[WikiEN-l] Searchability of non-mainspace pages

[Peter Ansell]

Some people think the web has relevant content that is non-notable...
Suggesting to search engines that they not index certain pages will
only break one discovery mechanism. If there is irrelevant content why
not blank them. There is obviously something there that people don't
want others to find, so why not focus on that issue.

The fact that when they do get to the page they can do a lot with the
community content under wikipedia licensing terms should be a bigger
issue than that of real world consequences of Google (not) doing
things with content.

Peter

2008/4/28 Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com>:
> Why is it overkill?  What is there on non-encyclopedia pages that should be
>  searchable?
>
>  Risker
>
>  2008/4/28 <WJhonson at aol.com>:
>
>
>
>  > Addressing this on ALL non-mainspace is quite a bit of  overkill.  Perhaps
>  > you could narrow your request to something a little more  specific.
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