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, <wjhon...@aol.com> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Woollard <ian.wooll...@gmail.com> > To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l@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.dur...@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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
