Steve Block wrote:
Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
I have a couple of persistent problem users on my watchlist at the moment, both of whom persistently obfuscate the titles of articles they created and which have since been deleted, in an attempt to keep their shenanigans off the Google results for the subjects (Ecopave and Patrick Buri for the interested).
Is there any merit in requesting a change so that user and project space are excluded from the Google indexing? What about deleted-protected?
I would support only having article and portal space indexed, not even having talk pages indexed. Is there a way of doing it so it would be picked up across mirrors too? I have no idea of how it's done beyond the no robots or something command in the headers. I have a feeling this is a perennial though.
Steve block
Would it be possible to set up a Google Sitemap that gives very low priority to project-space pages? I often find it useful to search for project pages at Wikipedia, but the built-in search engine doesn't support some querying features that Google does, like placing phrases in quotes.