User:Tlogmer

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Wikipedia-related stuff

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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Flag of Duluth, Minnesota

... that the flag of Duluth, Minnesota (pictured), has an award-winning simple design, but still represents eight things including Lake Superior, the North Woods, and three city hills?
... that Sophie Scamps decided to enter politics after a survey from her local member of parliament failed to mention climate change?
... that Vollpension employs grandparents to bake cakes according to their own recipes and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, offered live baking courses from elders around the world?
... that Benjamin F. McAdoo was the first Black architect to be licensed in the U.S. state of Washington?
... that Sabrina Carpenter and Jenna Ortega kiss in the music video for "Taste"?
... that in the week of his assassination, Quinto Inuma Alvarado said at a conference: "If I must die, I will die"?
... that G Affairs was presented at project markets in South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, but rejected because it was deemed unmarketable in China?
... that Sienna Green began playing water polo because she saw it as a combination of basketball and swimming, her favourite sports?
... that a parrot reportedly screamed profanities at the funeral of U.S. president Andrew Jackson?