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WikiProjects (and individual users) often created tables or lists of articles and their associated article assessments. As an example,Wizardman createdUser:Wizardman/Packers-Browns Connection to track the assessment of a specific set of articles (User:Community Tech bot sort of does this for Popular Pages already based on articles within a specific WikiProject). However, these tables or lists, especially the larger they get, can become out-of-date. I'm wondering if there is an opportunity for a bot to automate this.

The idea would be that a user could create a page, either in their user space or the Wikipedia space, that would automatically get updated by the bot every 2 weeks to show revised assessments. This initial input could be one of two options: a specific category or a user-generated list. Either way, after the initial input, the bot would format the list into a table like Wizardman's and then automatically updated every two weeks (similar to Community Tech Bot's timing). Thoughts? « Gonzo fan2007(talk) @16:02, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

For the user generated list, should it use some existing page with a list (i.e. could be an existing page in the user's userspace) or something else?Tenshi! (Talk page)17:06, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

Tenshi Hinanawi, I struggled with that one. Obviously the easiest input would be an established category. But I can imagine, similar to the example above, that users would be interested in generating their own lists. Maybe a simple bulleted list could be the input, in addition to a category? I'm open to whatever makes most sense. « Gonzo fan2007(talk) @17:45, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

Is it possible to do this with{{database report}}? — Qwerfjkltalk17:47, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

Additionally, I think the output would be a simple table, like this:

The input for the bot to parse could just be a page that says:

• Chet Adams
• Chris Akins
• Jake Allen (American football)
• Joe Andruzzi
• Roy Barker (American football)

Thanks! « Gonzo fan2007(talk) @17:49, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

This could better be done by a completely separate website (sort of like how edit information is better displayed in xtools rather than in your own userpage).GalStar (talk) (contribs)06:04, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Canadian Football League biography andTemplate:Infobox gridiron football person (both are the exact same infobox) are being merged intoTemplate:Infobox NFL biography perthis discussion. NFL biography will then be renamedTemplate:Infobox gridiron football biography.Here is an example edit of me converting the basic parameters from a CFL infobox to an NFL infobox. I imagine a bot could do most of this. The only parameters that might require some advanced programming are the following:

• playing_years1 and playing_team1 (2, 3, 4, etc) in the CFL infobox will just become "teams" in the NFL infobox. Seethis edit for an example.
• The honors parameters in the CFL infobox like "CFLAllStar" will all be thrown under the "highlights" parameter as bulleted lists in the NFL infobox.Example edit.

I anticipate some more questions but that should be a basic enough explanation for now.~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk)18:32, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

I've been looking at doing this on and off for a while. I'll throw some tracking categories in there to see how crazy I need to get with the architecture of the code.Primefac (talk)21:36, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

Some of this proposed process seems to be doing things in the wrong order. It would seem better to renameTemplate:Infobox NFL biography first (or at least make a redirect fromTemplate:Infobox gridiron football biography for a future move-over-redirect), then do the other things, so that you don't wind up with an NFL-named template on CFL pages.Anomie⚔12:35, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Redirect created.~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk)12:41, 25 August 2025 (UTC)