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Project news

• An independent military history peer review has been created for the benefit of the project. A number of articles have already been reviewed, receiving significantly more feedback within the project than they did on the generic peer review page.
• The project's Collaboration of the Fortnight got off to a great start with Ferdinand Foch and is now focusing on the military history of Spain.
• Two new task forces—dealing with warfare during classical antiquity and the Middle Ages—have been created.
• An effort to build a catalogue of high-quality maps for use in military history articles is now underway.
• The newly-formed translation department is looking for volunteers to help with translating featured articles from other-language Wikipedias.

From the Coordinators

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Military history WikiProject's newsletter! We hope that this new format will help members—especially those who may be unable to keep up with some of the rapid developments that tend to occur—find new groups and programs within the project that they may wish to participate in.

Please consider this inital issue to be a prototype; as always, any comments and suggestions are quite welcome, and will help us improve the newsletter in the coming months.

Kirill Lokshin, Lead Coordinator

Current proposals

• Proposed guidelines for categories of military people are currently being discussed. A number of issues have already been resolved, but the proposed scheme is still in draft form and further input would be very welcome.

Project news

• The various talk page banners used by the project have been consolidated into the main {{WPMILHIST}} template, which now adds extra notices based on various parameters. The older templates are currently in the process of being replaced.
• The old manually-maintained worklist has been replaced with a new system that allows article ratings to be provided directly on the associated talk pages, feeding an automatically generated list. Nearly two thousand articles have already been assessed, and many more still need a rating!
• Five new task forces have been started: Chinese military history, French military history, Memorials and cemeteries, Weaponry, and World War I.
• A new structure for the list of project members has been introduced; to save space and improve legibility, any member with no edits for at least three months will be moved to a separate list of inactive members.

Current proposals and discussions

• Discussions about categories for military people are ongoing, with a number of points regarding naming and structure still needing to be resolved. Additional input from all project members would be extremely welcome!
• Proposals have been made to develop a separate tree of date categories just for military conflicts and to adopt a different project icon.

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Project news

• The coordinator election has concluded; six new Assistant Coordinators have been selected.
• Four new task forces have been created: American Civil War, Dutch military history, German military history, and Italian military history.
• A liaison group with the Biography WikiProject has been started.
• The project userboxes have been moved to subpages of the project due to the German userbox solution; plans to clean up the resulting redirects are currently underway.

From the Coordinators

The coordinator election has concluded, and we now have six new Assistant Coordinators:

• Dryzen (talk · contribs)
• Grafikm_fr (talk · contribs)
• LordAmeth (talk · contribs)
• Nobunaga24 (talk · contribs)
• Oldwindybear (talk · contribs)
• Wandalstouring (talk · contribs)

Congratulations to the newly elected, and thanks to everyone who participated in this process, in whatever capacity!

Kirill Lokshin, Lead Coordinator

Current proposals and discussions

• A set of ideas and proposals for short-term future plans for the project has been made; all project members are invited to offer comments on these, and to suggest other ideas.

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Project news

• A new review process for potential A-Class articles is now operational. Much of the backlog of pre-review articles has already been processed; all project members are invited to take part in future reviews, and to nominate high-quality articles themselves.
• The automation department, which schedules bulk tasks for bot and AWB processing, is now open; all project members can request new tasks and comment on existing requests.
• The various requests for articles and images have been consolidated into the combined requests page, which now includes requests for article creation, maps and other images, translation, and article cleanup.
• Some advice for editors working on featured article candidacies is now available; further suggestions are welcome.
• A showcase of high-quality articles has been added to the project page; it includes featured and A-Class articles within the project's scope.
• The Early Modern warfare task force, covering the period from c. 1500 to c. 1792, has been created.
• A standard category scheme for military conflicts and operations is now available.

Current proposals and discussions

• Discussion continues about possible enhancements to the project award system.
• The proposed category scheme for military units and formations is nearing completion; further commments are welcome!
• A discussion about working on old featured articles with citation problems has begun.
• Several ideas for new task forces are up for debate.

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Project news

• A new guideline concerning "In popular culture" sections has been introduced.
• The new unit and formation category guidelines are being implemented; assistance with bringing the category tree into conformity with them is appreciated!
• The Russian and Soviet military history task force has been created.
• A new infobox for military test sites has being developed.

