[WikiEN-l] No-indexing of project-space pages

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/23/2008 1:17:52 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
risker.wp at gmail.com writes:

Google  for the user?  Really?  You can't find talk pages or  user
contribution histories with out  Google?>>


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You know perfectly well (I think) that that is not to what I refer.
I'm not looking for the user's page, but rather the user, wherever they  
appear.
 
If there is an allusion to so-and-so getting into a nasty fight with  
such-and-such, I need to look for the two of them together to see what it's  about.  
It's not perfectly likely that that fight appeared on either user  or user 
talk pages of *them* but it may appear on the talk page of somebody  else.
 
Historians need to preserve the ability to biograph the historians  
themselves.  That is part of the history of Wikipedia.  We are not  just a series of 
articles, but rather individuals and some of those individuals  create 
intriguing historians of their own.  Noindexing user talk pages  effectively wipes the 
ability to learn whatever-can-be-known about the  people who create Wikipedia.
 
Will Johnson



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