On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:07 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
But are you proposing a situation where the users can have *no* public content? Or are you proposing excluding User page from this global proposal to hide non-mainspace?
Wikipedia user pages are not supposed to be a place where one publishes information for the whole Internet to read. They're not personal homepages, not personal web space.
That said, what I'd really like is some way to tell Google et al. that only encyclopedia-space pages are deserving of a high page ranking. The reputation of our actual content is incorrectly spread across pages that are our work in progress or our internal policies. As someone pointed out, WIkipedia's policy pages on copyright should not be high-ranked Google results when people search for 'copyright'.
-Matt