The Mike Handel Story Options

[John Limey]

BLP hoax accusing fake Oxford professor of murder makes it into the DYK section and draws 4300 page views. Read all about it at On Wikipedia.

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[bambi]

As of 0500 March 3 UTC, it is number one in Google for a search for "mike handel" - with or without the quotes. cache link Why doesn't Wikipedia use the NOARCHIVE meta to keep those cache links off of Google, Yahoo, and Bing? This meta in the header section of any page won't affect the ranking for that page.

It's also number one in Yahoo and Bing, but apparently they don't have their cache thing together yet for this particluar article.

[CharlotteWebb]

As of 0500 March 3 UTC, it is number one in Google for a search for "mike handel" - with or without the quotes. cache link Why doesn't Wikipedia use the NOARCHIVE meta to keep those cache links off of Google, Yahoo, and Bing?

Well, disabling the cache would make the "deletion review" process even more corrupt than it is now.

Perhaps the best accountability trade-off would be to make "former articles" visible to registered users who can solve a captcha.