To be fair Argentina spending lots of money on things for national pride is ... not particularly newsworthy ;)
James Alexander Manager Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Ed Erhart <[email protected]> wrote: > "without *a *trace" :-) > > You could add "expensive" to the Twitter proposal ("started an expensive > naval arms race"). At one point, the race took up about a quarter of > Argentina's national budget. > > --Ed > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:22 PM, James Alexander <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Joe Sutherland < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hey all - Ed's article is Today's Featured Article on Wikipedia today >>> and it would be cool to get it on social. >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minas_Geraes-class_battleship >>> >> >> BIAS! BIAS! PLAYING FAVORITES! not that it isn't a good article and of >> course we should share it just like we should consider for others ;) >> >> >>> Proposed: >>> >>> Twitter: >>> • Did you know that Brazil's Minas Geraes-class battleship started a >>> naval arms race in South America? [link] >>> >> >> LGTM >> >> >>> Facebook: >>> • São Paulo, the second of two Minas Geraes-class battleships, went >>> missing without trace in a 1951 storm. The wreck has never been found. >>> [link] >>> >>> Joe >>> >> >> Do you want to start with "Did you know" here? Honestly not sure which is >> better :) LGTM either way. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > > > -- > Ed Erhart > Editorial Associate > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > >
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