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

[Anthony]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:31 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:

> Hypothetical arguments aren't very convincing to me.
> If someone were willing to point out a "real world" case where our indexing
> of user, user-talk and article-talk pages is doing some horrible damage
> that
> is  not already existing in-fact then fine, do so.
>

I can't do that, but I can point out a lot of examples from the project and
project talk spaces where indexing is doing unnecessary and unproductive
damage.  I'm not going to point out examples publicly, or to you, because in
my experience bringing the issue to light often only exasperates the
problem.

With article talk pages especially, I think there's a converse argument,
though.  Can you point out a "real world" case where indexing of
article-talk pages is providing some wonderful benefit that is not already
existing in-fact?