Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/February 2016/Project news

Welcome to the second Bugle edition of 2016!

Our regular article news update includes some striking new featured pictures, as well as a roundup of new featured and A-class articles. Thanks to Adam Cuerden for compiling the images.

The book review section covers two new works: a history of Britain's little-known nuclear missile force, and a book covering Australia's contribution to the final 18 months of World War II. In addition, there's the usual coverage of new military history reviews posted in high quality sources.

TomStar81 once again brings us an update on what happened in World War I 100 years ago, with February 1916 marking the beginning of the terrible Battle of Verdun.

Following a months long process of discussion the Military history WikiProject Coordinators have begun rolling out a handful of new continental task forces for the project intended to allow us to better handle national and geographic based military history by providing, by proxy, a task force for every nation on the Earth. The introduction of the new continental task forces are intended to ensure that current nations and regions that do not have an active task force but have been active in military history may be covered by at least one dedicated regional task force, and will act to a limited extent as a safety net to ensure that any currently existing national or regional task force that ends up going defunct may be absorbed by its parent continent. Unfortunately, as is often the case with such new things, we expect a certain degree of teething trouble as we work to get these new continental task forces set up and running. Accordingly, then, if anyone notices an issue with the new task forces as it related to the Military history Project please bring it to our attention. Remember, the sooner we learn about any problems or issues with the new format, the sooner we can move to fix it.

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


 * No awards were made last month.


 * The contest department completed its 103rd round of competition last month. This was the first round of the 2016 competition and saw a fantastic level of involvement with a total of 74 articles being submitted by 11 editors. First place went to, with an incredible 113 points from 22 entries to receive the Chevrons, followed by , who earned the Writer's Barnstar with 73 points from 15 entries. Honorable mentions go to (55 points),  (50),  (46), and  (45). , , , , and  also fielded entries. Please submit any articles you are working on for this month's round of competition now. Articles contributed between now and December will count towards the 2016 Military History Writers' Contest Cup, which will be awarded in early January 2017 to the editor who accumulates the most number of points throughout the entire year.