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Bug 19377 - Add user namespace to robots.txt

Summary:	Add user namespace to robots.txt

Status: RESOLVED INVALID Product: Wikimedia Classification: Unclassified Component: Site requests (Other open bugs) Version: unspecified Hardware: All All Importance: Normal enhancement (vote) Target Milestone: --- Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this! URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WT:NOT#a... Whiteboard: Keywords: easy Depends on: Blocks:   Show dependency tree / graph		Reported: 2009-06-24 15:24 UTC by Jeandré Modified: 2009-06-24 15:40 UTC (History) CC List: 1 user (show) Emufarmers See Also: Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: --- Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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Description Jeandré 2009-06-24 15:24:16 UTC To prevent nonsense on user pages from coming up on search results pages instead of sourced and NPOV pages in article namespace. Example and more discussion at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WT:NOT#a_question_of_policy_concerning_WP:SOAP_and_google_indexing_of_user_pages> Comment 1 Emufarmers 2009-06-24 15:40:28 UTC If consensus exists for this, it can be added on [[MediaWiki:Robots.txt]].