From the perspective of a bot writer, and who proposed the automatic creation of a few thousand drafts for missing English Wikipedia articles for registered monuments in Wales (the proposal was resisted), I would rather see auto-creation tools limited to *suggesting* stub articles on user request. A tool which suggested to an editor a missing article and gave them a reliably referenced stub, has the benefits of using available data to boost article creation, attracting newer editors to try article creation, and ensures that a person always remain responsible for edits to the encyclopaedia and can be approached about improvement.
P.S. Gerard, you have made over a third of all the posts in this thread during the day it has run, sometimes overlapping or repeating your earlier points, mostly about Wikidata. Perhaps you could take a moment to consider whether this helps to attract readers, and encourages non-regulars to participate, for slightly technical discussions like this? Thanks, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
