Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/January 2021/Project news

Welcome to the first Bugle for 2021!

The final crop of featured and A-class articles from 2020 is a good illustration of MilHist's breadth. Among the FAs alone we find a memorial, an astronaut, a military division, battles from the English Civil War in the 17th century and the Bosnian War from 1995, and a prophetic speech by Adolf Hitler. You can find all these and more in the article news section. The book review section includes a new entry by, as well as the usual round up of military history book reviews published elsewhere. Hawkeye also contributes this month's op-ed, drawing an interesting parallel between military strategy in World War II and a famous training scenario in Star Trek.

In milestone news, was awarded the A-Class Cross with Oak Leaves in December. This is the first time this award has been presented. Well done! PB also moved into fifth place for total featured article nominations across the whole of English Wikipedia with 85 successful nominations, all of which are still FAs. Very impressive! A few stalwart Good Article reviewers also reached milestones recently with passing 850(!) reviews, Hawkeye7 now over 300,  surpassing 250, and  recently streaking past 125 reviews. Thanks for all your work assessing other's work and keeping our quality content machinery running smoothly!

The October to December quarterly reviewing results are in, with a total of 317 reviews completed. Hog Farm topped the list with 56 reviews, and, , , Sturmvogel 66, , Zawed, and  also received the WikiChevrons for more than 14 reviews. Another 16 reviewers chipped in, and thanks to everyone for their efforts, you are critical to the quality throughput of the project.

Welcome to the ten new members who joined the project in September:, , , , , , , , , and. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history.

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

The Military Historian of the Year awards have been distributed, with the Golden Wiki going to Peacemaker67, the Silver Wiki to Gog the Mild and the Bronze Wiki to Hawkeye7 and Buidhe. The Military History Newcomer of the Year awards have also been handed out, with Hog Farm receiving the Golden Wiki and and  receiving the WikiProject Barnstar. Congratulations to all members of the project on another successful year, and best wishes for 2021!

While we have no formal annual awards for reviewing, a total of 1,177 reviews were done in 2020, and at the top of the table were Peacemaker67 (160 reviews), Gog the Mild (128 reviews) and Buidhe (123 reviews), all of whom have received the Premium Reviewer Barnstar for their efforts. Thanks to all who reviewed project articles during 2020, you make an important contribution to our amazing throughput of quality articles and lists!


 * The A-Class cross with Oak Leaves has been awarded to:
 * Parsecboy for Spanish battleship Alfonso XIII, Tennessee-class battleship, List of avisos of Germany, Spanish battleship España, and SMS Undine..

The annual Military History Article Writing Contest which ran throughout 2020 was won by Sturmvogel 66 (again) with 1,193 points gained by upgrading a total of 231 articles. Well done! Parsecboy placed second with 773 points from 88 articles.

The December 2020 Military History Article Writing Contest had 11 editors submitting entries. First place was taken by Sturmvogel 66 with 93 points from 10 articles. They were awarded the WikiChevrons. Second was Zawed, with 42 points from 6 articles, and who was awarded the Writer's Barnstar. Also scoring were Catlemur, Djmaschek, Gog the Mild, Hog Farm, Lineagegeek, Parsecboy, Peacemaker67, The Bushranger and Tomobe03. Congratulations and thanks to all participants.