User talk:Bcase

Hi Bcase and welcome to AboutUs. I am happy that you've decided to explore the wonderful world of wiki. I wonder if you'll be interested in having a look at our Adult Content Policy. Feel free to edit and change any page at AboutUs because all edits are considered to be Efficiently Expressed Suggestions. Please leave me a message on my talk page if you need any help. Best, Asad | *~talk~* 23:37, 22 October 2007 (PDT)

Hi Asad, Pages for all of our domains were automatically created on this site and exposed to web crawlers such as googlebot. As a result, personal details of some of our staff are now shown in google search results for their names. This is inappropriate use of whois data. We therefore tried to edit these details to minimise the detail published, as this issue has caused severe problems for the people in question. Recently aboutus have chosen to block access to the pages in question with a 302 redirect to a page forcing the viewer to log in. As a result, google's web crawler (and all other crawlers) cannot pick up the new page with the personal information removed, and because the page cannot be deleted by anyone, google now caches the OLD page that caused all these problems in the first place. The design of aboutus.org FORCES us to unlabel these sites as adult content simply so that web crawlers can get access to the page and pick up the new details and replace their old cache. I don't want this, you don't want this, but until someone deletes the pages in question, thus returning a code 404 instead of a code 302, this is the unfortunate result. (We don't want any of our sites represented on aboutus.org anywaym but that's beside the point. Many people have made good arguments as to why this is an abuse of the whois data, and is in fact against whois data usage policy, so I'm not going to waste time repeating it). All we want (and we are not alone) is a way for pages to be deleted so that personal information is not inappropriately exposed.

Brian, thanks for drawing attention to this, we will need to figure this out quickly. I think that it may be the way you are thinking, pull the Category:PossibleAdultContent and let Google crawl our site, then re-add the tag. Get with you soon, MarkDilley