User:Baltarstar

Baltarstar and Cyrus

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Baltarstar is a Novice Editor captivated by human responses to crises of all kinds. Those high-stakes critical junctures, where decision-makers must act with limited time and information, often in competition with each other, represent the climactic moments of the human drama. Baltarstar's contributions aim to deepen our understanding of these crisis moments, hoping that our collective knowledge will one day enable us to build a global society capable of transcending the challenges of our time in order to thrive in a long age of light and life.

Baltarstar served five years in the United States Marine Corps, then graduated summa cum laude from Oregon State University with a Bachelor of Science in Economics, focusing on Policy Analysis, and a minor in Political Science, focusing on International Relations. Now, he works part-time tending his partner's farm animals, practices the wu wei, and contributes to Wikipedia.

Topics of focus include climate change adaptation, current events, disasters, forecasting, geopolitics, hegemonic instability (e.g.; Wars of the Diadochi, Peloponnesian War, or Sengoku period), and societal collapse.

Current Projects

Target Articles

1. Standardize List of assassinations, List of heads of state and government who survived assassination attempts, and List of people who survived assassination attempts
2. Add Timeline of disasters to Lists of disasters
3. Create Timeline of assassination attempts to List of assassinations
4. Late Bronze Age Collapse
5. Wars of Alexander the Great
6. Wars of the Diadochi
7. Peloponnesian War
8. Fall of the Western Roman Empire
9. Wars of the Roses
10. Sengoku period
11. Piracy in the Caribbean
12. American Revolutionary War
13. Napoleonic Wars
14. Zemene Mesafint
15. American Civil War
16. World War I
17. World War II
18. Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Ongoing Tasks

1. Easy Suggested edits
2. WikiProject Articles
3. Vital articles
4. Assessment Backlog

WikiProject Renovations

1. Disaster Management
   1. Break main page into subpages
   2. Add Societal collapse to Content Box
2. Terrorism
   1. Create Assessment Table

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