Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/May 2022/Project news

Welcome to the fifth Bugle for 2022!

Somewhat unusually, none of the five new A-class articles in the article news section cover the world wars. Instead, they're on a very interesting and diverse range of topics: an American Civil War battle, a Carthaginian general, a major European war, a Royal Navy officer and a Brazilian military government. Of the five new featured articles, one involves World War II, the others cover medieval times and the American Civil War. The section also includes two images that were promoted to featured picture status in April, both being nominated by the prolific.

has contributed two reviews for the regular book review section. The first is on a key economic summit during World War II that played an important role in the post-war recovery and the second is on the American space program during the 1980s. The section also features a round-up of some recent reviews published elsewhere: that by Ian W. Toll of an apparently rather under-cooked work by renowned historian Paul Kennedy (the flaws include an over-reliance on Wikipedia, interestingly enough) is particularly worth reading.

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


 * The A-Class medal with Oak Leaves has been awarded to:
 * Gog the Mild: for Siege of Breteuil, Gisco (died 239 BC), and Siege of Dundee.


 * The A-Class medal has been awarded to:
 * Indy beetle: for Libyan–Egyptian War, Invasion of Kagera, and Kirk–Holden war.
 * Buidhe: for Armenian Genocide, The Holocaust in Greece, and The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia.


 * Gog the Mild had a 50th FAC and 100th GAN promotions. For the chronologically ordered lists, see here.

Congratulations to all these editors.
 * User:Hawkeye7 complete of 100 items of featured content, with 93 featured articles, three featured lists, and four featured topics, and was awarded the Marco Polo Centurion Triple Crown, becoming only the third Wikipedian to claim this honour.


 * The April article writing contest saw five editors submitted entries. Hog Farm entered six articles, which resulted in their winning the WikiChevrons, with a total of 51 points. Zawed took second place and the Writer's Barnstar with 34 points from five articles. Catlemur, Djmaschek and Gog the Mild were the others to claim points for articles improved during the month. As always, any editors working on articles at the moment should consider submitting them for the current month of the competition.