Risker wrote:
2008/4/28 Judson Dunn
<cohesion(a)sleepyhead.org>rg>:
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Risker
<risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Why is it overkill? What is there on
non-encyclopedia pages that should
be
searchable?
Risker
Policy pages, guidelines, essays.
Judson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion
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