Current proposals and discussions

• A new proposal for firearm calibre notations is being discussed.
• Several new task forces have been proposed; interested editors are invited to comment!

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Project news

• Five new task forces have been created, covering African military history, Balkan military history, Military historiography, Military science, and Military technology and engineering.
• A guideline for referencing and citation has been adopted.

Current proposals and discussions

• A discussion regarding categories for military people is ongoing.
• New naming conventions for military units have been proposed.
• A discussion concerning project-wide writing contests has begun.

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Project news

• Two new task forces have been created, covering Korean military history and New Zealand military history.
• A new template for external links to images has been created.
• {{KIA}} and {{POW}} templates have been created for use with the names of commanders in {{Infobox Military Conflict}}.
• The new naming convention for military units has been provisionally adopted; please help by moving articles to comply with it! Further comments may be directed here.
• New guidelines and sub-categories for Category:Military history articles needing attention are now available.

Current proposals and discussions

• A proposal for a mass renaming of by-country military conflict categories has been made.
• A discussion about naming conventions for firearms is ongoing.

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Project news

• A set of five criteria for B-Class status has been introduced; new parameters are available in {{WPMILHIST}} to keep track of articles' progress with regard to these criteria.
• The implementation of the new naming convention for military units is continuing.
• The Nordic military history task force has been created.
• All task forces now have their own sets of assessment statistics, logs, and worklists available.
• {{Infobox War Faction}} has been created for use with factions participating in a war.
• A gallery of military related featured pictures has been compiled as part of the project's showcase.
• Several new category naming conventions have been introduced:
  • All categories classifying military conflicts and operations by country (such as Category:Battles by country) have been changed to use "X involving Y" in place of "X of Y". For example, Category:Battles of France is now Category:Battles involving France.
  • All categories classifying warfare by era (such as Category:Battles by era) have been changed to use "X of the Y era" in place of "Y X". For example, Category:Industrial battles is now Category:Battles of the Industrial era.

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Project news

• The new consolidated review department—combining the existing project peer review and A-Class review with a listing of project articles undergoing various external featured content candidacies and reviews—is now operational.
• Two new templates have been introduced:
  • {{Infobox Firearm Cartridge}}, a primary infobox for use with firearm cartridges and artillery shells.
  • {{Command structure}}, an auxiliary infobox designed for use with {{Infobox Military Unit}}.
• An effort is being made to have task forces maintain annotated bibliographies for their topic areas; several task forces have already begun to construct them.
• The project reached two important milestones this month: 500 active members and 30,000 articles in the assessment system.
• A military version of Wikipe-tan has been created; a new userbox featuring one of the images is available for interested project members.

From the coordinators

The third project coordinator elections have now concluded. Seven coordinators have been selected to serve for the next six months:

Carom (talk · contribs)

FayssalF (talk · contribs)

Kirill Lokshin (talk · contribs)

Kyriakos (talk · contribs)

LordAmeth (talk · contribs)

Petercorless (talk · contribs)

Wandalstouring (talk · contribs)

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!

Kirill Lokshin, Lead Coordinator

Current proposals and discussions

• {{Infobox National Military}} is being developed to replace the old {{Military}} template; comments on the draft version are welcome.
• A proposal to introduce a category tree for military campaigns, as well as a number of associated classification guidelines, is being discussed; comments would be very appreciated.

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Project news

• The project's scope has been updated to include depictions of military history in cultural media.
• The Spanish military history task force has been created.
• The project now has a publication department, which will work on producing collections of military history articles for offline publication.
• There is now a list of military-related deletion nominations available.
• Two new sets of guidelines have been introduced:
  • Guidelines for classifying military conflicts and categorizing campaigns
  • Expanded guidelines for citation styles and requesting citations
• Two new templates are now available:
  • {{Infobox National Military}}, a primary infobox for use on articles about an entire nation's military establishment.
  • {{Service record}}, an auxiliary infobox for documenting a military unit's or ship's service history.
• The old requested articles page and the automation department have been discontinued.

