Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/December 2019/Project news

Welcome to the twelfth edition of The Bugle for 2019!

In a major milestone, Sturmvogel 66 recently had his 85th Featured Article promoted, placing him in fourth place across the whole of Wikipedia. Sturm also features in A-Class news, as he was awarded his first A-Class Cross in November, making him one of only three editors to have received the award, which represents over 100 articles and lists. In both respects, this is an incredible contribution to the encyclopaedia. Sturm also features in another major milestone, along with Parsecboy and The ed17, who recently had the 47-article Battleships of Japan promoted to Featured Topic!

The new A-class articles covered in the article news section have a decidedly nautical flavour, with four of the seven covering warships.

The regular book reviews section includes two reviews by of recent works covering US Army logistics in occupied Germany and American high-altitude nuclear weapons tests. also provides an assessment on a recent reprint of 'letters from London' written for an American magazine during World War II.

We'd both like to wish all members of the project a very merry Christmas and happy New Year.

And before we end the year both the Military Historian of the Year and the Military History Newcomer of the Year awards are now open to vote. Please feel free to vote to those who are nominated for their hard work in the project in the past year. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk)


 * The A-Class medal with Diamonds has been awarded to:
 * Peacemaker67 for Arthur Blackburn, Yugoslav destroyer Ljubljana, and 1st Army Group (Kingdom of Yugoslavia)..


 * The A-Class cross has been awarded to:
 * Sturmvogel 66 for HMS Audacious (1912), Russian battleship Knyaz Suvorov, Soviet cruiser Kalinin, Japanese battleship Kawachi, and Soviet destroyer Soobrazitelny (1940)..

The fourth annual Military History Article Writing Contest which ran through 2019 was won by Sturmvogel 66 with a record breaking 1,413 points gained by making a staggering 209 article upgrades. Hearty congratulations. For this tremendous service to MilHist and to Wikipedia they have been awarded the Military History Writers' Contest Cup. An honourable mention goes to Parsecboy who placed second with 804 points for 104 upgrades.

The December 2019 Military History Article Writing Contest attracted eight participants. First place was taken by Parsecboy with 63 points for which they were awarded the WikiChevrons; they were followed by Gog the Mild with 40 points, for which they were awarded the Writer's Barnstar. Also scoring were AustralianRupert, Djmaschek, Harrias, Peacemaker67, Sturmvogel 66 and Zawed. Congratulations and thanks to all participants.