacking doesn't really seem like a good way to get people to credit or to want to use that persons work.
I personally love wikicon and the person behind it rocks for doing it! It's such a helpful place to find things and I don't think it really hurts or helps crediting, or maybe that's because I do my best to always credit... But as with everyone I sometimes make mistakes and either totally screw up code and hide things or end up getting distracted by something and flat out forgetting that I didn't do it.
When it comes to HTML I guess I should have been more clear I mean the really simple tables that involve two colors and maybe just a few rows. Nothing that is really intense or using a lot of different boxes/colors and so on... Seriously just EXTREMELY basic stuff.
I've been burned, my friends have been burned, a lot of people I know have been burned over simple mistakes of putting a "-" instead of not somewhere. While I try to double check everything I know I'll probably mess up again somewhere and forget to credit or for example when my computer crashed on me I had no idea where I got a few icons because well the name was on my computer and I hadn't memorized it. In that case I just put "please let me know if this is your icon."
I wrote this late one night while I couldn't sleep and had been looking at rpvents for a few moments that got me really thinking about it again.
Even if it isn't meant to be personal, sometimes it can come across that way... really when people insult someones intelligence or starts to call them names because of a simple mistake or for being human and forgetting something.
I think crediting is something that people should do but I also think being clearly rude first isn't really a good way to go about it either... Even if someone isn't a good mood, heck we all have bad days but I don't think calling someone names is a good way to go.