Current proposals and discussions

• The new project award structure is nearing completion; a draft currently is up for comment.
• A proposal for replacing the project's collaboration with a contest scheme is being discussed.
• Sign-ups for several potential task forces are open; all interested members are encouraged to list themselves!
• An automated system for locating new articles is currently being tested.

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Project news

• The new contest department has now run through its first month of competition; Carom and Kevin Myers were tied for first place, with ten points each. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
• A new level of the project award, the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves, has been introduced to recognize contributions of truly incredible quality or importance in the area of military history; it is awarded by the project coordinators in the name of the project as a whole.
• A suggested article structure for articles on firearms has been introduced.
• Four new task forces, covering Middle Eastern military history, Ottoman military history, South American military history, and Southeast Asian military history, have been created.
• The project collaboration of the fortnight has been discontinued in favor of the new contest department.

Current proposals and discussions

• A fresh discussion about the by-nation category system for military personnel has begun; suggestions are very welcome!
• The use of flag icons in templates is currently being discussed.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. Battle of Shiloh
2. Battleship
3. British anti-invasion preparations of World War II
4. Domenico Selvo
5. Knights Templar
6. Lochry's Defeat
7. Puerto Ricans in World War II
8. Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
9. Thomas Crisp

New A-Class articles:

1. Benjamin Franklin Tilley
2. Cambodian Campaign
3. List of United States Marine Corps aircraft squadrons
4. Operation Igloo White
5. Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
6. Russian-Circassian War
7. Tupolev TB-3

Awards and honors

• Cla68 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his many valuable contributions to military history articles, and, in particular, his leading role in the creation of numerous featured articles on the topic of the Pacific Theater of World War II.
• RM Gillespie has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his massive efforts to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the Vietnam War, and, in particular, his development of a substantial portion of the project's A-Class articles.
• Wilsbadkarma has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his work on lists (included two featured lists) and portals (including one featured portal). Lists especially are an undermanned area of work, and his excellent efforts deserve commendation.

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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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Project news

• The project coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect nine coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by February 14!
• The contest department has completed its tenth month of competition, which saw an unprecedented 44 entries. The top scorer this month is Dreamafter, with 95 points, followed by Cla68, with 42 points, and Ed! and Woody, with 21 points each. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 182 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
• A new auxiliary infobox, {{operational plan}}, is now available.
• A new page for military history essays has been created; project members are encouraged to post their own advice and opinions on matters within the project's purview.
• New guidelines concerning precision and ship pronouns have been added to the style guide.
• Featured picture candidates and picture peer reviews are now accessible through the project's review department.
• An effort to convert deprecated infoboxes has begun; any assistance is welcome!

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident
2. Battle of Musa Qala
3. George Jones (RAAF officer)
4. Italian War of 1542–1546
5. Jim Bowie
6. Józef Piłsudski
7. Matanikau Offensive
8. Offa of Mercia
9. Suleiman the Magnificent
10. USS Illinois (BB-65)

New featured lists:

1. List of Knight's Cross recipients
2. Order of battle at the Glorious First of June

New A-Class articles:

1. 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
2. Cold War
3. Hans-Joachim Marseille
4. Krulak Mendenhall mission

Current proposals and discussions

• Discussion about top-level operational categories continues.
• A discussion about non-English operational codenames has begun.
• A category restructuring workshop is now open; brainstorming regarding the arrangement of the top-level military history categories is currently ongoing.

Awards and honors

• Bwmoll3 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his superior contributions to a variety of articles about the United States Air Force, including a great number of those dealing with wings and installations.
• Bedford has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of the outstanding contribution he has made to the project's organization by going above and beyond the call of duty in tagging, assessing, and classifying a massive number of articles during the 2007 assessment drive.

