Mirrors don't get such high search rank as Wikipedia. Most people who search Google never look past the first 10 entries (if they even scroll down to number 10, which many don't).
Noindexing is a distinct advantage in situations such as job searches or business contract bids where one competitor might stoop to tactically damaging another candidate's biography. Yes, the information remains available, but deliberate misinformation doesn't shoot to the top position instantly.
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:22 PM, wjhonson@aol.com wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 3:32 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] A new solution for the BLP dilemma
2009/6/4 Durova nadezhda.durova@gmail.com
Wikipedia articles that present material about living people can
affect
their subjects' lives.
Trouble is, even if you NOINDEX so it can't find it in google, they could still find it in the wikipedia or via inbound links.
So, although, the proposal could (at best) conceivably improve things, it would ultimately solve nothing.>>
And I would like to add that anyone could simply repost the information, point at the Wikipedia article as the source, obeying the GFDL considerations effectively eliminating any benefit from Noindex. Which basically is what mirrors accomplish anyhow.
Any mirror can repost any manually crawled content without regard to Noindex. Noindex is not a requirement that anyone is bound to obey.
Will Johnson
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