Yeah, most news outlets in the UK seem to be using the "Now Obama has a
chance to appoint a new one" line, which does feel like jumping in the
man's grave a bit.

Joe

On 13 February 2016 at 23:26, James Alexander <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Yeah, I think too soon is a fair argument for that, I was more thinking
> about in the coming days as that discussion begins in earnest in the public
> sphere. (on a personal side I told myself "this feels horrible to say so
> soon..." for about 3 minutes before I started talking to someone about the
> political side of it... granted I'm weird ;)"
>
> James Alexander
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> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Jeff Elder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I thought about posting that article (and it is what everyone is talking
>> about), but could be seen as "too soon"? Main SCOTUS is darn good, and
>> better for global audience, seems like? Doing that in a bit.
>>
>> Thanks all. Good to have feedback.
>>
>> Jeff Elder
>> Digital communications manager
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> 704-650-4130
>> @jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder>
>> @wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia>
>> The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 2:48 PM, James Alexander <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, I think that's good,
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appointment_and_confirmation_to_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
>>> will become useful in the near future too I imagine. Not the best article
>>> but not bad and a couple folks have already started making small tweaks, I
>>> imagine it will get cleaned up a bit as it gets attention.
>>>
>>> James Alexander
>>> Manager
>>> Trust & Safety
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Jeff Elder <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was thinking tweet and post the main SCOTUS article in a bit, which
>>>> is really detailed and good. OK?
>>>>
>>>> Jeff Elder
>>>> Digital communications manager
>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>> 704-650-4130
>>>> @jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder>
>>>> @wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia>
>>>> The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Katherine Maher <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Oops sorry missed Jeff's email, phone wasn't updating
>>>>> On Feb 13, 2016 14:41, "Katherine Maher" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yep I think it would make a lotta sense to tweet the article, which
>>>>>> is already updated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died today. Learn more about
>>>>>> him on Wikipedia. <link>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Or something like that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> mobile.
>>>>>> On Feb 13, 2016 14:07, "Gregory Varnum" <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Reports are coming out that Justice Scalia has died.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -greg
>>>>>>>
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