Erik,
That would be excellent, something that would go into all the blocked and
banned templates that we currently use. Blocked and banned users should be
relatively easy to find through the various categories they fall into and
also, given the fact many banned users have their talk pages blanked, the
usefulness of allowing external search engines to index such pages is non
existent.
On 26/09/2007, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 9/24/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Wikipedia isn't judge, jury, and executioner
any more than we are a
personal webhost. We should probably complexity no-index user and
user talk... but if we don't we should at least endeavor to keep
block/ban notices out of the search engines.
I oppose no-indexing them. The point of our "we're no webhost" policy
is that we don't want to get distracted from our mission of writing an
encyclopedia by people posting random stuff. However, we have many
editors in good standing who do not have the skills to put up a
personal webpage and are effectively using their User: page as a "This
is who I am, this is what I do" place on the net. Purging all those
pages from Google to avoid unsavory stuff showing up is overkill.
How about adding a __NOINDEX__ MagicWord that puts
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
in the HTML header?
--
Toward Peace, Love & Progress:
Erik
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