I'm with Nguyen. It would be a shame to have problem users take away a useful tool. Google is very useful to look for Ref desk answers for example. The Wikipedia search engine is usually crap. Besides, why worry if they try to keep their shenanigans off google. We have other ways of finding out and if it's not on Google less people will find the crap by accident.
Mgm
On 10/24/06, Minh Nguyen mxn@zoomtown.com wrote:
Steve Block wrote:
Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
I have a couple of persistent problem users on my watchlist at the moment, both of whom persistently obfuscate the titles of articles they created and which have since been deleted, in an attempt to keep their shenanigans off the Google results for the subjects (Ecopave and Patrick Buri for the interested).
Is there any merit in requesting a change so that user and project space are excluded from the Google indexing? What about deleted-protected?
I would support only having article and portal space indexed, not even having talk pages indexed. Is there a way of doing it so it would be picked up across mirrors too? I have no idea of how it's done beyond the no robots or something command in the headers. I have a feeling this is a perennial though.
Steve block
Would it be possible to set up a Google Sitemap that gives very low priority to project-space pages? I often find it useful to search for project pages at Wikipedia, but the built-in search engine doesn't support some querying features that Google does, like placing phrases in quotes.
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