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

Welcome to the second Bugle for 2020!

To start on a very positive note, we're pleased to congratulate for recently achieving his 50th Featured Article promotion with the John Leak article passing FAC. Many of these articles cover "controversial" topics, making this a particularly noteworthy achievement. Peacemaker is the 20th most prolific featured article nominator, in a list where many of the top places are held by editors who focus on military history topics.

Turning to article news more broadly, while only five new A-class articles were promoted in January, it was a busy month for new featured articles. Two powerful images also reached featured picture status.

The regular book review section includes an assessment by Nick-D of a somewhat disappointing recent book on the Battle of Normandy, as well as the usual roundup of recent reviews published elsewhere.

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



Next month the project will be running a backlog elimination and content creation drive. This will target several areas including tagging and assessment, improving our task forces, and content creation. The drive will begin on 1 March and continue through to the end of the month. Barnstars and mentions in despatches will be awarded to participating editors. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up now.


 * The A-Class medal with Oak Leaves has been awarded to:
 * Kges1901 for Soviet destroyer Soobrazitelny (1940), 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division, and USS O'Flaherty.

The opening month of the 2020 Military History Article Writing Contest attracted nine participants. First place was taken by with an astonishing 228 points from 70 articles to take the WikiChevrons, followed by  with 47 points to receive the Writer's Barnstar. Also scoring were AustralianRupert, Chetsford, Djmaschek, Gog the Mild, Harrias, Peacemaker67 and Zawed. Congratulations and thanks to all participants.