On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Judson Dunn cohesion@sleepyhead.org wrote:
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
They pertain only to the process of editing Wikipedia and have no bearing on any other aspect of the world.
Says you. I'm sure a lot of researchers, sociologists, wikipedians, and the curious would disagree.
I have to agree that fixing Google results for "verifiability" is not our problem. In addition, try and think of this from the point of view of a newbie trying to figure out how WP works. Being dropped into a bewildering morass of abbreviations, policies, guidelines, essays, precedents and strange social networks, Google is a crucial tool to help them work out what's going on. I had to advise one such editor to use it on Wikipedia projectspace just the other day.
Second, we should attempt to be as transparent to those who are attempting to penetrate our inner deliberations as possible, This is a crucial part of our philosophy, and withdrawing from indexing does not aid it.
Third, surely courtesy blanking solves the problem anyway? That is frequently carried out; I do it regularly myself. What cannot be solved through courtesy blanking?
RR