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

[Ian Woollard]

So far as I am aware, they already can add {{NOINDEX}} to the article and it
will, if nobody else reverts the edit disappear from google.

I must confess that I don't think it fixes anything worth fixing though.

2009/6/5 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>

> The proposal is to noindex upon the subject's request.  Isn't it best to
> let
> the people who live with the consequences weigh those pros and cons?  If
> the
> main thing they want is to get Wikipedia off the top Google result, then it
> may be worth it to them.  On principle, I'm not keen on paternalism.
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Durova<nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > *Suppose we noindexed biographies of living persons, upon the subject's
> > > request.*
> >
> > As has been already mentioned, this has all been discussed before, but:
> >
> > NOINDEXing BLPs does nothing to stop vandalism of them. All it can
> > hope to do is sweep it under the rug, which is exactly the wrong thing
> > to do, as vandalism can only be fixed once it has been noticed. The
> > Siegenthaler incident was so bad because the vandalism went unnoticed
> > (or at least, uncorrected) for so long.
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Durova<nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Presumption_in_favor_of_privacy
> > > "Presumption in favor of privacy"
> >
> > Those ideas are about what types of content are accepted into BLPs
> > (and what types of sources are used), and under what circumstances
> > will we have or not have a BLP. Anyone who cares about these issues
> > should put their efforts into working on those ideas, as well as on
> > ideas about improving dealing with vandalism as it happens, instead of
> > working towards futile obfuscation.
> >
> > Incidentally, NOINDEXing requires no developer assistance:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:NOINDEX
> >
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