[WikiEN-l] No-indexing of project-space pages

[Joe Szilagyi]

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 6:31 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:

> We're not babysitters and we shouldn't act like cyber cops.  If people
>  call
> each other hateful names, that's what they did.  The entire blame for
>  their
> actions rests solely on their own shoulders.  I feel no  responsibility for
> what someone else did, and that they did it, knowing full  well that others
> would
> and have seen it.  That is the very nature of a  public forum.
>
>
This is just a vile point of view since it's heartless to people who may
have extremely nasty crap posted about them on Wikipedia, probably the site
on Earth with the most Google firepower of all time. So if there was an
article, [[Will Johnson]] about yourself, and the talk page came up near the
top of the searches with extremely inappropriate and negative commentary
about you for clients, possible employers, and family to find, you'd have no
problem with this?

Even if YOU have no problem with yourself being defamed online, other people
do. Since BLP is supposed to apply in even strength everywhere on Wikipedia,
but talk pages rather stupidly tend to be a free for all, this will keep any
nasty crap that may get editors or the WMF itself sued out of the search
engines. It's a step in the right direction to protect a whole lot of people
from extremely unpleasant material being online about them.

If I seem to recall, you have gotten into extremely nasty BLP fights with
subjects of articles like that Matt Sanchez guy, right, and others, and have
pushed to include negative or loosely sourced material on BLPs? Your voice
and opinion here then as the sole major dissenting voice isn't worth much of
anything, if that's the case. BLP trumps a whole lot of everything else.

- Joe