And Andrew wins. Stable versioning wont solve anything, nor will noindexing. Part of being an encyclopedia means wanting people to use you, which (for one on-line) means showing up in search engines.
On 5/26/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 26/05/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
David Mestel wrote:
You said Devs said "No" to noindexing given pages, right? It's too
bad we
can't make a template for all BLPs that injects noindex...
That seems a bit pointless to me: either we want people to find an
article
or we don't. If we don't, I have a better solution: delete it. If we
do,
why not let the search engines index it?
Stable versioning has been imminent for a long time now. Perhaps when it is operational indexing should only apply to stable versions.
That wouldn't really solve the problem at all - it's quite possible to have a stable-but-crap article. "Stable" only really means "pretty likely it doesn't say Joe is Gay anywhere"...
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- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
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