User:TheFearow/RefBot
This is an idea for a bot that would help save a lot of articles from deletion.
It scans the new articles, and searches for the title in the following places:
- Yahoo! News
- CNN
- BBC
- Various other news sites
- Standard web search for related sites
It then posts on the talk page, with a section similair to the following (using Bill Gates as an example, would show more but I have only showed 3 entries):
References by RefBot
[edit]Following a search of many news sources, RefBot has found the following articles that may be appropriate as sources:
It has also searched the internet, and found the following sites that might be useful as other sources or external links:
The following searches may provide more information:
For comments/suggestions, leave a note on the maintainers talk page. 22:44, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
Information
[edit]In the section above, there are three sections. One is searching news, one is searching the web, and one is related searches. The first and second are to directly provide sources/references, and the third is a simple source for finding more information. Please direct any comments/criticisms to the talk page of this page. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 22:44, 9 August 2007 (UTC)