Wednesday, August 13, 2014

No, I will not remove your LGPedia entry

Picture 2 copyOK people! Listen up! Before you bother asking, no, I will NOT remove your LGPedia entry, and there are multiple reasons:

I do not run the official version of LGpedia, but simply an unofficial mirror of it. Miles Beckett keeps promising to put the original back online. Removing info from a mirror does not remove it from the original. Also, removing your information revises history, which I am 100% against. Finally, removing the link does not remove it from Google's cache or archive.org.

What I will be happy to do for you, though, is add the URL about you to robots.txt so that Google will drop the page from search results, and also remove it from Google's cache and archive.org's Wayback Machine. That is most likely what you're concerned about anyhow, correct? That a prospective employer will google you and not hire you based on the result found in LGpedia?

To do this, please send me a polite email (wintermute AT nitemarecafe DOT com) requesting that I add your entry to robots.txt, and please include the URL in question in the email so that I can easily locate you. Failure to do so may result in laziness on my part ;)

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