User:SportsBot

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This user account is a bot operated by Zachary (talk). It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually. Most bots must be approved at WN:BOT; global bots are accepted in limited circumstances. (Check to see if this user is a global bot) Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

This is an automated bot to update various sports data for Wikinews. It is equipped with the almighty "bot flag", which hides it from the Special:Recentchanges page (though you can usually see it in action with the "Show Bots" link). The owner of this bot is Zachary (talk). Please direct any questions to Zachary's talk page (because unlike its cousin, WikinewsLinker, it cannot answer your greatest of questions.)

Pages updated by this bot

Bold text signifies that this bot uses the SportsBot code (eventually, all will use it; see #Miscellany)

• American Hockey League
• Coca-Cola Championship
• English Premier League
• Liga de Fútbol Profesional
• Major League Baseball (disabled; season over)
• Major League Soccer (disabled; season over)
• National Basketball Association
• National Football League
• National Hockey League standings
• National Hockey League scoreboard
• Scottish Premier League
• Serie A

Tables to be added

• NASCAR Nextel Cup

Miscellany

• My bot uses two edit summaries. The first is "Automatic update of standings", which signifies that it uses my ghetto standingsbot code. The second is "Automatic update of sports data", which signifies that it uses my shiny new sportsbot code.
• Source code for the sportsbot is available here.
• Now that the StandingsBot is a SportsBot, it is not limited to just standings table, but match results, playoff brackets, etc. as well.
• Logs available here: standingsbot.log, sportsbot.log

The SportsBot is free software; It is free to use, distribute, and modify under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the license, or (at your option) any later version. This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.