User:Laurinavicius

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.... But the tale of history forms a very strong bulwark against the stream of time, and checks in some measure its irresistible flow, so that, of all things done in it, as many as history has taken over it secures and binds together, and does not allow them to slip away into the abyss of oblivion.

—Anna Komnene, preface to the Alexiad

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 16 years, 8 months and 10 days. This user is a secular humanist. This user is a bibliophile. This user is awed by the Earthrise photo from Apollo 8. In Memoriam: 9/11 Lest we forget… This user is an advocate of democracy. IQ This user's Intelligence Quotient is 186. This user loves the Autumn. This user loves to read. This user loves to write. This user loves knowledge. This user scored 55284 on the Wikipediholic test. Unified login: Laurinavicius is the unique unified login of this user for all public Wikimedia projects. This user is a donor to the Wikimedia Foundation. You can be one, too. This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user is not a Wikipedia administrator but would like to be one. This user is a WikiDragon. ...one of the last of a dying breed... This editor is a WikiGnome. AWW DMBJ AWGC AWAI FDSP BATD MTADThis user is a member of the Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgments About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are in Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They Are Deletionists. This user is a member of the Welcoming Committee. This user is a recent changes patroller. This user is a recent changes patroller with Twinkle! AutoEdThis user cleans up, formats and checks Wikipedia using AutoEd. This user edits with the gadget wikEd. This user is a member of WikiProject Military history. This user is a member of the World War II task force of WikiProject Military history. This user is a member of WikiProject Former Countries. This user is a participant in WikiProject Russia. tyop typoThis user is a member of the Wikipedia Typo Team. This user is a member of WikiProject Ottoman Empire. This user is a member of the Guild of Copy Editors. This user has participated in 4 Backlog Elimination Drives with the Guild of Copy Editors. This user participates in Articles written by a single editor. (You can help!) This user is a member of WikiProject Geography. This user is a member of the Middle Ages WikiProject. This user is a member of the Crusades task force of WikiProject Military history. This user participates in WikiProject Croatia. This user is currently working on the revival of WikiProject Former Countries. This editor is a Veteran Editor III and is entitled to display this Silver Editor Star. This editor is a Most Perfect Tutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain and Cigarette Burn. This user helped promote Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany to good article status. This user helped promote Inner German Border to featured article status. This user helped promote Walls of Dubrovnik to good article status. This user helped promote Food power to good article status. This user helped promote Howard the Duck (film) to good article status. This user helped promote White Zombie (film) to good article status. This user helped promote Louis XVIII of France to good article status. This user helped promote Heraclius to good article status. This user helped promote Manitoba to featured article status. This user helped promote Klis Fortress to good article status. This user helped promote Zagreb Synagogue to good article status. This user helped promote Siege of Trsat to good article status. This user helped promote Siege of Szigetvár to good article status. This user helped promote Joseph B. Foraker to featured article status. 0.7This user has 0.7 centijimbos. This user opposes the installation of any kind of advertisements on Wikimedia Foundation–operated sites. This user is male. Userpage (Commons) Talk (Index · Commons) Subpages Barnstars Sandboxes Contributions Guestbook Hey there! As you have probably deduced by now, I'm Laurinavicius and this is my homepage. I discovered Wikipedia a few years ago, but, at first, the thought of contributing as an editor and writer never crossed my mind. However, in the interest of furthering both my own personal knowledge and the collective sum of human knowledge found here on Wikipedia, I decided to do so more than four years ago and, since then, have been completely and totally hooked. Editing Wikipedia is a true passion of mine, something I wholly enjoy. Unfortunately, my real-life commitments had forced me to take a rather lengthy WikiBreak that I've only just concluded, which means, in short, that I'm back. I live in the state of New Jersey in the United States of America. I'm currently a seventeen year-old Sophomore at nationally competitive and highly-ranked university, highly-regarded by my classmates, professors, and coworkers. I am a triple-major in History, Political Science, and Economics, with a minors/concentrations in Anthropology, International Relations, and Philosophy. After graduation, I aspire to attend to attend law school, become a lawyer, and go into politics. My interests are very widespread, but my favorite is history, especially that which relates to the military and government. As a result, I edit articles of a wide variety in size, importance, and