Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/May 2014/Project news

Welcome to the May 2014 edition of the Bugle!

As always, this issue's article news section includes a wrap-up of new Featured and A-Class content; while no pictures and relatively few articles were promoted to Featured status last month, eight articles achieved A-Class. In our regular book review section, Nick-D looks at a "collective biography" of the first Australian soldiers to die at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915.

This month also sees a welcome return of our op-ed section, featuring Peacemaker67's thoughts on developing and maintaining Featured Articles involving Yugoslavia in World War II. Don't forget that the Bugle's editors are always on the look out for op-eds to run in future editions, so anyone with something to be published is warmly encouraged to post their submission at the Newsroom, or to contact Ian or Nick.

Lastly, we've recently farewelled Cdtew, who has had to retire from Wikipedia and a MilHist coordinator role owing to work commitments. We thank him for his contributions to the smooth running of the project, and for his excellent work on American Revolutionary War articles, which included several FAs.

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


 * The A-Class medal with Diamonds has been awarded to:
 * Parsecboy for España-class battleship, SMS Emden (1908), and Mackensen-class battlecruiser


 * The A-Class medal with Swords has been awarded to:
 * MisterBee1966 for List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (Hn–Hz), List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (Ha–Hm), and List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (Ka–Km)
 * MisterBee1966 for Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, and List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (Kn–Kz)
 * Sturmvogel 66 for Japanese battleship Nagato, Russian battleship Poltava (1894), and Russian battleship Peresvet


 * The contest department completed its 83rd round of competition last month. A total of 43 articles were submitted by 10 editors. Parsecboy came first with 81 points from 8 entries to receive the Chevrons, followed by Lineagegeek who earned the Writer's Barnstar with 43 points from 9 entries. Honourable mentions go to AustralianRupert (38 points), Cuprum17 (36 points) and Peacemaker67 (25 points). Ian Rose, Djmaschek, Sturmvogel 66, The Bushranger and Tomobe03 also fielded entries. Please submit any articles you are working on for this month's contest now.