This Request for Comment covers a proposal to prevent search engines finding or caching potentially harmful pages through the addition of a fairly restricted "noindex" property. It comes from discussions with the community as part of development of the Page Triage software, where several editors suggested that a noindex tag would be helpful. As this tag is not technically dependent on New Page Triage, and should have input from the wider community, this independent Request for Comment was established.
There are two proposals; to noindex unpatrolled articles, and to noindex articles tagged with specific deletion templates such as "attack page" or "copyright violation". Editors are asked to indicate their support for or opposition to each feature; we are perfectly happy to turn on both, one or the other, or neither. Suggestions to include more deletion tags, or questions about the technical implementation, should be left on the talkpage. Note that this RfC will run for 30 days, starting on 20 March.