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Your military history newsletter – Issue 207, July 2023 Front page • Project news • Article news • Book reviews

From the editors

Welcome to the seventh Bugle for 2023!

The regular book review section includes two reviews. Nick-D has shared his views on a small book that discusses the underlying causes of the alleged war crimes committed by Australian special forces in Afghanistan. Hawkeye7 has also reviewed a much longer work on the 1944–1945 Philippines campaign.

The article news section suggests that the article assessment and promotion process is currently in good health: it includes six new featured articles, two new featured pictures and six new A-class articles. As always, there are quite a few articles up for featured and A-class assessments where reviews would be most welcome.

Finally, as unlikely as it sounds, we are nearing the end of the XXII coordinator tranche. Editors and participants of the project are reminded that as the current coordinator tranche draws to a close nominations and voting for the next tranche will be commencing in September. If you or anyone you know is interested in become a project coordinator, feel free to sign up or encourage someone to run. More information on becoming a coordinator can be found here and here.

Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk)

Awards and honours

• The A-Class medal has been awarded to:

• The A-Class medal with Oak Leaves has been awarded to:

Contest department

The June edition of the contest department's article writing contest saw Simongraham take out top spot for the second month in a row, with 60 points from ten articles. They claim the Wikichevrons as their prize. Runner-up, also for the second month in a row, was Zawed, getting the Writer's Barnstar with 46 points from eight articles. Other entries were submitted by Sturmvogel_66, Pickersgill-Cunliffe, Gog the Mild, Hog Farm and Donner60.

Now that we are halfway through the year, now is an appropriate time for recap of the overall standings. In the lead is Zawed, with a total of 263 points from 43 articles. Just 20 points behind is Sturmvogel_66, having submitted 38 articles so far in the year. Rounding out the podium at this stage is Gog the Mild who has 182 points from 15 articles (an impressive 12 points per article!).

The July edition of the contest is now open, consider submitting your current article projects as entries into the competition.

About The Bugle First published in 2006, the Bugle is the monthly newsletter of the English Wikipedia's Military history WikiProject. » About the project » Visit the Newsroom » Subscribe to the Bugle » Browse the Archives + Add a commentDiscuss this story These comments are automatically transcluded from this article's talk page. To follow comments, add the page to your watchlist. If your comment has not appeared here, you can try . @Zawed: "In third place is Simongraham". You might want to fact check that. . Gog the Mild (talk) 21:19, 3 July 2023 (UTC) Oops, forgot to change the sort order in the table from alphabetical to points total, sorry about that! Fixed. Zawed (talk) 22:02, 3 July 2023 (UTC)