field: everything from the smallest Stubs and articles that off the beaten path, to the largest, most important, and controversial ones. When working on articles, I mainly copyedit and expand them. I can be contacted multiple ways. If you want to talk to me about my edits, you can do so on my talk page. If there is anything that you would like to share or discuss with me in private, you can e-mail me at mlaurinavicius@optonline.net. ARTICLES CREATED, EXPANDED, COPYEDITED, WIKIFIED, OR MARKEDLY IMPROVED IN ANY OTHER WAY: Aaron Hernandez • Abijah Gilbert • Adnan Çolak • Adolf Heusinger • Aelius Donatus • Age of Empires III • Ageleia • Akhmad Kadyrov • Alexander Gorbatov • Alexander Rodimtsev • Alive (1993 film) • Allen Pearson • Anglo-Corsican Kingdom • Ann Moore (inventor) • Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier • Antun Saadeh • Argentine Confederation • Argishti I of Urartu • Argishti II • Armand de Gramont, Comte de Guiche • Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin • Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs • Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs • Aviva Chomsky • .bj • Babylonia • Battle of Custoza (1848) • Battle of Custoza (1866) • Battle of Kutná Hora • Battle of Morgarten • Battle of Nájera • Battle of Saule • Battle of Zeeland • Bethany Anne Lind • Brian Keith Lord • Bronnitsy • Byzantium under the Heraclians • Cambridge, Massachusetts • Charles Burke Elbrick • Chipchase Castle • Christmas Like This (album) • Coconut (song) • Come Softly to Me • Constantin Brătescu • Contrato de Amor • Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany • Countdown to Nowhere • County of Apulia • C9 League • Dete • Dick Polman • Diego and Glot • Dorothy Cotton • Duchy of Savoy • Edict of Potsdam • Egressive • Emirate of Jabal Shammar • Emmanuel Louis Masqueray • Ferrante II Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla • First Mexican Empire • First Sudanese Civil War • Food power • Forrest Kline • Futures (album) • General (Germany) • Georg von Küchler • Grand Duchy of Tuscany • Gregorio Pacheco • Griva, Kilkis • Haffar • Heraclius • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen • Howard the Duck (film) • Imperial Presidency • India Today • Inner German border • Ivan Werner • Ivo Krbek • James Madison • Joan Bonvicini • John Callan O'Laughlin • Joseph B. Foraker • Joseph Jenkins Roberts • Julian the Apostate • Kaley Cuoco • Karlheinz Schulz Streeck • Khosrau II • Ki-Adi-Mundi • Kievan Rus' • Klis Fortress • Knickerbocker Group • Ladislaus of Naples • Landshut War of Succession • List of kings of Urartu • List of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius episodes • List of To Kill a Mockingbird characters • List of wars 1500–1799 • List of wars 1945–1989 • List of wars 2003–current • Livonian Brothers of the Sword • Lord of War • Louis XVIII of France • Lyceum (software) • Magnus, Duke of Holstein • Manitoba • Maria Torribia • Mariya Ovechkina • Martin Dannecker • Maximilian Vogel von Falckenstein • Mediterranean Division • Messolonghi • Middle Francia • Mistah F.A.B. • Model 1913 Cavalry Saber • Mohammed Bijeh • Moshe Katsav • Municipality • Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars • National Basketball Association • National People's Army • New Imperialism • On Your Side (album) • Oropogon • Otome Pasta ni Kandō • Paratrooper • Penysarn • Phantom of the Paradise • Philippe I, Duke of Orléans • Piekło, Opole Voivodeship • Politico-media complex • Potsdam Conference • Producing Parker • Quaker Gun • Ramganj Upazila • Ramzan Kadyrov • Republic of Florence • Rhythm, Sound and Movement • Richard Mawrey • Rusa I • Rusa III • Sarduri I • Sarduri IV • Sentinel (comics) • Sergey Mironov • Shakti Anand • Sheldon Cooper • Siege of Szigetvár • Siege of Trsat • Sinan • Sister Abhaya murder case • Staplehurst • St George's Minster, Doncaster • Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton • Swedish War of Liberation • Taron (historic Armenia) • Tate (god) • Telli Hasan Pasha • Territorial changes of Poland immediately after World War II • Thadiyoor • Theodore (brother of Heraclius) • Thoppil Mohamed Meeran • Trevor Cooper • Ulrich Wille • Urartu • Urartu–Assyria War • Ursula Yovich • Vietnam War • Voiceless palatal affricate • Volkwin • Walls of Dubrovnik • White Zombie (film) • Wieringermeer • William A. Shine Great Neck South High School • Witton Albion F.C. • Wolfgang Lotz • Worringer Bruch • Xanthe Elbrick • Yalta Conference • Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates • Zagreb Synagogue • Žanis Butkus • Zeliha Şimşek • Zenas, Indiana • 102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers) • 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery • 13th Guards Rifle Division • 1890 United States Census • 1905 Russian Revolution • 2008 South Ossetia war • 2009 Hong Kong Games • 4 anni di successi • 93rd Infantry Division (Germany) OF THESE, THE FOLLOWING ARE GOOD ARTICLES: Age of Empires III • Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany • Food power • Heraclius • Howard the Duck (film) • Joseph B. Foraker • Klis Fortress • Louis XVIII • Siege of Szigetvár • Siege of Trsat • Walls of Dubrovnik • White Zombie (film) • Zagreb Synagogue OF THESE, THE FOLLOWING ARE FEATURED ARTICLES: Inner German border • Joseph B. Foraker • Manitoba Awards Military history service award By order of the coordinators, for your good work tagging and