Charles Matthews wrote:
Well, maybe we should discuss the downside first. Not
having project
pages on Google would certainly impede my work. You know, some of us
still develop articles, and so on.
This is a valid point, and I think it needs to be addressed in a couple
of ways:
1. First, narrowing the scope of the noindex request.
2. Second, finding out what it would take to improve internal search to
make it more usable for people developing articles and so on.
Ah, but I do. Isn't it a better solution to blank
some AfDs, than to
say "the mission has to come second"? After all, really negative
material should be off the site, not just harder to find.
I would support that for some kinds of pages, blanking should be the
default upon the close of discussion.
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I wonder how hard it would be to have a technical change whereby
articles could be tagged with a {{noindex}} template which would set the
meta headers appropriately. This could be liberally applied to project
pages that may be magnets for bad behavior.
And then user space could be the only thing removed from google by default.
Thoughts?
--Jimbo