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It looks like something is malfunctioning in PageTriage (or core) and __NOINDEX__ is effectively noindexing articles in main namespace older than 90 days. See documentation of how it's supposed to work at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Controlling_search_engine_indexing#Indexing_of_articles_(%22mainspace%22). From bug report at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Important_pages_hidden_from_search_engines.

It looks like something is malfunctioning in PageTriage (or core) and `__NOINDEX__` is effectively noindexing articles in main namespace older than 90 days. See documentation of how it's supposed to work at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Controlling_search_engine_indexing#Indexing_of_articles_(%22mainspace%22). From bug report at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Important_pages_hidden_from_search_engines.

It looks like something is malfunctioning in PageTriage (or core) and `__NOINDEX__` is effectively noindexing articles in main namespace older than 90 days. See documentation of how it's supposed to work at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Controlling_search_engine_indexing#Indexing_of_articles_(%22mainspace%22). From bug report at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Important_pages_hidden_from_search_engines.