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

[Joe Szilagyi]

On 5/6/07, doc <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:
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> <snip> Is this crazy?


Not really, no, and it would possibly solve a great problem right off. Doing
it on a sliding scale--low notability, semi, etc., would probably be a Very
Bad Idea, as it would certainly need that sliding scale implemented to go
with it, and that in and of itself would a be silly jungle war at times. The
notability standards would likely need clear thresholds from status A, to
status B, to status C, so that people wouldn't fight tons over it.

Making all BLPs nofollow outright gets around this, solving the problem of
fighting over status, and making the bios less prominent. Two birds, one
stone. It's always possible to go back later then to go a sliding nofollow
scale, as the notability scaling would probably take longer to get consensus
on than it would take to implement "no follow all BLP" on the tech side.

However, it adds a new third problem possibly to nofollow all BLPs: Bad crap
in bios that are 'off the beaten path' may now fester longer, if someone can
sneak them past Recent Changes before someone finds them off Googling the
given the person.

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Regards,
Joe
http://www.joeszilagyi.com