Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website
URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:
https://www.inaturalist.org/places/wikipedia/Botany%20Bay
Screenshots of what you are seeing (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/):
This is from the forum thread in General linked below, showing how the page fragment looks:
Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):
As raised by @graysquirrel in https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/whats-with-the-places-wikipedia-pages-on-inat/57663 the iNat website html fragments containing wikipedia place descriptions show up in Google searches filtered by site://https://www.inaturalist.org/
. These fragments, like https://www.inaturalist.org/places/wikipedia/Botany%20Bay , which comes up as the first hit when you search Google for botany bay site://https://www.inaturalist.org/
, are not generally useful to end users. They are apparently there to provide content the “About” tab of iNaturalist place pages. In this case, the user-facing page is https://www.inaturalist.org/places/botany-bay--2 and that result also comes up in the same Google search.
Fortunately, the solution is simple. Add Disallow: /places/wikipedia/*
to https://www.inaturalist.org/robots.txt and Google and other search engines will stop indexing these page fragments, while not affecting the indexing of the user-facing place pages themselves.