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

Welcome to the eleventh Bugle edition of 2016!

As always, last month's featured and A-class promotions can be found in our article news section, and discusses the precarious state of America's nuclear arsenal at the onset of the Cold War in our regular book review section. Hawkeye also gives us the lowdown on his immense effort to create a comprehensive suite of good, A-class and featured articles on the people, technology and facilities associated with the Manhatten Project in World War II in our semi-regular review essay section. Meanwhile, 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 also looks at changing political and military leadership among the belligerents in this month's op-ed.

Speaking of A-class articles, the Bugle would like to congratulate on his first A-Class medal!

In other news, nominations for the Military Historian and Military History Newcomer of the Year awards opened on December 4 and will run through December 17; voting for the nominees will begin December 18. All members of the Military history WikiProject are encouraged to nominate editors they feel to be worthy of the award. The winners will be awarded with their barnstars on January 1, 2017.

Finally, the long-running monthly article-writing contest continues to be well-patronised, attracting fourteen participants last month, the largest field in several years. New blood is always welcome!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers!

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


 * The WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves has been awarded to:
 * in recognition of her dedication to the project during her four terms as coordinator, and for her continuing work as a Featured Article Review coordinator, creator of quality content, and prolific reviewer at A-Class and Featured level


 * The A-Class medal with Diamonds has been awarded to:
 * for Metallurgical Laboratory, Montreal Laboratory, and K-25


 * The A-Class medal with Swords has been awarded to:
 * for John Hines (Australian soldier), Operation Leader, and Operation Paravane
 * for Hawker Hurricane in Yugoslav service, Orjen-class torpedo boat, and Royal Yugoslav Navy


 * The A-Class medal has been awarded to:
 * for Operation Flavius, Death on the Rock, and Devon County War Memorial
 * for List of destroyers of India, List of National Defence Academy alumni, and List of Param Vir Chakra recipients


 * The contest department completed its 113th round of competition last month. There were 50 articles submitted by 14 editors. This month saw some new faces on the podium with Krishna Chaitanya Velaga coming first with 63 points from 6 articles, and Peacemaker67 coming second with 62 points from 8 articles. KCV received the Chevrons for their efforts and PM the Writer's Barnstar. An honorable mention goes to Parsecboy who notched up 59 points from 7 articles. Zawed, TeriEmbrey, Australian Rupert, Arius1998, Djmaschek,  Ian Rose, Iazyges, Miyagawa, Marek69, Kges1901, and acfrue also fielded entries. Please submit any articles you are working on for this month's round of competition now.