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Project news

• The fifth project coordinator election has now concluded. Roger Davies has been elected to serve as the project's Lead Coordinator, and Blnguyen, Eurocopter tigre, Kyriakos, LordAmeth, Nick Dowling, TomStar81, Wandalstouring, and Woody will occupy the eight Assistant Coordinator positions. Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who participated!
• In the simultaneous referendum on project organization, you voted almost unanimously for a primus inter pares structure. As a tangible reflection of this, Assistant Coordinators are now known as Coordinators.
• The contest department has completed its eleventh month of competition, which saw 10 entries. The top scorer this month is Dreamafter, with 28 points, followed by Smsarmad, with 13 points, with Blnguyen, Ed! and jwillbur also fielding entries. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 188 points in total. You are encouraged to submit articles you're working on as entries.
• The National militaries task force has been created.
• A new automatically-generated clean-up list is available to track articles that have various clean-up tags applied to them.
• A new logistics department has been created. The aim is to provide a pool of useful article creation skills that anyone can draw on. These include copy-editing, photograph retouching, and reference material sourcing. If you can contribute, please do so.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident
2. Carlson's patrol
3. Coenwulf of Mercia
4. Glorious First of June
5. Koli Point action
6. Operation Camargue

New featured lists:

1. List of Victoria Cross recipients by nationality

New A-Class articles:

1. 51st Army (Soviet Union)
2. Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975-1999)
3. Le Paradis massacre
4. Military of East Timor
5. USS Bridgeport (AD-10)

Breaking news

• A new B-Class Assessment Drive ("BCAD") will go operational no later than 11 March. Of great interest to experienced wiki-gnomes, it is small in scope, about 4,500 articles, and will be supported by the usual awards, including a golden wiki. To keep up to date with developments, and to get off to a flying start when it opens, add WP:MHA-BCAD now to your watchlist.

Awards and honors

• Kirill Lokshin has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding organizational work, his painstaking maintenance work, and his unstinting advice, throughout his two years of project leadership.
• MBK004 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding effort to improve our compliment of naval ships by updating infoboxes, replacing deprecated infoboxes, and locating sources for ships in the employment of their respective countries' navies.

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Project news

• The Crusades task force has been created.
• The main project talk page is now automatically archived; MiszaBot II will archive any sections that have had no comments for 21 days.
• The contest department has completed its twelth month of competition, which saw 13 entries. The top scorer this month is Woody, with 22 points, followed by Dreamafter with 13 points, with Ed!, jwillbur, Redmarkviolinist and Borg Sphere also fielding entries. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 188 points in total. You are encouraged to submit articles you're working on as entries.
• A Sources section has been added to the Logistics department, for help tracing and locating JSTOR articles and other source material.
• A Linguistics section has been added to the Logistics department, for help with non-English language sources and translation of snippets. It supports 19 languages so far.
• An Administrators section has been added to the Logistics department, for help with admin related tasks. Administrators willing to help out are cordially asked to list their names in the section.
• Reminder: Editors are always needed to review various military history articles at all levels.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. Æthelred of Mercia
2. Cannon
3. HMAS Melbourne (R21)
4. Huldrych Zwingli
5. Timor Leste Defence Force
6. USS Bridgeport (AD-10)

New featured lists:

1. List of countries without armed forces
2. List of foreign recipients of the Knight's Cross
3. List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Battle of Iwo Jima
4. List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Royal Navy

New featured topics:

1. Atlantic campaign of May 1794

New A-Class articles:

1. Armia Krajowa
2. Heuschrecke 10
3. USS Siboney (ID-2999)
4. William Stacy

Awards and honors

• Kirill Lokshin has been appointed coordinator emeritus to reflect his on-going involvement in the project. The appointment ends concurrently with the other coordinators' terms in September 2008.
• The following editors have been awarded the Content Review Medal for their work on reviews at various levels of military history articles: Carom, Cam, Blnguyen, Howard C. Berkowitz, Kevin Myers, Maralia, MrPrada, SoLando, and Wandalstouring. Similar awards were made last December to: Buckshot06, Cla68, Eurocopter tigre, Hawkeye7, Ian Rose, Jackyd101, JKBrooks85, Kyriakos, LordAmeth, Nick Dowling, Roger Davies, The Land, TomStar81 and Woody, most of whom are still active reviewers.

