Talk:Italian Wikipedia

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This article was nominated for deletion on February 18, 2007. The result of the discussion was keep.

How do automated bots including a bunch of changing (such as population ) data in a succint table per page compare to the spirit of what should be published in the Wikipedia?

I don't think so. Is this data going to be maintained and updated? can't this data be obtainable anyway from the original source it was found on the internet? That is, is the Italian wikipedia anyhow more useful now, after the 50.000+ one table entries they've added?

I think these "comuni" "projects" are mere exercices of vanity aimed at placing Italian in a position (i.e. number of articles , "ranking" among languages) it does unfortunately not have.

A bit ridiculous.

It is very sad to write an article with a town name in it and seeing it red, not having even a small stub showing its position, region or size. Note that only part of the data (demography) are form databases, and these are not accessible to everyone (being databases from Istat, on a overcrowded and excel-table-filled site). This could be ridicoulus, but your objection is simply stupid. --Jollyroger 17:39, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

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Adding articles with bots for small towns and so is a pratice used in all wikis. As an italian wikipedian, i feel hurt by this silly phrase: it seems our work is made mainly with bots. It.wiki is way better than other wikis with more articles, having less stubs and more full articles. Without using stolen images, too (i.e. "fair use"). Congratulations to the jackass that tought those "smart words", you understood what wikipedia is... --Jollyroger 17:35, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Adding articles with bots is not a practice used in all wikis. --° 15:45, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

35.000 bot created articles are IMO worth mentioning, especially in the context of the growth race the article describes. But there's a simple solution to balance the bot part: add more information about the italian wikipedia to the article. --Elian ^Talk 16:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC)