Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/September 2023

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Candidate	Votes
Donner60	11
Gog the Mild	12
Harrias	10
Hawkeye7	14
Iazyges	10
Pickersgill-Cunliffe	10
Schierbecker	10

Overview

This election is to appoint the project coordinator team for one year, from 1 October 2023 to 30 September 2024. Coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project. All of the coordinators, and especially the lead coordinator (or lead coordinators), serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues and focus on specific areas requiring special attention. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers.

Responsibilities

From Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators:

The primary responsibility of the project coordinators is the maintenance and housekeeping work involved in keeping the project and its internal processes running smoothly; this includes a variety of tasks, such as keeping the announcement and open task lists updated, overseeing the assessment and review processes, managing the proposal and creation of task forces, and so forth. There is fairly little involved that couldn't theoretically be done by any other editor, of course—in only a few places have the coordinators been explicitly written into a process—but, since experience suggests that people tend to assume that someone else is doing whatever needs to be done, it has proven beneficial to formally delegate responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group.

The coordinators also have several additional roles. They serve as the project's designated points of contact, and are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. In addition, they have (highly informal) roles in leading the drafting of project guidelines, overseeing the implementation of project decisions on issues like category schemes and template use, and helping to resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive.

Practical information on coordinating may be found here and here.

The current coordinators are:

Name	Position	Standing for re-election?
CPA-5	Coordinator
Gog the Mild	Coordinator	Yes
Hawkeye7	Lead Coordinator	Yes
Hog Farm	Coordinator	No
Iazyges	Coordinator
Indy beetle	Coordinator	No
Pickersgill-Cunliffe	Coordinator	Yes
Schierbecker	Coordinator	Yes
Vami_IV	Coordinator	Yes
Zawed	Coordinator	No

Election process

• Nomination period: 00:01 UTC, 01 September to 23:59 UTC, 14 September 2023.
• Voting period: 00:01 UTC, 15 September to 23:59 UTC, 28 September 2023.
• Any member of the project may nominate themselves for a position by adding their statement in the "Candidates" section below by the start of the election. The following boilerplate can be used:

=== Name ===

{{user|Name}}
: Statement goes here...

==== Comments and questions for Name ====

*''What have been the achievements of which you are most proud within the Military history WikiProject?''
**
*''What skills/qualities can you contribute as a coordinator?''
**

==== Votes in support of Name ====

#

• The election will be conducted using simple approval voting. Any member of the project may support as many of the candidates as they wish. The candidate with the highest number of endorsements will become the lead coordinator (provided he or she is willing to assume the post); this position may be shared in the event that multiple candidates receive the highest number of endorsements. The remaining candidates with twenty or more endorsements will be appointed as coordinators to a maximum of eleven appointments (including the lead coordinator). The number of coordinators may be increased or reduced if there is a tie or near-tie for the last position. For the general coordinator election, there are separate nomination and voting periods, but for coordinator emeritus elections, voting begins immediately after nomination.

• Both project members and interested outside parties are encouraged to ask questions of the nominees or make general comments.

Candidates

Voting is now concluded.

Current time is 03:54, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Gog the Mild

Gog the Mild (talk · contribs)

I have been active on Wikipedia for six years, during which MilHist has become my Wiki-home and I have much appreciated the wonderful and creative space made available for me. Working as a coordinator over the past four years has seemed a useful way of partially paying back for the use of the "playground" and perhaps helping to maintain it as the collegiate place that it is. Note that as usual I have a Shermanesque attitude towards the possibility of being elected lead coordinator.

Comments and questions for Gog the Mild

• What have been the achievements of which you are most proud within the Military history WikiProject?
  • Shining a little light into some of the lesser known corners of military history. I am especially pleased with the battles of Crécy and Heraklion and the more recently promoted Battle of Zama.

• What skills/qualities can you contribute as a coordinator?
  • Some enthusiasm and some time. As a natural Wikignome I actually enjoy some of the more repetitive or routine activities, so I am able to free some of the more experienced coordinators' time up for some of the more high-skill activities. I also review MilHist nominations, especially for for promotion to Featured Article and occasionally for A Class status.

Hawkeye7

Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) I have been part of the project since 2007, and was a coordinator from 2012 to 2016, and 2018-2022. I was elected lead coordinator in 2022. I was the project Military Historian of the Year in 2012, and the runner up in 2014, 2016 and 2022. I have created or improved 107 Featured Articles, 141 A-class Articles, and 368 Good Articles. I am one of the 1,000 most active Wikipedians, with over 100,000 edits. My particular field of interest is military logistics, the subject of my PhD thesis. Lately, I have written a series of articles about logistics in the Allied campaign in North West Europe in 1944. I currently have the History of military logistics article up for A-class review, and hope to improve military logistics] in the upcoming year.

Comments and questions for Hawkeye7

• What have been the achievements of which you are most proud within the Military history WikiProject?
  • The main project I worked on was improving the articles on the Manhattan Project. This involved the improvement to Good article status or better for over a hundred articles. The history of the Manhattan Project was turned into a Featured Topic. As a result of the recent Oppenheimer film, I have been revisiting the Manhattan Project articles, especially the one on J. Robert Oppenheimer, which has run up over twenty million page views in the 90 days. In more recent times I have enjoyed writing articles on military logistics and nuclear-powered rockets.
• What skills/qualities can you contribute as a coordinator?
  • I have access to academic libraries and online journal resources, and have experience with military history research related to World War I and II. I also write and maintain Bots, in Perl and C#. The role of the coordinator used to be quite complex and I wrote the MilHistBot, initially to handle the work involved in promoting articles to A-class. This made the task of promoting A-class articles much easier. Since then I have set the MilHistBot to work cleaning up our project backlogs. Coordinators no longer have to deal with most backlogs any more, and we are approaching our goals with regard to the overall quality of articles. In recent times, in my role as lead coordinator, I have been involved with the move of our WikiProject banner to use the {{WPBannerMeta}} meta-template. DFlhb has done all the real work, but I lobbied for our project not to be regarded as an outlier.

Nomination for Coordinator Emeritus (Peacemaker67)

Except for a one year break, Peacemaker67 was a coordinator of this project from September 2013 to September 2022, the last four years as lead coordinator. In that time, he has made significant contributions to the project in many areas. Highlights include: the award of the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in 2022; the Editor of the Week award; successfully nominating 78 Featured Articles (and three featured lists); and one of only four editors to have received our A-Class Cross award. Peacemaker67 is a former Australian Army officer, a graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, who served with the United Nations forces in Yugoslavia.

In recognition of long-standing contributions to the project, on behalf of the @WP:MILHIST coordinators: in my role as lead coordinator, it is my pleasure to nominate Peacemaker67 to be appointed as Coordinator Emeritus. The objective of this nomination is that the project and the coordinator team may continue to benefit from Peacemaker67's help and experience.

While the position of coordinator emeritus has no special responsibilities, it comes with the ability to act as a coordinator in all respects, and is held for as long as the holder wishes. If this nomination is successful, Peacemaker67 would join Kirill Lokshin, Roger Davies, TomStar81, Ian Rose and Nick-D who have been Coordinators Emeritus since 2008, 2009, 2018, 2020 and 2021 respectively. The appointment would be in addition to the coordinators appointed via the above election and, unlike the general coordinator election above, the voting period commences immediately. By tradition, all project members are asked to indicate their support or opposition to Peacemaker67's appointment below. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:19, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Support

1. As nominator. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:19, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
2. Peacemaker67 has made and continues to make huge contributions to the project, and Wikipedia's coverage of military history more broadly. Nick-D (talk) 03:22, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
3. Absolutely endorse this, having worked alongside Peacemaker67 through a number of terms as a coordinator. Zawed (talk) 03:55, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
4. Support, has made enormous contributions for the project for many years. Hog Farm _Talk 04:10, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
5. Support. It shouldn't have taken us so long to get to this. Gog the Mild (talk) 10:20, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
6. One of our best ever. BusterD (talk) 13:30, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
7. Support, obvious choice. TwoScars (talk) 14:44, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
8. Support, well deserved; thanks for all the great work as well. Donner60 (talk) 09:15, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
9. Well of course; PM is a brave and conscientious editor, and from his earliest days on the project looked like great coord -- and lead coord -- material, as he proved to be. The project will only benefit from his continued presence as coord emeritus. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 21:56, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
10. Hell yes. 'Nuf said. TomStar81 (Talk) 13:19, 6 September 2023 (UTC)