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Project news

• In the contest department, Kevin Myers and Climie.ca were the monthly leaders, with ten points each. Kevin Myers is the overall leader, with twenty points.
• The subject-area contacts initiative is off to a good start, with several contacts having been named. Further exposure of this list is planned.
• {{Infobox Military Cemetery}} and {{Infobox Military Memorial}} have been merged into a single infobox for both types of articles.

Current proposals and discussions

• A discussion about military categories by nation has begun.
• A discussion about military personnel categories by nation is ongoing.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines
2. B-52 aircraft crash at Fairchild Air Force Base
3. Pontiac's Rebellion
4. Russian-Circassian War
5. Shen Kuo
6. Webley Revolver

New A-Class articles:

1. AHS Centaur
2. Operation Lam Son 719
3. Ronald Niel Stuart
4. Zveno project

Awards and honors

• Kevin Myers has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on early modern warfare in North America, and, in particular, the creation of four featured articles on the topic.

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Project news

• The contest department has completed another month of competition. The leader for this month, with 16 points, is Kevin Myers; Carom and Cla68 tied for second place with 10 points each. Kevin is also the overall leader, with 36 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
• Work has begun on a publication about the military history of Athens.
• A number of new subject-area contacts have been approved; we are looking for more capable editors to join this program.
• A brief history of the project has been compiled.

Current proposals and discussions

• A proposal to standardize the layout of navigational templates is being discussed.
• Several category reorganization and renaming proposals have been made; comments are welcome!

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. AHS Centaur
2. Battle of Cape Esperance
3. USS New Jersey (BB-62)

New A-Class articles:

1. Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
2. Battle of Arras (1917)
3. Battle of Red Cliffs
4. Ironclad warship
5. Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident
6. Victoria Cross

Awards and honors

• Noclador has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on structural graphics for land-based forces worldwide, his contributions to the Alpini and other regiments, and all his other military graphics.

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Project news

• The fourth project coordinator elections have now concluded. Nine coordinators have been selected to serve for the next six months: Kirill Lokshin, Carom, FayssalF, LordAmeth, Kyriakos, TomStar81, Cla68, Eurocopter tigre, and Roger Davies. Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to all of the candidates who put themselves forward for this responsibility, and to the retiring coordinators for all of their efforts to improve the project!
• The contest department has completed another month of competition. The leader for this month, with 23 points, is Blnguyen; JKBrooks85 is in second place, with 17 points, and Carom is in third place, with 13 points. Carom is also the overall leader, with 45 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
• The project's article tagging and assessment drivecontinues; project members are cordially invited to assist with this effort.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. Attack on Sydney Harbour
2. Augustus
3. Cædwalla of Wessex
4. Confederate government of Kentucky
5. Ine of Wessex
6. Harry S. Truman
7. Hispanic Americans in World War II
8. Ironclad warship
9. Pham Ngoc Thao
10. Victoria Cross for New Zealand

New featured lists

1. Surviving veterans of World War I

New A-Class articles:

1. Battle of the Plains of Abraham
2. Enfield revolver
3. Fort Stanton (Washington, D.C.)
4. Ho Chi Minh Campaign
5. Jacques Le Gris
6. Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Current proposals and discussions

• A set of flag icon usage guidelines has been proposed; discussion is ongoing.
• Potential guidelines on military unit notability are being discussed.

Awards and honors

• Wandalstouring was awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his long and dedicated service as a project coordinator and his many contributions to the structure and operations of the project.

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Project news

• The Taiwanese military history and War films task forces have been created.
• The contest department has completed its sixth month of competition. The leader for this month, with 57 points, is JKBrooks85; Kyriakos is in second place, with 16 points, and Blnguyen and Woodym555 are tied for third place, with 10 points each. The overall results for the past six months show JKBrooks85 in first place, with 92 points, followed by Carom, with 45 points, and Blnguyen, with 38 points. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
• A stress hotline is now available for project members' use.
• The bulk of the project's guidelines have been moved to a separate subpage.
• New guidelines for flag icon use have been adopted.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
2. Battle for Henderson Field
3. Battle of Greece
4. Battle of Ramillies
5. Egbert of Wessex
6. Frederick Russell Burnham
7. Freedom Monument (Riga)
8. Issy Smith
9. Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
10. Omaha Beach
11. Victoria Cross (Canada)
12. Winfield Scott Hancock

New A-Class articles:

1. Barton S. Alexander
2. Battle of Barrosa
3. Byzantine-Arab Wars
4. Cleomenean War
5. Fort Bayard (Washington, D.C.)
6. Fort Corcoran
7. Fort Runyon
8. George Jones (RAAF officer)
9. Jean de Carrouges
10. Operation Passage to Freedom
11. Smolensk War

New Featured lists:

1. Army Groups of the National Revolutionary Army
2. Puerto Ricans Missing in Action in the Korean War

New Featured topics:

1. Victoria Cross

Current proposals and discussions

• A proposal to formalize the project's style guide as part of Wikipedia's Manual of Style has been made and is being discussed; comments and suggestions would be very appreciated!

Awards and honors

• SandyGeorgia was awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of the instrumental role she plays in the featured article process, both by checking the project's featured article candidates to ensure that citations are formatted correctly, and by helping clear out the backlog of featured articles that no longer meet the criteria. Sandy is the first non-member of the project to receive this award.

