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The main job of the [[AboutUs Bot]] is to create basic pages about websites. It gathers descriptive public information about a website from several sources (such as the [[whois]] record) to build this [[DomainPage|domain page]]. This pre-built [[WikiWiki|wiki]] page gives website owners and [[AboutUs]] contributors a head-start in creating a useful and informative [[AboutUs.org]] page. For more information try a [[WikiAnatomy|tour of AboutUs and wiki]].

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Recently, the AboutUs Bot started marking '''[[parked pages]]'''. If a website was mistakenly marked as parked please [~~mailto:help@aboutus.org~~ email us] and we will un-do this for you.

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Recently, the AboutUs Bot started marking '''[[parked pages]]'''. If a website was mistakenly marked as parked please [<email>ad8e04803505ed24ab47f497399f72b9</email> email us] and we will un-do this for you.

==How it adds a [[WikiPage]] to our site about your site!==

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:: '''User-agent: *'''

:: '''Disallow: /'''

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~~:Yet another alternative would be to add either of these tags to your '''main page''':~~

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~~: <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">~~

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~~: <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOFOLLOW">~~

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~~:These should give you plenty of ways to prevent AboutUsBot from including content from your site when creating new [[AboutUs.org]] pages.~~

== What about my address? ==

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 The main job of the [[AboutUs Bot]] is to create basic pages about websites.  It gathers descriptive public information about a website from several sources (such as the [[whois]] record) to build this [[DomainPage|domain page]].  This pre-built [[WikiWiki|wiki]] page gives website owners and [[AboutUs]] contributors a head-start in creating a useful and informative [[AboutUs.org]] page.  For more information try a [[WikiAnatomy|tour of AboutUs and wiki]].
-Recently, the AboutUs Bot started marking '''[[parked pages]]'''. If a website was mistakenly marked as parked please [mailto:help@aboutus.org email us] and we will un-do this for you.
+Recently, the AboutUs Bot started marking '''[[parked pages]]'''. If a website was mistakenly marked as parked please [<email>ad8e04803505ed24ab47f497399f72b9</email> email us] and we will un-do this for you.
 ==How it adds a [[WikiPage]] to our site about your site!==
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 :: '''User-agent: *'''
 :: '''Disallow: /'''
-:Yet another alternative would be to add either of these tags to your '''main page''':
-: <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">
-: <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOFOLLOW">
-:These should give you plenty of ways to prevent AboutUsBot from including content from your site when creating new [[AboutUs.org]] pages.
 == What about my address? ==