overauthoring

Verb

overauthor (third-person singular simple present overauthors, present participle overauthoring, simple past and past participle overauthored)

1. To add too many names to the list of authors on a work produced by a team.
   • In most cases, it is better to "overauthor" in team publications than to "underauthor", to include an individual if there is...1982, Miscellaneous Publication - Issues 18-19, page 47
2. To continue revising a work past the point where the revisions improve the work.
   • In 1817, which marks the first appearance of The Ancient Mariner as a work by Coleridge, the poem is, by contrast, almost overauthored.1994, Jack Stillinger, Coleridge and Textual Instability, →ISBN