[WikiEN-l] Searchability of non-mainspace pages

[Charles Matthews]

 "Daniel R. Tobias" wrote
> 
> On 28 Apr 2008 at 12:59:46 -0400, "David Goodman" 
> <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > First and hopefully uncontroversial step: make user and user talk
> > space non searchable via google etc. That will at any rate diminish
> > the tendency to use Wikipedia as a personal web site.
> 
> But my userspace essay "Why BADSITES is bad policy" is #1 in Google 
> when searching for "badsites"!

Not for that reason - but David's suggestion is a Very Bad Idea. Tools for site development (eg redlink lists) naturally reside in userspace, and we should care about editors finding them.

Charles

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