[WikiEN-l] AFD courtesy problem

Tue Jan 17 21:53:13 UTC 2006

On 17/01/06, slimvirgin at gmail.com <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:

> The broader issue is why we allow Google to pick up any of our talk or
> project pages, where NPOV, NOR, and V don't apply. Can anyone explain
> why we allow that?

It's logistically quite tricky to arrange matters so the spiders
understand the difference between a talk page and a "real" page;
"allowing" isn't the key, it's "why don't we prevent it", and the
answer is "if we tried it probably wouldn't work very well".

Not to stop anyone attempting something, but...

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- Andrew Gray
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