In one prior case, the Evidence and Workshop pages were archived to history and protected in that form, meaning that the text can be read by interested Wikipedians using the edit history but would not show up in a Google search. I do not know if this has been done before with a final decision, however.
Is it possible to mark a specific page no-follow to put it outside the parameters for a Google scrape of the site?
Newyorkbrad
On 3/25/07, Ruud Koot r.koot@students.uu.nl wrote:
How should such cases be handled? Deleting the page, blanking it (completely or only leaving a link to a previous version behind?) Maybe administrators should have an option to "protect" the page from being indexed by search engines.
--Ruud
Fred Bauder wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Ruud Koot [mailto:r.koot@students.uu.nl] Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 03:30 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: [WikiEN-l] ArbCom pages and Google
Do we want ArbCom pages where the accused's real identity is revealed (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Carl_Hewitt )
to appear on Google, especially given the fact that searching for the accused's name will result in this page appearing as the second entry (just after the Wikipedia article on him?)
--Ruud
Probably not. You have picked a good example, but there are others.
Fred
WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l