Matthew Brown wrote:
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Alex G g1ggyman@gmail.com wrote:
Not sold on the idea of all namespaces...AfD is currently blocked from google via robots.txt, I think we could use that for a few other pages. I don't think a global block on non-mainspace is needed, personally.
User:, User_talk: and Wikipedia: are useless search results for those outside of our project. So, in my opinion, is Talk:.
Google indexing seems to return these internal pages with the same rating as mainspace pages, where they clearly aren't. Us allowing this to continue is a bug.
I don't see how it's a bug; if anything, the opposite would be a bug (and exceedingly unfriendly to boot). Wikipedia policy pages are important public information, and I frequently find them via search engines. If I search for "neutral point of view" on Google, I expect to find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view, not to find no results because of some stupid bureaucratic reason.
-Mark