diff --git a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
index 9f7dbb97ed1..001f1e48d63 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ module ApplicationHelper
   # @param [optional, String] content the content of the ROBOTS tag.
   #   defaults to no index, follow, and no archive
   def robot_exclusion_tag(content = "NOINDEX,FOLLOW,NOARCHIVE")
-    content_tag(:meta, name: "ROBOTS", content:)
+    tag(:meta, name: "ROBOTS", content:)
   end
 
   def permitted_params
diff --git a/spec/views/wiki/new.html.erb_spec.rb b/spec/views/wiki/new.html.erb_spec.rb
index 21a1d611ed7..90964703a16 100644
--- a/spec/views/wiki/new.html.erb_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/views/wiki/new.html.erb_spec.rb
@@ -72,4 +72,9 @@ RSpec.describe "wiki/new" do
     render
     assert_select "input", name: "page[parent_id]", value: "123", type: "hidden"
   end
+
+  it "renders a robots exclusion meta tag in the header tags" do
+    render
+    expect(view.content_for(:header_tags)).to include('name="ROBOTS"', 'content="NOINDEX,FOLLOW,NOARCHIVE"')
+  end
 end