Talk:Wikimedia Foundation announces departure of general counsel Mike Godwin

Notes

• Sue Gardner. "Wikimedia Announcements - Announcement: Mike Godwin leaves the Wikimedia Foundation" — Wikimedia Foundation, October 19, 2010

OR tag refers to use of primary source listed above. -- Cirt (talk) 08:38, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Review of revision 1116194 [Passed]

Revision 1116194 of this article has been reviewed by InfantGorilla (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 09:01, 20 October 2010 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: This was an easy review. The announcement invites reading between the lines, but the article eloquently sticks to the facts. The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.

Revision 1116194 of this article has been reviewed by InfantGorilla (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 09:01, 20 October 2010 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: This was an easy review. The announcement invites reading between the lines, but the article eloquently sticks to the facts. The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.

Thank you! :) -- Cirt (talk) 09:03, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Infobox

Please, do not remove the infobox. It is useful for the reader and would strongly prefer to keep it on the page. Thank you, -- Cirt (talk) 09:03, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Fixed. The infobox now has recent articles. -- Cirt (talk) 09:10, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Wording

Would prefer to avoid "Yesterday", and prefer to keep more direct wording, "Tuesday", thank you. -- Cirt (talk) 09:04, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Please keep wording, "would be departing effective this Friday", in the lede. Change to "leave his job", makes it sound like it is his choice or something to that effect. -- Cirt (talk) 09:15, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

I don't like those proposals at all. To broadly summarize my thoughts when I made the edits:

1. "Yesterday" is required by the style guide.
2. "would be departing effective this Friday" is both bureaucratic and an odd combination of tenses (is it future conditional? I don't know but it doesn't fit with news.) Either way, Godwin is the subject of the verbs "depart" and "leave", so either implies he is the actor, no matter how reluctant he may be. The sources doesn't use the word "effective", so we have no need to.

--InfantGorilla (talk) 09:36, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Good explanations. Thank you! [1] Done. -- Cirt (talk) 09:47, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks --InfantGorilla (talk) 10:06, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

No worries, -- Cirt (talk) 10:23, 20 October 2010 (UTC)