User:Kirill Lokshin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).
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 Comnena, preface to the Alexiad
This user is a member of the Arbitration Committee.
This user is an administrator.
This user is the Lead Coordinator of the Military history WikiProject.
My name, as you may have guessed, is Kirill Lokshin. I was born in Saint Petersburg (which was, at the time, Leningrad), and am currently residing in the U.S. state of Maryland. Professionally, I'm an engineer; but my primary interest as a writer of articles is military history (European military history from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century, to be precise).

Since first editing Wikipedia in June 2005, I seem to have acquired a couple of interesting jobs:

In addition, I was a reviewer for the "Version 0.5" offline release of Wikipedia.

Selected contributions

I have substantially written a number of articles; the major ones are listed below, in the order in which they were completed:

War of the League of Cambrai 
Featured in November 2005; "Today's featured article" in January 2006. My first major article, this was written before footnotes really came into their own, and doesn't exhibit the more elaborate annotation found in my later work.
Italian War of 1521-1526 
Featured in June 2006. I've never been entirely happy with the shifts between broad overview and exhaustive detail that seem to occur in this one.
Battle of Bicocca 
Featured in July 2006.
Battle of Ceresole 
Featured in October 2006; awarded an honorable mention in Danny's third contest; "Today's featured article" in March 2007. This was my first attempt at truly exhaustive citation, as well as the first article in which I included explicit discussion of historiographical concerns.

In addition, I am the creator and maintainer of the War Portal, which became a featured portal in January 2006, and of the Italian Wars Portal, which became a featured portal in December 2006.

This is a Wikipedia user page. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated, and that the user this page belongs to may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kirill_Lokshin. The design of this page was influenced by the work of Essjay, Lord Emsworth, and numerous other Wikipedians.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../k/i/r/User%7EKirill_Lokshin_7618.html"