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

[Andrew Gray]

2008/8/5 Jonathan Hughes <lifebaka at gmail.com>:

> One thing no-indexing user and user talk namespaces would help with is to
> curb the recent trend of userpage spam.  I see half a dozen or more
> userpages a day which are spam or masquerading as articles.  If userspace
> wasn't indexed, pretty soon the companies/persons who attempt this sort of
> advertising will figure out it doesn't work; no one ever finds their
> "article" from Google or Yahoo.

A lot of these are helpful new-page patrollers moving a spammish
article into userspace, FWIW.

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- Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk