Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/February 2013/Project news

Welcome to the second edition of The Bugle for 2013. The year seems to be flying along!

As always, this edition of The Bugle includes an update on recently promoted Featured and A-Class articles (17 of the latter, incidentally, a monthly record for at least the past year and probably longer). It's interesting to note that a high proportion of the articles promoted in January formed part of a series of similar articles being developed by a single editor. This highlights the benefits of focusing on particular fields -- it's relatively easy to produce multiple high-quality articles once you become familiar with a topic and the references that cover it. There are also opportunities to spin off sub-articles from articles on 'big' topics, or to apply successful approaches to similar subjects (both approaches being familiar to many people with experience in academia!). Of course, many editors also prefer to work on a wide range of topics in order to stay motivated.

The editors would also like to encourage members of the project to contribute to future editions of The Bugle. There is no op-ed in this issue -- we rely on you, our readers and project members, to submit such opinion pieces. The newsroom is located here, and op-eds, news, reviews and articles on any topic broadly related to military history are very welcome. If you have any questions about the suitability of a topic, please don't hesitate to contact either of us.

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


 * The A-Class medal with Swords has been awarded to:
 * Hawkeye7 for Donald Wilson (general), United States v. The Progressive, and Colin Hall Simpson -- this was Hawkeye's 17th A-class medal


 * The A-Class medal with Oak Leaves has been awarded to:
 * Constantine for Battle of Lalakaon, Siege of Constantinople (674–678) and the Battle of the Defile -- all three articles were promoted between December 2012 and January 2013


 * The A-Class medal has been awarded to:
 * PRODUCER for Pavle Đurišić, Dobroslav Jevđević, Kosta Pećanac -- notably, all three articles were co-nominations with Peacemaker67


 * The contest department completed its 68th round of competition last month. A total of 65 articles were submitted by nine editors. Sturmvogel 66 came first with 101 points from 13 entries to receive the Chevrons, followed by Cdtew (making his debut in the contest) who earned the Writer's Barnstar with 92 points from 13 articles. Honourable mentions go to Zawed, Peacemaker67 and The Bushranger with 60, 47 and 44 points respectively. Djmaschek, RoslynSKP, WikiCopter and Arius1998 and also fielded entries. Please submit any articles you are working on for this month's contest now.