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.

Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

Various logos and graphics for wikipedia/wikimedia/wikimania.

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

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

This user also lives on Planet Wikimedia.

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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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Francis L. Sampson

... that German soldiers did not believe that Francis L. Sampson (pictured) was a non-combatant after his capture during the D-Day landings, because they had never seen a paratrooper chaplain before?
... that the hips of some 19th-century Fijian young women were tattooed with veiqia when they reached puberty?
... that the myth of Shunten, the legendary first king of Chūzan, was used to justify the 1872 annexation of Okinawa?
... that two best-seller lists initially classified The Children's Book of Virtues as non-fiction, but later moved it to their fiction charts?
... that Bahamian basketball player Waltiea Rolle moved to the United States at the age of 13 after being noticed while walking home from school?
... that the U.S. Air Force considered a bomber version of the F-22 Raptor known as the FB-22?
... that a new soccer team in Boise, Idaho, plans to play at a converted horse racing track?
... that geologist Gilbert Wilson was the fifth Wilson at school, so he was known as "Quintus"?
... that a medieval town in Poland disappeared?