[WikiEN-l] ArbCom pages and Google

[Ruud Koot]

How should such cases be handled? Deleting the page, blanking it
(completely or only leaving a link to a previous version behind?) Maybe
administrators should have an option to "protect" the page from being
indexed by search engines.

--Ruud


Fred Bauder wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ruud Koot [mailto:r.koot at students.uu.nl]
>> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 03:30 PM
>> To: 'English Wikipedia'
>> Subject: [WikiEN-l] ArbCom pages and Google
>>
>> Do we want ArbCom pages where the accused's real identity is revealed
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Carl_Hewitt)
>> to appear on Google, especially given the fact that searching for the
>> accused's name will result in this page appearing as the second entry
>> (just after the Wikipedia article on him?)
>>
>> --Ruud
> 
> Probably not. You have picked a good example, but there are others.
> 
> Fred
> 
> 
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