I feel like a more generic tweet would work best, maybe:

* David Bowie (@DavidBowieReal), who released his 25th studio album three
days ago, has died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie

On 10 January 2016 at 23:15, Gregory Varnum <[email protected]> wrote:

> It being featured might be confusing to some. Perhaps
>
> "Wikipedians are already updating the article with the latest sad news
> about @DavidBowieReal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie";
>
>
> -greg
>
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> On Jan 10, 2016, at 11:09 PM, James Alexander <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this the exact wording but feel like tweeting something
> would be good with our normal best practices recently especially given it's
> a featured article.
>
> "Wikipedians are updating the, already Featured, article with the latest
> sad news about @DavidBowieReal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie";
>
> [Fun fact Wikipedians included Joe and I for a large portion of the 'fact
> checking' phase trying to determine if it was real]
>
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