The Cunctator wrote:
The RamBot was a bad idea, and the IsraelBot is too. Wikipedia articles should be generated individually, not en masse.
A semi-reasonable compromise would be to tag the auto-generated entries so that they didn't show up in the site statistics, etc. That is, the'd act as preformatted resources for editors who wanted to create an entry on a town, but wouldn't be considered real entries.
--tc
Your argument makes no sense. There are certain things simply taken as facts that should be included in the Wikipedia. To wait for someone to enter all these things by hand would take forever. A bot can enter the data much more quickly and with a constantly consistent format for easy reading. Sure, someone should go back and look at all these bot entrys to add more information they might have from personal experience but to not let bots seed the 'pedia with factual stubs first would lessen Wikipedia's content.
As long as the information in a bot's stubs is factual, why not count it in the site statistics?