assessing military history articles in Tag & Assess 2008, I hereby award you this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk 09:55, 1 August 2008 (UTC) Military history service award By order of the coordinators, for your great work tagging and assessing military history articles in Tag & Assess 2008, I hereby award you this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk 09:55, 1 August 2008 (UTC)  Military history service award By order of the coordinators, for your excellent work tagging and assessing military history articles in Tag & Assess 2008, I hereby award you this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk 09:55, 1 August 2008 (UTC) The Copyeditor's Barnstar Recognizing your helpful copy-editing contributions. Izzedine (talk) 01:04, 26 April 2009 (UTC) The Apprentice Award in Minor Discovering Locations of Pages To myself, for finding User:GeneralIroh's Special Page. Laurinavicius (talk) 02:16, 2 October 2009 (UTC) The Last Change Barnstar 5#! The Copyeditor's Barnstar For excellent copyediting on Klis Fortress, Walls of Dubrovnik and Zagreb Synagogue, among others. Nice job. :) Congratulations, Kebeta (talk) 19:12, 18 April 2010 (UTC) The Secret Subpage Finder Barnstar This user has found Hi878's secret hidden sub page! Will you be the next one to find it? Try it here! Hi878 (talk) 01:53, 23 April 2010 (UTC) WP:FILM Silver Reel This is to acknowledge and thank you for your participation in tagging and assessing 400 articles in WP:FILMS' Tag & Assess Drive 2009-2010. You have helped to ensure our project has a better idea of the articles under our scope. I appreciate your efforts in further helping the project! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 21:30, 2 May 2010 (UTC) The Tireless Contributor Barnstar For your copyediting efforts during the May 2010 Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive, editing 26 articles with a combined total of 12,622 words, I hereby award you this Cleanup Barnstar. Congratulations and thank you for all your hard work! --Diannaa TALK 03:09, 10 June 2010 (UTC) The 10k Copy Edit Barnstar For copy editing the following article: 10476 words in Philippe I, Duke of Orléans during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 backlog elimination drive. The Raptor You rang?/My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 13:51, 1 August 2010 (UTC) The Old School Barnstar This Old School barnstar is awarded to Laurinavicius for copy editing articles with a combined total of 33,075 words during the Guild of Copy Editors May and July 2010 backlog drives. Your contributions are appreciated!--Diannaa (Talk) 18:14, 1 August 2010 (UTC) Military history reviewers' award By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your good work helping with the WikiProject's Peer and A-Class reviews during the period July-December 2009, I hereby award you this Military history WikiProject Reviewers' award. TomStar81 (Talk) 01:52, 1 September 2010 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space This user has signed Mr.Kennedy1's guestbook This user has signed the guestbook of Mr.Kennedy1 and deserves this award. If you want this award too, just sign the guestbook. The Working Man's Barnstar For your copyediting efforts during the Guild of Copy Editors' September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, editing seven articles with a combined total of 9,636 words (10,089 with rollover), I have great pleasure in presenting you with this barnstar. On behalf of the Guild, thank you for your participation, and see you at the next drive. – S Masters (talk) 16:53, 4 October 2010 (UTC) The Wikilink Barnstar This Wikilink Barnstar is given to Laurinavicius for wikifying 4 articles, a total of 17,041 words. Thanks for participating, and please be sure to help out at our next drive! Nolelover It's football season! 00:54, 7 January 2011 (UTC) The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia  This Superior Barnstar is given to Laurinavicius for a leaderboard appearance. Again, thanks for participating! Nolelover It's football season! 00:54, 7 January 2011 (UTC) The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia    This special barnstar is awarded to Laurinavicius for copy editing articles totalling over 80,000 words in the January GOCE Backlog elimination drive. What a great achievement! Thank you for participating in the drive. Diannaa (Talk) 18:02, 4 February 2011 (UTC) Leaderboard Award – 5K Articles – 5th Place This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Laurinavicius for copy editing five articles of 5,000 words or more during the Guild of Copy Editors' January 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you so much for all your efforts. – SMasters (talk) 08:42, 6 February 2011 (UTC) “ "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful encyclopedia." ” — Today's Motto of the Day Tip of the day... Article development Newly created articles are checked for obvious problems by members of the New pages patrol. These editors collaborate to identify articles which do not meet the criteria for inclusion and/or to tag them for any glaring issues that need attention. Article classification codes are assigned (on the article's talk page) based on an assessment of the article's quality. The assessment class codes may be updated by any contributor as the article is improved. 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