@Jeffro -

There are already numerous plugins available that give end users the chance to create a dedicated page or post which lists all plugins in use. In fact, the one I linked to by Lester Chan is my favorite because it pretty much takes the same information from my plugin management page and puts it into a post via shortcode. Therefor, this is not something that should be addressed in core since standard credits are already handled by the core.

I've seen similar responses in the ticket itself. IMHO, such responses totally miss the point of the suggestion, which is standardization. Plugins are inherently counter-productive to the goal of standardization (regardless of whatever it is that one desires to standardize).

Saying that one can write a plugin for a colophon page is true, but irrelevant. The point of the suggestion is to provide standard hooks for plugin and theme developers to use to provide credit/link options to their admin pages, so that if a user opts to provide the colophon page, he can optionally allow his plugins/themes to hook into that page.

No plugin can provide a reasonable or meaningful alternative.

Further, wordpress.org could then develop consistent guidelines regarding plugin/theme credits/links, because the asinine argument about theme = one link and plugins = several links becomes moot. (For the record, the argument is not that plugins should be allowed to force a credit link, but rather that themes should be required to make their link optional and default to off.)

And finally, the PluginsUsed page isn't sufficient, either, because it doesn't give the user the ability to choose which plugins he credits - only all active and/or all inactive plugins.