Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/February 2012/Project news

Welcome to the February 2012 edition of your military history newsletter, the Bugle. The project's most prestigious award, the "Military historian of the Year," was voted on and awarded last month. The accolade is given to the editor who is judged by their peers to have made the most significant impact on the subject of military history on Wikipedia. In an Australian sweep, AustralianRupert has won the Golden Wiki, while Ian Rose and Nick-D took second and third. The Bugle wishes to congratulate all three and all the editors nominated for the award. (ed. note: Ian Rose is an editor of the Bugle.)

In other news, the former Russian and Soviet military history task force has been renamed to the Russian, Soviet and CIS military history task force (where the CIS stands for the Commonwealth of Independent States) to better reflect its scope. The coordinators have also reorganized the top of Our project talk page to better focus on the open tasks, such as reviews. They have also eliminated the review notices to the main project talk page, as the page has enough traffic even without a plethora of notices.

Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Ed [talk] [majestic titan]


 * The A-Class medal with Swords was awarded last month to:
 * Parsecboy: for List of ironclad warships of Germany, List of heavy cruisers of Germany and German battleship Bismarck.


 * The A-Class medal with Oak Leaves was awarded last month to:
 * Nick-D: for Action of 28 January 1945, Operation Kita and Air raids on Japan.


 * The A-Class medal was awarded last month to:
 * The Bushranger: for List of armored cruisers of Germany, De Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle and Hall XPTBH


 * The contest department completed its fifty-sixth round of competition last month. A total of 42 articles were submitted by 6 editors. Parsecboy came first with 161 points from 22 entries, followed by Ian Rose with 41 points from 5 entries. They receive the Chevrons and the Writer's Barnstar, respectively. Honourable mentions go to Djmaschek and Sturmvogel 66, with 32 and 28 points respectively.  Cuprum17 and The Bushranger also fielded entries. Please submit any articles you are working on for this month's contest now.