[WikiEN-l] no-index certain BLPs??

[David Gerard]

On 06/05/07, doc <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> "I don't want to be number one on Google. This is the position I
> expressed to Brad Patrick over a year ago. I could live with a bio under
> those conditions. ... All it would take is a new flag in the system to
> generate a "noindex" meta in the header of certain articles. You
> wouldn't have to change robots.txt. It might be slightly easier than
> getting the article deleted, and it could be one option to offer BLP
> victims short of a deletion" (Brandt)
> Why not agree to this?


Some variant on this sounds plausible to me. Anyone see a serious
problem with this?


- d.