[WikiEN-l] unintended consequences

[Anthony]

On 5/26/07, David Mestel <david.mestel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >You said Devs said "No" to noindexing given pages, right?  It's too bad
> we
> >can't make a template for all BLPs that injects noindex...
>
> That seems a bit pointless to me: either we want people to find an article
> or we don't.  If we don't, I have a better solution: delete it.  If we do,
> why not let the search engines index it?


I don't think it's nearly as simple as wanting people to find an article or
not.  There are some articles we might want some people to find (such as
Wikipedia editors), but others not to find (such as Google searchers).  I
wouldn't say this is true of BLPs in general, though.

Anthony