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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