Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/April 2016/Project news

Welcome to the fourth Bugle edition of 2016!

As always, last month's featured and A-class promotions can be found in our article news section, while and  discuss a couple of interesting reads in our regular book review section. provides a summary of the key events around the world during this month a hundred years ago in his ongoing World War I timeline, and looks in detail at one of those events, Ireland's Easter Rising, in this month's op-ed.

In other news, two new discussions have opened that are of interest to the military history project. The first discussion concerns the use of DMY dates as opposed to MDY dates in military history related biography articles, and the extent to which military history related biography articles should conform to WP:DATETIES. The argument being made is that the articles in which military history is not the sole reason for the article's existence should not conform to the DMY standard but the MDY standard as the person's biography warrants. The other discussion began as a result of recent moves among ship related articles aimed at removing the ship classification and hull number from the article's name. For those of you not nautically oriented, those are the letters and numbers that follow a ship name in parenthesis after the name of the ship and help to identify it (i.e. BB-63 for USS Missouri, SSBN-726 for USS Ohio, and so forth). The reason given for the article moves is conformation to WP:PRECISE, however a discussion has opened up as to whether or not it would be advisable to continue the practice. As always, input from the community is welcome to help us reach consensus.

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


 * The A-Class medal with Swords has been awarded to:
 * for 7th Army (Kingdom of Yugoslavia), 1st Cavalry Division (Kingdom of Yugoslavia), and 27th Infantry Division Savska


 * The contest department has completed its 105th round of competition last month. Another hotly contested month, there were a total of 60 articles being submitted by 10 editors. First place went to Parsecboy with 97 points from 13 articles, while Kges1901 came second with 93 points from 19 articles. For their efforts, Parsecboy received the Chevrons and Kges earned the Writer's Barnstar. AustralianRupert, Catlemur, Ian Rose, Peacemaker67, Zawed, Sturmvogel66, and Lineagegeek also fielded entries. Please submit any articles you are working on for this month's round of competition now.