Rob's tweeted Tilman's proposed messaging from @wikisignpost, and Michael is going to retweet it!

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On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 7:21 PM, James Alexander <jalexander@wikimedia.org> wrote:
WFM

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On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Michael Guss <mguss@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I like we can quietly endorse this with a RT from @wikipedia?

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Ed Erhart <eerhart@wikimedia.org> wrote:
FYI, the Signpost has now been published.

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On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 3:45 AM, Ed Erhart <eerhart@wikimedia.org> wrote:
+1 agreed, that's a good compromise

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On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Victor Grigas <vgrigas@wikimedia.org> wrote:
+1 Tilman

On Sep 2, 2015, at 9:26 PM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Gamaliel wrote up an analysis for the upcoming Signpost that explains in fairly accessible terms what Ja Rule's misconception seems to have been:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-09-02/In_the_media#In_brief We could use that (preferably after the Signpost is out officially):

@JaRule There was no height mentioned in the article. Looks you were looking at Google, not at Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-09-02/In_the_media#In_brief 


(also, for those wondering about this thread's topic, it's about

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Katherine Maher <kmaher@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Oh I would not suggest apologizing! Anyway, no need for us to strain for make it work :)

mobile.

On Sep 2, 2015 4:05 PM, "James Alexander" <jalexander@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Yes, and if there is a way to say it while making it clear that it was never our fault in the first place then I'm all for it ;) but I'm against apologizing for something we never did :P especially if everyone is entrenched already into thinking we did (which they may or may not be yet to be fair).

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Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Heather Walls <hwalls@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Plenty of stories are not *really* stories :) but they are entertaining.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:47 PM, James Alexander <jalexander@wikimedia.org> wrote:
meh, I'd be against tweeting about it. SOOOOO not a story. As far as I can tell (may have missed something for sure) the first time in the past couple months his height was mentioned at all was in this edit (which, along with the edit after that, actually put him at what I think? is his desired 5'9 (sorry I'm assuming he didn't like being called short :) ). After that there was a collection of edits going back and forth a couple areas, most of which were reverted in short order and then protection. The entire incident (which resulted in it basically just going back to how it was before without any mention of his height at all) was less then an hour. It screams either a manufactured story or friends playing around probably in the very same room as him :).

James Alexander
Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Michael Guss <mguss@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Google still says he is 5'6 . 

I can't find height anywhere on his page though. 

His page is semi-protected - some action confirmed from his revision history







On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Katherine Maher <kmaher@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Might make a funny tweet.

mobile.


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