On it.wp we did not use the bots for creating the articles about the 8,000+ municipalities of Italy. Nevertheless, we created some templates and schemes to be applied for creating a consistent series of articles, that have been created "manually" by merging the data from the national statistical agency of Italy. Bots weren't yet running on it:wp in that time.
We thought the creating stubs for the whole bunch of the Italian municipalities would have turned out (and it did) into a big incentive for people to get acquainted with Wikipedia. The artcile about their municipality would have been a pleasant bait and a nice way to "break the ice" with Wikipedia. If those stubs had been bot-generated-stubs their effect would have been the same.
Once ended with the Italian municipalities, some users learnt how to use bots, so we relied on bots for creating the articles about the municipalities of Spain (8,000+) and France (32,000+). And with my huge satisfaction, few days later a non-Italian speaking user edited [[Afa (Corsica del sud)]]. AFAIK, no other countries have been handled that way on it:wp. The articles about the municipalities of Switzerland, Portugal, Slovenia, Estonia, Germany (yet partial), etc... are "hand-written".
As said before, bot-generated content is not evil "per se". A well-done and well-conceived bot-generated stub is like a seed or a bait. Of course, bot-generated content should remain the very minor part of a project's global content.
G.