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Project news

• Tag & Assess 2008 launched on 24 April and will run until 4 July. We have around 60,000 articles to check, so all assistance is very welcome. As usual, there are barnstars galore and service awards for contributing editors.
• The project scope has been amended to include specific reference to historically accurate video games. Songs and music with long military associations are also now included.
• The Contest department has completed its thirteenth month of competition, which saw 27 entries. The top scorer this month is Ed! with 37 points, followed by Cam with 22 points. Woody, Howard C. Berkowitz, Redmarkviolinist, Nousernamesleft and Outdawg also fielded entries. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 188 points in total. You are encouraged to submit articles you're working on as entries.
• The coordinators have "adopted" task forces to act as prime point of contact. A list of which coordinators have adopted which task forces is here.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
2. 1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing
3. Lazare Ponticelli
4. Maximian
5. Peterloo Massacre
6. The Third of May 1808
7. USS Orizaba (ID-1536)
8. USS Siboney (ID-2999)

New featured lists:

1. List of Irish Victoria Cross recipients
2. Order of battle at the Battle of Tory Island

New featured portals:

1. Portal:American Civil War

New A-Class articles:

1. 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team (United States)
2. Battle of Bonchurch
3. Battle of Tassafaronga
4. Early thermal weapons
5. HMS Cardiff (D108)
6. USS Comfort (AH-3)
7. USS Orizaba (ID-1536)

Current proposals and discussions

• An interesting proposal to set up teams to deal with specific tasks, like taking the Top Ten most frequently read military history articles to featured articles status is here.
• The coordinators are exploring ways of developing and improving our fifty or so task forces. More information is here.
• All editors are invited to contribute to a discussion about the naming of military operations in an endeavor to reach consensus.

Awards and honors

• Congratulations and kudos to the four top-performing editors in BCAD: CAM (1st); Legotech (2nd); Harland1 (3rd) and Smsarmad (4th). They helped assess 4303 B-class Milhist articles. Well done!
• To belatedly commemorate the first anniversary of the Contest department, the overall annual winner, Blnguyen, has been awarded the Chevrons and the March monthly winner, Woody, and runner-up, Dreamafter, each receive the Writer's Barnstar.

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Project news

• Editors needed for Tag & Assess 2008. To coincide with the summer holidays, it will be gearing up from 15 June. As usual, barnstars galore!
• Partner peer reviews: for a thirty-day trial period, we'll be running joint peer reviews with Wikiproject Video Games. The idea is simple: we help with their reviews; they help with ours. This way both wikiprojects benefit from new reviewers and new ideas!
• We're notable: A new book, Simon Fowler's 2007 Guide to Military History on the Internet (UK:Pen & Sword, ISBN 9781844156061) rates Wikipedia as "the best general resource" for military research (p. 7). Of the military pages, he says: "The results are largely accurate and generally free of bias" (he also suggests people join the wikiproject). When rating WP as the No. 1 military site (p. 201) he says "Wikipedia is often criticised for its inaccuracy and bias, but in my experience the military history articles are spot on."
• A-Class reviews: the usual four-day review period may now be extended by up to three days (ie seven days in total) in the following circumstances:

1. the article has no opposes but has insufficient support for promotion or
2. the article's nominator requests more time to resolve matters arising during the review.

The full text is here.

• The special projects department has opened. It will focus on specific ad-hoc high-priority tasks and implement them with informal, short-term groups of editors.
• The Contest department has completed its fourteenth month of competition, which saw 16 entries. The top scorer this month is Cam with 21 points, followed by Redmarkviolinist with 11 points. Woody, Dreamafter, Kyriakos, Nousernamesleft and Outdawg also fielded entries. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 188 points in total. You are encouraged to submit articles you're working on as entries.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. Battle of Tassafaronga
2. Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood
3. HMS Cardiff (D108)
4. Krulak Mendenhall mission
5. Le Quang Tung
6. Operation Passage to Freedom
7. Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi

New featured lists:

1. List of Texan survivors of the Battle of the Alamo
2. List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Royal Navy
3. List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Indian Army

New A-Class articles:

1. Battle of the Kalka River
2. Battle of Verrières Ridge
3. Brian Horrocks
4. Byzantine navy
5. Erich Hartmann
6. Montana class battleship

Current proposals and discussions

• A discussion has been opened into the structuring of top level operational categories, starting with Category:World War II. All interested editors are invited to help establish a consensus.

Awards and honors

• Congratulations go to Hlj, who has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his many consistently fine and valuable contributions to military history articles within the American Civil War task force.

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