Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MBisanzBot 6
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Denied.
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Auto
Programming Language(s): AWB
Function Summary: NOINDEXing RFCU and SSP
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): finish backlog, once every 3 months thereafter
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function Details: Bot will take grep of google RFCUs SSPs listing of all RFCUs and SSPs that are publicly visible. It will add the {{NOINDEX}} tag to any RFCU or SSP on google that does not currently have that tag on the page.
Discussion
Looking at those Google results, many of them have the {{NOINDEX}} template transcluded via another template but the version Google has is from August, probably before it was added. I just added {{NOINDEX}} to the {{SSPa}} template. However, if we really want to no-index all of these pages automatically, MediaWiki:robots.txt would be a better option, Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/
already seems to be on it. Mr.Z-man 17:49, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- If RFCU is already on it (and I presume has been on it), why are all of them showing up in google. Also, some of the older SSPs and RFCUs do not use the template boxes, so it will not pass through to them. MBisanz talk 17:55, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Robots.txt is definitely the answer here as the pages all use a common prefix. --MZMcBride (talk) 09:53, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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