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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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.

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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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Nicolaas van Wijk

... that Nicolaas van Wijk (pictured), after helping to provide humanitarian aid during World War I, called the Partitions of Poland "an offense against God"?
... that the Rescatemos a David y Miguel memorial was installed seven years ago today in response to a kidnapping that occurred thirteen years ago today?
... that Carol and Eric Hafner ran for five United States House of Representatives seats for states in which they did not live, and mostly had not visited?
... that the first modern Chinese play was based on an American novel and staged in Tokyo?
... that ketchup chips were introduced in the 1970s along with other flavours such as grape and orange?
... that the military glider Tsybin Ts-25 was considered for use as a civilian airliner on routes including to Moscow?
... that the futurist novel Man of Smoke, according to a scholar, contains a hidden legal code for readers to piece together?
... that Pokémon Scarlet and Violet became the lowest-rated mainline entries in the franchise's history due to performance issues at launch?
... that Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi opened the first commercial movie theater in Iran, only for it to be banned within a month?