On 7/23/08, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
Killing a mosquito with a hammer is not the proper approach however. Most of, if not all the major issues NYB brought up, were addressed already.
I appreciate from Steve Bain's and other posts that the issue I raised in my first post has been addressed with regard to XfD, RfA, RfAr, RFC, and BLP/N pages (that is, at least the archives of these pages; I think the current pages should be no-indexed as well). However, the same principles that called for no-indexing these pages would also apply to DRV (which is indistinguishable in principle, for these purposes, from XfD; the only reason those pages are still indexed, as I understand it, has to do with page layout issues), as well as SSP, RfCU, the former PAIN and CSN, WQA, AN, AN/I, and AN3.
Pending issues include (1) do we agree to no-indexing all of these; (2) should project space be no-index with an "index this page" opt-in (my preference and how do we set that up); (3) how do we treat userspace (my preference would be a no-index default with users allowed to opt into being indexed if they wish); and (4) other namespaces.
Could someone post a link to any discussion that might be taking place on-wiki or on Bugzilla?
Thanks, Newyorkbrad