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Project news

• The contest department has completed its seventh month of competition. The leader for this month, with 22 points, is JKBrooks85; Kyriakos is in second place, with 21 points, and Blnguyen is in third place, with 10 points. Overall, JKBrooks85 remains in first place, with 114 points. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
• The Biography WikiProject's military work group has now been integrated into the project as the Military biography task force.
• The Romanian military history and Fortifications task forces have been created.
• The popular culture content guideline has been updated.
• {{WPMILHIST}} now supports short-form task force tags; see the project banner instructions for more details.
• The B-Class checklist in the {{WPMILHIST}} project banner now generates categories corresponding to the areas in which an article needs attention; similar sets of categories exist for each task force as well. The available categories are:
  • Category:Military history articles needing attention to referencing and citation
  • Category:Military history articles needing attention to coverage and accuracy
  • Category:Military history articles needing attention to structure
  • Category:Military history articles needing attention to grammar
  • Category:Military history articles needing attention to supporting materials

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
2. BAE Systems
3. Battle of Barrosa
4. Prince Louis of Battenberg
5. Second Ostend Raid
6. Thomas C. Hindman

New A-Class articles:

1. Alexandru Averescu
2. Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
3. Fort Jackson (Virginia)
4. Richard Williams (RAAF officer)
5. Tet Offensive
6. Wallachian Revolution of 1848

Current proposals and discussions

• Discussions about tagging articles by sources used and as needing attention have begun.
• A discussion about re-structuring the top-level category scheme has begun.
• A discussion about infobox width and font sizes has begun.
• A proposal to create a formal project style guide is on the final stages of discussion.

Awards and honors

• JKBrooks85 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his diligent efforts to improve our coverage of fortifications in the American Civil War, and, in particular, his creation of a substantial number of A-Class articles.
• Tony the Marine has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his considerable efforts in raising Puerto Rican- and Hispanic-related military history articles to featured status.

What is Tag & Assess MMVII? We'd better explain. A month or so back, we ran a script to list all the articles in categories related to military history. This gave us about 165,000 articles. Some of these are already tagged and assessed as military history; some are military history but not yet tagged and assessed; some are not military history articles at all. This huge project — working thorough 165,000 articles — is called Tag & Assess 2007. To make it manageable, the list has been broken down into 330 ranges each of 500 articles. This is where you can help.

Just... adopt-a-range from the available worklists then keep track of your tally on participants' list. The tagging is easy, just follow the simple instructions. Afterwards, as our way of thanking you, you'll be presented with service awards and barnstars based on the number of articles you process. Remember... the ranges are broken down into sub-sections of ten articles, so you work through them at twenty or thirty articles a day if you wish. To make Tag & Assess 2007 a success, we need your help. Please sign up now. Thanks.

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Project news

• The military history style guide has been integrated into Wikipedia's Manual of Style.
• The contest department has completed its eight month of competition. The leader for this month, with a massive 92 points, is Blnguyen; Woodym555 is in second place, with 32 points, and Cla68 and TomStar81 are tied for third place, with 15 points each. Overall, Blnguyen is now in first place, with 140 points, followed by JKBrooks85, with 120 points, and by Woodym555, with 63 points. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
• The American Revolutionary War and Baltic states military history task forces have been created.
• Tag & Assess 2007—the project's first major article tagging and assessment drive—is continuing; all project members—and anyone else who's interested—are invited to assist with this effort.
• The number of articles tagged as being within our scope has now exceeded 50,000.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. Battle of Red Cliffs
2. James II of England
3. Lawrence Sullivan Ross
4. Pre-dreadnought battleship
5. Thomas C. Hindman
6. USS Kentucky (BB-66)

New featured lists:

1. List of Australian Victoria Cross recipients
2. List of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients

New featured portals:

1. Military of Greece

New A-Class articles:

1. 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident
2. Battle of the Gebora
3. Battle of Vaslui
4. Le Quang Tung
5. Morotai Mutiny
6. Phan Dinh Phung
7. Truong Dinh
8. USS Illinois (BB-65)
9. Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang
10. Yen Bai mutiny

Current proposals and discussions

• A proposal to introduce a project motto is being discussed.
• A discussion regarding flag icons in biographical infoboxes has begun.

Awards and honors

• Mike Christie was awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on Anglo-Saxon military history, including the production of numerous featured articles.

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Project news

• The Intelligence task force has been created.
• The contest department has completed its ninth month of competition. The top scorer this month is Blnguyen, with 22 points, followed by Dreamafter, with 8 points, and Redmarkviolinist, with 6 points. Blnguyen also remains the overall leader, with 162 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
• Help with converting deprecated infoboxes is needed; any assistance is welcome!
• {{WPMILHIST}} now supports an explicit tag (class=DAB) for marking disambiguation pages.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. Battle of Albuera
2. Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
3. Battle of the Gebora
4. Constantine II of Scotland
5. Francis Harvey
6. Vasa (ship)
7. Wulfhere of Mercia

New A-Class articles:

1. 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing
2. Evacuation of East Prussia

Current proposals and discussions

• A discussion about minimizing terminological ambiguity has begun.

Awards and honors

• Blnguyen has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his efforts in improving the quality of articles related to Vietnamese military history, including the creation of numerous A-Class articles.
• Woodym555 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on topics related to the Victoria Cross, notably including the creation of featured articles, featured lists, and a featured topic.
• For their outstanding efforts as part of Tag & Assess 2007, Bedford, TomStar81, and Parsival74 have been awarded the gold, silver, and bronze Wikis, respectively.

Tag & Assess 2007

Tag & Assess 2007 is now officially over, with slightly under 68,000 articles processed. The top twenty scores are as follows:

Although the drive is officially closed, existing participants can continue tagging until January 31 if they wish, with the extra tags counting towards their tally for barnstar purposes.

We'd like to see what lessons can be learned from this drive, so we've set up a feedback workshop. Comments and feedback from participants and non-particpants alike are very welcome and appreciated.

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