Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/March 2024/Project news

Welcome to the third Bugle for 2024!

In what's becoming an unfortunate trend, no articles were promoted to A-class in February. There are plenty of A-class reviews open, and members of the project are encouraged to contribute to assessing whether they meet the A-class criteria. Happily there were three new featured articles and six new featured pictures, which can be found in this issue's article news.

The book review section boasts four entries: looks at three subjects from World War II, namely US Navy carrier aircraft maintenance crews, one of Douglas MacArthur's staff officers, and George S. Patton's first 18 months of war; meanwhile,  reviews a work with the intriguing and somewhat worrying title of The Weaponisation of Everything.

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

It is with great sadness that we report the death of. Vami IV was an active member of the Military History project who served as a coordinator from 2022 to 2023. He was a major contributor to the project, writing many fine articles and contributing many reviews. His portfolio included nine featured articles (one promoted posthumously), five A-class articles, ten good articles, and two Four Awards. He summed up his philosophy of editing in essay on completionism, in which he wrote:"[W]hat is to be done is to write new content, expand and curate existing content, research, collation of research and references, reviewing and copy editing, cleanup, deorphaning, and collaboration. In a word, work. The only way Completion can and will be reached is through a Herculean amount of work. Completion will also require Completionists to be bold, but civil and patient, and to some extent charismatic. This is a collaborative project! It shall also require Completionists to be discerning and travel to many places to acquire what the Encyclopedia needs. But most of all, it must be repeated, it shall require us to work."

Condolence messages can be left on his talk page. If you can, join us in honouring his memory by improving one of the articles on his unfinished to-do list.

There were no awards last month.

The February edition of the contest department's article writing contest saw take the top spot in the contest with 27 points from 3 articles, started at or brought to GA class. He claims the Wikichevrons as his prize. finished second in the February contest with 21 points from 2 articles brought to GA class and was awarded the Writer's Barnstar. Other entries in February were submitted by Djmaschek and Zawed. Monthly totals are applied to the overall 2024 writer's cup, which will be decided at the end of December.

The March edition of the contest is now open. Please consider submitting your current article projects as entries into this friendly competition.