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.

Photograph credit: Russell Lee; restored by Adam Cuerden

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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Illustration of the Liceu bombing

... that six innocent people were executed for the Liceu bombing (pictured), despite Santiago Salvador confessing that he was the sole perpetrator?
... that Pixel Piracy's developers released a free torrent of their game?
... that Gracie Abrams wrote Good Riddance about her breakup from her former collaborator and boyfriend, Blake Slatkin?
... that Wu Zhong was recognized as the youngest general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army after the first holder was stripped of the title following his emigration to the Soviet Union?
... that the 1926 film Lonely Orchid was adapted from a British novel via a Chinese translation of a Japanese translation?
... that two different colleges experienced fires while Frederick W. Hinitt was their president?
... that South Korean sources reported in January 2024 that several thousand North Korean migrant workers occupied a factory and took hostages?
... that World War II nurse Ethel Lote practised yoga and tai chi until she was 95?
... that "Prius Missile" is internet slang for traffic accidents involving older drivers in Japan?