Baltarstar

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Baltarstar is an Apprentice 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

Ongoing

1. Easy Suggested edits
2. WikiProject Articles
3. Vital articles
4. Assessment Backlog
5. Other Wikipedia Backlogs

Lists

1. Create Lists of assassinations
2. Standardize List of assassinations, List of heads of state and government who survived assassination attempts, and List of people who survived assassination attempts
3. Add Timeline of assassination attempts to Lists of assassinations
4. Add Timeline of disasters to Lists of disasters
5. List of wars
6. Lists of battles
7. List of terrorist incidents

Hegemonic Competition

1. Late Bronze Age Collapse
2. Wars of Alexander the Great
3. Wars of the Diadochi
4. Peloponnesian War
5. Fall of the Western Roman Empire
6. Wars of the Roses
7. Sengoku period
8. Piracy in the Caribbean
9. American Revolutionary War
10. Napoleonic Wars
11. Zemene Mesafint
12. American Civil War
13. World War I
14. World War II
15. Dissolution of the Soviet Union

U.S. Political Violence Comparisons

1. Crisis of the Roman Republic
2. Weimar Republic
3. American Civil War
4. Lebanese Civil War
5. Dissolution of the Soviet Union
6. Yugoslav Wars

WikiProject Renovations

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

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