Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/December 2020/Project news

Welcome to the twelfth Bugle for 2020!

The article news section features many new featured articles, pictures and A-class articles -- kudos to all involved. The topics covered are very diverse and include a space program, a nurse, a castle and a little-known battle of the American Civil War.

In the regular book review section, has followed up a review of a book on the modern Russian Army he posted last month with a review of a work on the current war in the Ukraine -- the book isn't as good though. The section also includes several external reviews, which might have some good ideas for last-minute Christmas presents!

Project members featured significantly in the final eight of the 2020 WikiCup, coming second, and  and  placing fifth and seventh respectively. Gog also received the award for the most Featured Articles contributed during the WikiCup, a total of fourteen! Well done to all who participated, and thanks to project coordinator who officiated as a judge!

Welcome to the following editors who joined the project in November:, , Sheppey Red, OakMapping, , and. If have any questions, please post on the project talk page or contact one of the coordinators!

Finally, we would like to wish all members of the project a happy and safe Christmas and new year. We join you in hoping for 2021 to be much better than the year gone past.

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

All contributors to the project who have had a hand in promoting any Military History WikiProject articles to Featured Article status are advised that Featured Articles promoted before 2016 are in need of review. A non-exhaustive list of articles that could benefit from checking has been developed and posted at Unreviewed featured articles/2020. If you had an article promoted to Featured status on or before 2016 you are requested to please check and update the article(s) in question -- they can be marked as satisfactory, "noticed" for some improvements, or listed at FAR/C if well below standard. Currently, there are 1,286 featured articles within the scope of the project, and our progress to the next stated goal of 1,500 will inevitably suffer a delay if this task is not taken up and MilHist Featured Articles are demoted through FAR/C. Project members are similarly advised that some of the editors responsible for the promotion of this featured content may no longer be on Wikipedia, therefore we are asking if a few experienced contributors would take upon themselves the task of reviewing these articles and doing what you can to bring them up to the current Featured Article standard.

In Featured Topic news, just had his 36-article/list Good Topic Ships of the Royal Yugoslav Navy upgraded to Featured with the promotion of Yugoslav destroyer Ljubljana. This is the fourth largest warfare Featured Topic (the larger ones are also naval topics). Likewise, recently had his five-article Good Topic Punic Wars upgraded to Featured, following the promotion of Third Punic War. Nice work both of you!


 * The A-Class medal has been awarded to:
 * Hog Farm for 3rd Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate), 1st Missouri Field Battery, and 8th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate).

The November round of the article improvement contest attracted six participants, with 29 articles being improved. First place went to with 98 points from 13 articles, earning the WikiChevrons. Sturmvogel 66 took second with 66 points from 7 articles and they received the Writer's Barnstar. Also scoring were Catlemur, Djmaschek, Peacemaker67, and Zawed. Congratulations and thanks to all participants. You can self-assess up to C-class for the contest, but B-class assessments need to be done by another editor. This is best organised by posting at WP:MHAR. Make sure to add your entries for the contest as soon as they are promoted, this allows time for them to be checked progressively.