On 08/05/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
I oppose this. We should not have articles invisible to search engines. Either the page gets deleted, or it stays. None of this monkey business.
I concur, for a change. ;) Wikipedia is supposed to be an information resource, and search engines are the main means of finding such resources on the web. While I strongly sympathise with any victims of libel, and join the call to tighten up on it, I feel it's important to continue supporting indexing of all articles.
I would suggest a better idea would be to find some means of asking Google to update caches and indexes for a particular page "right now" for these cases.
Rob Church