Text Formatting ⇒ How to format the Author with Thanks To

[The Kings Raven]

High there.

I've got a document that where pretty much all the work was done by myself but several people made suggestions so I want to include them in the credits. What's usual Latex command for this? I found the \thanks but that seemed to be some sort of footnote. I was thinking more along the lines of

By Author Name
With thanks to
name1, name2
name3, name4,
for Reason

What's the way to set that up?

[localghost]

I see several possible solutions which allow to create a title.

• Use the \maketitle command to format the title of your document. Formatting would be quite restricted due to the limitations of this command.

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  \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{report}
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
  \usepackage{babel}
  
  \title{A Document}
  \author{%
    by The Author\\
    \small with thanks to\\
    \normalsize Another Author, One more Author\\
    \small for their enriching thoughts
  }
  
  \begin{document}
    \maketitle
  \end{document}

  The titling package might help to go beyond these limitations.
• Use the titlepage environment to create a title on your own that is not bounded to the above mentioned command.
• Take a look at the document »Some Examples for Title Pages« to get some inspiration. The introduced examples can be used in conjunction with the above mentioned environment.

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten