[WikiEN-l] A new solution for the BLP dilemma

[Durova]

Mirrors don't get such high search rank as Wikipedia.  Most people who
search Google never look past the first 10 entries (if they even scroll down
to number 10, which many don't).

Noindexing is a distinct advantage in situations such as job searches or
business contract bids where one competitor might stoop to tactically
damaging another candidate's biography.  Yes, the information remains
available, but deliberate misinformation doesn't shoot to the top position
instantly.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:22 PM, <wjhonson at aol.com> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com>
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 3:32 pm
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] A new solution for the BLP dilemma
>
> 2009/6/4 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>
>
> > Wikipedia articles that present material about living people can
> affect
> > their subjects' lives.
> >
>
> Trouble is, even if you NOINDEX so it can't find it in google, they
> could
> still find it in the wikipedia or via inbound links.
>
> So, although, the proposal could (at best) conceivably improve things,
> it
> would ultimately solve nothing.>>
>
> And I would like to add that anyone could simply repost the
> information, point at the Wikipedia article as the source, obeying the
> GFDL considerations effectively eliminating any benefit from Noindex.
> Which basically is what mirrors accomplish anyhow.
>
> Any mirror can repost any manually crawled content without regard to
> Noindex.  Noindex is not a requirement that anyone is bound to obey.
>
> Will Johnson
>
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