On 09/09/2007, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
For slightly different reasons i would strongly support this. our internal operations are public, but there is a difference between public and in-your-face. I think user namespace should be unindexed; I think WP namespace should be unindexed. I would even go one step further, and say that talk pages in even article namespace should not be indexed. They would still of course be searchable from within WP. Nobody would lose access. the journalists looking for the dark secrets would still be able to find them. The material would still be in the database dump.
We talk about having a relatively stable public layer. The first step is to do something about the totally uncontrolled non-encyclopedic parts.
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Consider, in anthropology, the difference between an outside observer and an active participant. Ideally, I believe an encyclopaedia should strive to be the former rather than the latter - this is especially true when active participation could cause damage to real, individual, living people. (BLP....)