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: Lt. Taylor, War Office official photographer; 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.

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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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Desert columbine flowers

... that mining engineer William H. Shockley found specimens that were used to describe Aquilegia shockleyi (pictured) and Lupinus shockleyi?
... that the only surviving autograph pages of one of Bach's chorale cantatas ended up in three libraries on two continents?
... that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador in March 2025 due to an "administrative error" by the U.S. government?
... that the Oregon Garden obtained the Gordon House because of a misunderstanding?
... that a statue of German-born missionary Johann Gottlieb Schwarz was commissioned by Prabowo Subianto, later president of Indonesia?
... that the murder of Patricia Jeschke resulted in the longest prison tenure for a wrongfully convicted American woman?
... that Belize's Toledo Progressive Party was accused of being funded by the government of Guatemala?
... that swimmer Yuri Hosei was studying at a restaurant when she learned that she had qualified to represent Palau at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
... that instead of drinking liquor with prospective clients, Arthur Harrison Motley sent them notes written in red pencil crayon, 10,000 times a year?