Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Outreach/Newsletter September 2007

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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