[WikiEN-l] User:FritzpollBot creating millions of new

[Bryan Derksen]

David Gerard wrote:
> The question that springs to mind is: what else can we get complete
> data on for bot-assisted article creation? Every state-level or higher
> politician in every country ever? What else?

Television episodes... :)

My initial reaction when learning about this plan was "oh no, not again" 
- I remember Rambot and how for a long while random page would give me 
one of its articles half the time I clicked on it. But after thinking 
for a moment longer I think this will be a good thing, overall. I'm a 
fan of completeness too and this will help establish that completeness 
is an important criterion for article inclusion.

The only remaining problem I have with Rambot's articles is the 
formatting, which is archaic now and would require a rather clever bot 
to update without damaging edits that have been made to the original 
base. But I'm sure FritzpollBot will be using modern style guidelines 
for templates and citations when generating articles so that should be fine.

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