Manual talk:Nofollow

Are essays allowed in the Manual: namespace? If it is an essay, it can have Template:Essay put on it. Leucosticte (talk) 09:01, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Dunno (probably not), yes. This is not a standard manual page but "essay" is perhaps excessive, we just need an appropriate category. :) --Nemo 09:05, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

What goes around comes around
Could using dofollow help one's pagerank indirectly? E.g. suppose you link to site A, boosting its pagerank. That drives traffic to site A, raising awareness of sites B and C that are linked to on site A. Site C then links to your wiki, and boosts its pagerank. It's a plausible scenario, isn't it, if the sites cover the same subject matter or there is some other association between them? Leucosticte (talk) 07:00, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * It seems unlikely/uncommon to me that the majority of sites linked from any wiki links back to the wiki itself, so you would be more likely to dilute the value of your outgoing links and hence reduce the pagerank coming to/from those actually connected to you. If a site is part of a network with your wiki, in any sense, you should add it to your interwiki map or nofollow exceptions. --Nemo 15:43, 7 December 2013 (UTC)