Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/December 2017/Project news

Welcome to the final edition of the Bugle for 2017 --

This edition features lots of reading for the Christmas break. The article news section covers several new A-class articles on a wide range of topics, as well as a small but diverse set of new featured articles. The book reviews section also has many external reviews, hopefully providing some ideas for Christmas presents as well as Wikipedia articles!

has once again kindly provided two entries on World War I. His regular timeline of the war provides a summary of December 1917, during which the fighting in France petered out for the year but several important diplomatic developments took place. Tom's second contribution is an op-ed covering the disastrous Halifax Explosion, which destroyed much of the Canadian port city, and remains one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever. Wikipedia's article on the incident was developed to FA standard by in 2015, and was the featured article of the day on 6 December this year to mark its centenary.

As we head towards the end of the year, December also sees the project look to identify the Military Historian of the Year, and the Newcomer of the Year. All project members are encouraged to nominate editors they feel are worthy of recognition. Nominations for these awards are open until 23:59 GMT on 15 December, after which there will be a 14-day voting period commencing on 16 December. Nominations and voting will take place on the main project talk page.

Finally, we would like to wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and happy new year!

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


 * The A-Class medal with Swords has been awarded to:
 * for SMS Brandenburg, SMS Wittelsbach, and Greek battleship Salamis
 * for St Vincent-class battleship, HMS Neptune (1909), and German destroyer Z1 Leberecht Maass


 * The A-Class medal has been awarded to:
 * for German destroyer Z39, German destroyer Z1 Leberecht Maass, and German destroyer Z2 Georg Thiele


 * The contest department has completed its 125th round of competition in November. A total of 50 articles were submitted by 10 editors. Kges1901 came first 105 points from 17 articles, while Parsecboy came second with 67 points from eight articles. Kges has been awarded the Chevrons for his achievement, and Parsecboy has received the Writer's Barnstar. Auntieruth, AustralianRupert, Catlemur, Djmaschek, Iazyges, Peacemaker67, The Bushranger, and Zawed also contributed entries. Points will go towards the 2017 Military History Writers' Contest Cup, which will be decided at the end of the December contest. Please submit any articles you are working on for the next round of the competition now.