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: Tati Studios; restored by Chris Woodrich

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.

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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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St. George Utah Temple

... that a lightning strike on the St. George Utah Temple (pictured) was interpreted by Latter-day Saint officials as a beyond-the-grave request from a former church leader to change the design?
... that Amman was renamed Philadelphia around 255 BC by a Greek ruler who was nicknamed Philadelphus for marrying his sister?
... that museum director Nawala Al-Mutawalli guarded the Iraq Museum with an AK-47 prior to the Battle of Baghdad?
... that Fred Verity and colleagues invented an automatic pivot or bearing for looking glasses?
... that Lady Gaga considered changing Mayhem into a grunge record after completing "Perfect Celebrity"?
... that models walked the outline of a pentagram for the occult-inspired runway show of Alexander McQueen's In Memory of Elizabeth Howe, Salem, 1692 (Fall/Winter 2007)?
... that 2024 Olympic bronze medalist Sophiane Méthot began gymnastics after watching Stick It?
... that African ginger is used by the Zulu people to protect against lightning and snake bites?
... that before it was good to be the GOAT, it was actually bad to be a goat?