Sent. Sorry to sort of overrule a little here.
https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/686448525081579520

On 10 January 2016 at 23:24, Gregory Varnum <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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