Noindex template feature should be restricted to new articles
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Per discussion on English Wikipedia, the noindex template feature should be restricted to new articles (less than 90 days old) in order to minimize the potential for abuse.

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Mentioned In: T211043: Pages in main namespace are being noindexed despite being older than 90 days

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Change 318796 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kaldari):
Restrict noindex template feature to new articles

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/318796

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Change 318796 merged by jenkins-bot:
Restrict noindex template feature to new articles

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/318796

Change 319348 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope):
Enable {{NOINDEX}} as a noindex template on enwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/319348

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Change 319348 merged by jenkins-bot:
Enable {{NOINDEX}} as a noindex template on enwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/319348

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2016-11-11T00:13:50Z] <catrope@tin> Synchronized wmf-config/CommonSettings.php: Enable {{NOINDEX}} as a noindex template on enwiki (1/2) (T149538) (duration: 00m 49s)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2016-11-11T00:15:39Z] <catrope@tin> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: Enable {{NOINDEX}} as a noindex template on enwiki (2/2) (T149538) (duration: 00m 47s)

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Xaosflux mentioned this in T211043: Pages in main namespace are being noindexed despite being older than 90 days.Dec 5 2018, 3:34 AM

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