Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/February 2018/Project news

Welcome to the second Bugle edition for 2018!

This edition features a huge collection of new A-class and featured content in the article news section. The new A-class articles include no less than four joint nominations, which may be a record for a single month. The book reviews section also includes plenty of content, assessing a book on the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, and  looking at two books on World War II.

Hawkeye7 has also contributed this month's op-ed, which discusses the divergence in the organisation and doctrine of the national components of the British Expeditionary Force during 1918. 's regular summary of this month in World War I covers dramatic Central Power gains in Russia and some important Allied advances in Palestine.

Lastly, we'd like to announce an upcoming edit-a-thon, which will take place in April. The April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive aims to target several areas including tagging and assessment, improving our task forces, and content creation. This year's drive will also see collaboration with WikiProject Women in Red to try to improve our coverage of topics related to women in the military - which is currently rather under-developed. The drive will begin on 1 April and continue through to the end of the month. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up now at the link mentioned above.

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

The Bugle is always looking for contributions from members of the Military History Wikiproject. These can cover pretty much anything relevant to the project, including reviews, op-eds and how-to guides. The Bugle's archives provide an indication of what's been covered in previous editions.

If you'd like to contribute to future editions of The Bugle, submissions can be posted directly at The Bugle's newsroom here. Alternately, if you'd prefer to draft a contribution in your user space, the editors can move it across.

The editors would be very pleased to discuss ideas for articles, or provide feedback on drafts.


 * The A-Class medal with Diamonds has been awarded to:
 * for German destroyer Z2 Georg Thiele, Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (1894), and HMS Vanguard (1909)
 * for Petropavlovsk-class battleship, German destroyer Z3 Max Schultz, and Type 1934-class destroyer


 * The A-Class medal has been awarded to:
 * Iazyges: for German destroyer Z3 Max Schultz, Type 1934-class destroyer, and German destroyer Z51


 * The contest department completed its 127th round of competition in January 2018. A total of 75 articles were submitted by 15 editors. This month, due to a scoring anomaly, there were two winners: Kges1901 (with 99 points from 16 articles) and Sturmvogel (with 98 points from 11 articles). Both Kges1901 and Sturmvogel have been awarded the Chevrons for their achievement. AustralianRupert, Catlemur, Djmaschek, Ian Rose, Iazyges, Kees08, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, Lord Ics, Parsecboy, Peacemaker67, The Bushranger, Gog the Mild and and Zawed also contributed entries. Please submit any articles you are working on for the next round of the competition now. The monthly totals cumulatively go towards the 2018 Military History Writers' Contest Cup, which will be awarded at the end of the December 2018 contest.