Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/LOLibot


 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Symbol neutral vote.svg Request Expired.

User:LOLibot
Operator: — LOL T/C

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually assisted

Programming Language(s): Java

Function Summary: Statistical updates, particularly in sports

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Daily Tri-annual

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function Details:

Discussion
This bot is going to be doing what exactly? BJ Talk 05:24, 1 November 2008 (UTC)


 * For starters, I'd like to update NBA player statistics such as those found here. Sorry for not being specific enough. — LOL T/C 05:35, 1 November 2008 (UTC)


 * And you're going to be updating these statistics every day? Does it really need to be that frequent? --Carnildo (talk) 10:35, 1 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I was hoping to because some editors have been trying to update them daily, but if you believe that it's too frequent then I can run it less often. What do you suggest?  Biweekly?  Weekly? — LOL T/C 19:23, 1 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Once a year? Once a month, at most? --Carnildo (talk) 22:39, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

←In hockey articles, we only update the stats at midseason and at the end of the season. I would recommend doing something like that. LegoKontribsTalkM 22:43, 1 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay, how about at the All-Star break, end of the regular season, and end of the playoffs? I've changed the edit period. — LOL T/C 19:47, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Where are you getting the stats from? LegoKontribsTalkM 01:00, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * CRICKET did something similar recently. LOL might want to read up the discussion: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject_Cricket/Archive_50 =Nichalp   «Talk»=  07:07, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * NBA.com. If that's not acceptable, ESPN or basketball-reference.com should work just as well. — LOL T/C 03:28, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not a legal person but, I would get permission from the websites before getting stuff from them.   . LegoKontribsTalkM 01:55, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * The copyright status of sports statistics is contested. The MLB was sued for trying to prevent their usage and lost. The judge said in the ruling that statistics can not be copyrighted, so based on that ruling we could ignore any claim to the contrary. Consulting Godwin would still be a good idea. BJ Talk 22:03, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Minor thing: Would you consider a name change to LOLbot instead of LOLibot? I don't know how many others would see this, but having seen issues with the article Lolicon (potentially NSFW), that's what immediately comes to mind for me when I see that name. Ral315 (talk) 22:51, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I originally hoped to create the bot as "LOLbot", but that name was disallowed because it's too similar to User:LolBot. I'd be happy to have it changed to LOLbot. :)
 * The crats will be able to move it. X clamation point  23:15, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

- Let's see how it works - just be careful w/ scraping - if you can find an API or something like that to source the data it would be better as there's no "abuse" issue there -- Tawker (talk) 22:53, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * What's the status of this bot request? --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs (st47) 23:24, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay; I'm currently working on making a (non-duplicate) ref for the stats page. — LOL T/C 22:25, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Any progress on this bot?  RichardΩ612  Ɣ ɸ 19:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It's slow, but I'm still working on it. I have no intention of giving up on it. — LOL T/C 21:09, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Seeing as there has been no activity on this request in just under a month, I'll mark this as expired. If you want to continue with this, undo my edit and restore to the main BRFA page.  Richard 0612  19:07, 5 February 2009 (UTC)


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