The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXXI (September 2008)
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- Project news
- The sixth project coordinator election has now concluded. The following editors have been elected to serve as project coordinators until 31 March 2009: Bedford, Cam, Eurocopter, JonCatalán, MBK004, Nick Dowling, Roger Davies (lead), TomStar81, and Woody. Kirill Lokshin has been appointed coordinator emeritus for as long he wants the position. Congratulations to those elected, and thanks to everyone who participated!
- Following a successful RfA, Buckshot06 has been promoted to administrator. We wish him every success in his new role!
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- Articles of note
New featured articles:
- AMX-30E
- Battle of Goliad
- Guadalcanal Campaign
- Harry Murray
- Morotai Mutiny
- Phan Xich Long
New featured lists:
- List of Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross recipients
- List of Zulu War Victoria Cross recipients
New featured topics:
- Guadalcanal Campaign
New A-Class articles:
- 2nd Canadian Infantry Division
- Air Combat Group RAAF
- Battle of Berlin
- Blair Anderson Wark
- Late Roman army
- Operation Lüttich
- SMS Von der Tann
- SS Minnesotan
- SS Montanan
- SS Ohioan (1914)
- SS Panaman
- SS Washingtonian
- USS Iowa (BB-61)
- USS West Bridge (ID-2888)
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- Current proposals and discussions
- The W1.0 Editorial Team have selected 1133 Military history articles for inclusion in the W0.7 test release. For convenience, these are broken by task force and you'll find a list on each task force headed "Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for [task force name]" on the task force talk page. You may nominate extra articles for inclusion or existing ones for removal. If you can improve any of the articles on the list, by adding references, or copy-editing, or cleaning up generally, please do so.
- A new discussion has started about naming articles on Soviet WWII operations. All contributions are welcome as we hope to resolve this longstanding issue once and for all.
- The debate over whether Milhist should adopt C-Class is continuing. All comments and suggestions are welcome.
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- Awards and honors
- Bellhalla has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his exemplary work on military history articles and DYK entries.
- For their work improving articles through the Military history review process, Borg Sphere, Cla68, Eurocopter, Nick Dowling, TomStar81, Woody, JonCatalán, Brad and Cam, have been awarded the Content Review Medal.
- The Contest department has completed its eighteenth month of competition, which saw 45 entries. The top scorer this month is Bellhalla with a record 151 points, followed by Abraham, B.S. with 27 points. Woody, Cam, YellowMonkey, Piotrus, David Underdown, Borg Sphere, Tartarus, Ed!, and Out also fielded entries. Bellhalla is now the overall leader, with 300 points in total. The Chevrons go to Bellhalla and Abraham, B.S. gets the Writer's Barnstar. You are encouraged to submit any articles you are working on as entries.
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