Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Ganongbot


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Ganongbot
Operator: Ganong123 (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually Assisted

Programming Language(s): Python

Function Summary: Collects judicial appointment dates from bar association websites and puts them on wikipedia.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Probably one week, but hopefully it will update later beyond that

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function Details: Screen scrapes county, date, judge name from paragraphs of the newsletter of the Washington State Bar Association (linking to the original page) which contain the word "appoint." I will write them to a page called "Washington, judicial appointment dates" or something else which someone recommends.

Discussion
The operator doesnt appear to be an experienced one in WP. Edits of this account is confined to this BRFA only. Were you using any previous accounts ? --  Tinu  Cherian  - 09:08, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, is there any kind of consensus or just discussion regarding whether doing this is a good idea. If the appointment dates are going to go anywhere, shouldn't they go onto the relevant articles (if not there already) instead of a list-like page.  RichardΩ612  Ɣ ɸ 18:44, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Creating lists for judicial appointment needs consensus before a bot can be considered. I'd suggest WikiProject Law. BJ Talk 02:37, 15 January 2009 (UTC)


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