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by koralatov 4356 days ago
Looking at the history of that page,[0] it appears a couple of different bots have worked on it, with human intervention. (I suspect ``Ram-Man'' is an earlier version of ``Rambot'', but I could be wrong.)

I've read pages like that before, and it never once occurred to me that they were anything other than the result of sheer human bloody-mindedness. They're not `exciting', but they're very clearly written in an easily parseable way that doesn't scream ``machine-generated'' to me. If this is indicative, the quality of output of these bots is excellent, and a good use of automation --- let the bots fill out the dry factual stuff, and the humans write the less tangible, non-statistical stuff.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agency,_Missouri&a...

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Ram-Man is a human account. The same person operates the Rambot bot account. You can click on their usernames on the history page to see their user pages, which usually describe these things.