Talk:Wikimedia Foundation announces departure of general counsel Mike Godwin

Review of revision 1116194 [Passed]

 * 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:
 * "Yesterday" is required by the style guide.
 * "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 source s doesn't use the word "effective", so we have no need to.
 * --InfantGorilla (talk) 09:36, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Good explanations. Thank you! ✅. -- Cirt (talk) 09:47, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks Smiley.svg --InfantGorilla (talk) 10:06, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * No worries, -- Cirt (talk) 10:23, 20 October 2010 (UTC)