Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 6/15/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
You're joking, surely. We should probably courtesy-blank all AfDs of living people, successful or not. These are real people. This stuff hurts.
This sounds like the kind of proposal that would be supported by a gang that's wanting to form a secret cabal. Accountability depends on openness. If you feel so hurt by having this kind of accountability, it's time you had a thicker skin.
I don't understand this response at all. I'm suggesting that discussions pertaining to a deletion proposal of a biography of a living person be routinely blanked. In case it isn't obvious, the purpose is to stop the rather nasty things that are often said about the subject of the biography appearing as a google hit.
I would've thought this was common knowledge, at least among old-timers like you, but AfD discussion pages are *not indexed by Google* or any other search engines that follow the robots.txt standard.
(It turns out that AfD *talk* pages, however, are indexed. I've just filed a bug about this at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10288. I'd hope it'll get fixed soon.)
Incidentally, Tony, this is why your "Come on, it's obvious!" debating tactic isn't exactly conductive to resolving disputes. By failing to state your assumptions, you're not only making it harder for others to find common ground and correct any mistaken assumptions they might've had, but you're also preventing them from correcting any mistakes that you yourself might've made in your own assumptions.