Risker wrote:
2008/4/28 Judson Dunn cohesion@sleepyhead.org:
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Why is it overkill? What is there on non-encyclopedia pages that should
be
searchable?
Risker
Policy pages, guidelines, essays.
Well, here's the problem. When I google-search "Verifiability", the first hit is the Wikipedia policy - it isn't even our article on formal verification (redirected from "Verifiability), or any other link on Wikipedia or elsewhere that describes what verifiability is in the real world.
That is precisely the intended result, so Google is functioning properly here---Wikipedia's page on "verifiability" is one of the most prominent uses of the term online. It's been quoted in multiple news articles, has been remarked upon by university professors concerned or interested in the use of Wikipedia, etc. The use of "verifiability" to refer to something capable of undergoing formal verification, by comparison, is comparatively uncommon (even in computer science, which field I'm in).
In any case, the discussion here was about *harm to specific individuals*, not about micromanaging Google's search results. Surely we aren't harming specific individuals by letting people search for verifiability find our policy on such?
-Mark