On 13/09/2007, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
A bit high-profile to be just 'how you present yourself to others on the project' - it will probably be the #1 Google hit for your name or pseudonym.
My Wikipedia user page is for "David Gerard", with or without quotes, but these days pretty much anyone wondering who this guy is will be wanting to know because of Wikipedia-related activities anyway. So if you have someone pissed off at you for Wikipedia activity and your user page is the first hit ... um, they've already read it.
People keep going on and on about 'accountability'. Might some people be more inclined to reveal whatever personal info is enveloped by 'accountability' if the User namespace were hidden from Google and other search engines?
Possibly. But you know that the only way not to have something found that you put on the Internet is not to put it on the Internet.
- d.