I'm okay with that approach as well. I feel a bit odd sounding like a news 
service - but this approach is likely to get more traction.

-greg

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> On Jan 10, 2016, at 11:21 PM, Joe Sutherland <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 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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