On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:07 PM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
But are you proposing a situation where the users can
have *no* public
content?
Or are you proposing excluding User page from this global proposal to hide
non-mainspace?
Wikipedia user pages are not supposed to be a place where one
publishes information for the whole Internet to read. They're not
personal homepages, not personal web space.
That said, what I'd really like is some way to tell Google et al. that
only encyclopedia-space pages are deserving of a high page ranking.
The reputation of our actual content is incorrectly spread across
pages that are our work in progress or our internal policies. As
someone pointed out, WIkipedia's policy pages on copyright should not
be high-ranked Google results when people search for 'copyright'.
-Matt