On 1/17/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
So, I bow to the wisdom of others, and suggest this alternative (suggested by others):
- blank and protect
- leave the history there, but don't call special attention to it (this
is so the victims don't feel that the blanking is pointless -- any wikipedian, even newbies, will know to click on 'history') 3. ask brion to see what he can cook up for blocking search spiders from it
--Jimbo
Going over the archives is still going to be a major comitment of rescorces (unless we give a bot admin powers and people are still not completely happy about doing that).
-- geni