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

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/4/2008 9:12:24 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
szilagyi at gmail.com writes:


> 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. >>>
> --------------

Nein my friend.  You cannot be sued for bitching at someone or calling them 
names.  Or rather you problem *can* but the complainent would be laughed out of 
court.

WMF itself cannot be sued for what *I* or *you* say.  The responsibility for 
what we say is ours, no one elses.

Talk pages are not a "free-for-all".  If you really think this then you can't 
have been around any controversial pages much.  They are quite frequently 
wiped, erased, edited, oversighted and so on for issues of BLP and/or libel.

Again this is just more about something which doesn't actually exist, in 
order to try to get something we shouldn't really want implemented for quite 
another reason.  The way the system is working now is just fine.

Will Johnson


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