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

On 10 January 2016 at 23:24, Gregory Varnum <greg.varnum@gmail.com> 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 <jsutherland@wikimedia.org> 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 <greg.varnum@gmail.com> 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 <jalexander@wikimedia.org> 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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