User:Tlogmer

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I run a weblog about wikipedia. If you want me to write about a particular article/topic/concept/whatever, leave a note, or comment on a weblog post.

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Various logos and graphics for wikipedia/wikimedia/wikimania.

My name's Ben Yates; I'm a technical writer, student, and keyboardist from Ann Arbor.

This user is an advanced Cascading Style Sheets user.

This user is a member of the Wikipedia Industrial Design Cartel.

This user also lives on Planet Wikimedia.

This user is a member of the Association of Structurist Wikipedians.

This user rescues articles for the Article Rescue Squadron.

This user plays the piano.

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This user is a noder at Everything2.

This user runs macOS.

This user knows where in the world Carmen Sandiego is.

So. I've been here since late 2003; I started the wikipedia articles Metrosexual and Hell, Michigan (and the wikibooks summary of Understanding Comics). Most of my stuff is elsewhere, though.

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Douglas at the 2016 Olympic Games

... that gymnast Gabby Douglas (pictured) has a Barbie doll modeled after her?
... that one of former British prime minister Rishi Sunak's favourite books is the 1988 romance Rivals?
... that when Matthew Wild directed Wagner's Tannhäuser, he made its main character gay?
... that after a tornado strike at a St. Louis-area Amazon warehouse killed six workers, the rebuilt warehouse still had no proper storm shelter?
... that Jamaican-Welsh noblewoman Justina Jeffreys was the inspiration for the character of Anthelia in the 1817 novel Melincourt?
... that Grand Theft Auto V is a popular video game in North Korea?
... that Frank Page's sons stole his corpse after he died, leaving their stepmother to bury an empty casket?
... that following the sinking of HNLMS Kortenaer, an officer responded to ethnic tensions on the lifeboats by beating his subordinates with a paddle?
... that after playing just one game, Michael Basinger retired from the NFL and became a country music performer?