Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/October 2013/Project news

Welcome to the October 2013 edition of the Bugle!

The annual election to select Military history project coordinators concluded last month. Fifteen candidates stood for election. Nine returning coordinators (Anotherclown, Dank, Hawkeye7, HJ Mitchell, Ian Rose, Nick-D, The ed17 and TomStar81) and five new coordinators (Cdtew, Cliftonian, Ed!, Peacemaker67 and Tomobe03) were elected. AustralianRupert received the highest number of votes cast, and therefore becomes Lead Coordinator. You can find the full results here. Congratulations to all those elected, and thanks to all who took the time to stand and to vote!

Among our regular departments this month, you can find all the MilHist articles, lists and pictures promoted to Featured or A-Class status last month at our articles page, while Nick-D's book review focuses on Austro-Hungarian battleships of World War I. Nick has also contributed this month's op-ed on the Featured and A-Class assessment processes, from the reviewer's perspective -- a follow-up to his earlier piece on the assessment experience from the nominator's point of view.

As always, the Bugle is keen to receive submissions in the form of news, book or other media reviews, and op-eds. You can leave draft contributions for a future issue at the newsroom, or ping the editors for feedback on ideas for articles or material in your user space.

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


 * The A-Class medal with Swords has been awarded to:
 * Ian Rose for No. 2 Operational Conversion Unit RAAF, No. 33 Squadron RAAF, and Bobby Gibbes
 * Parsecboy for SMS Pommern, List of coastal defense ships of Germany, and List of battleships of Italy
 * Sturmvogel 66 for Russian battleship Potemkin, List of sunken battlecruisers, and Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū


 * The A-Class medal with Oak Leaves has been awarded to:
 * Peacemaker67 for 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian), 24th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Karstjäger, and Yugoslav order of battle for the invasion of Yugoslavia


 * The A-Class medal has been awarded to:
 * Cdtew for Francis Nash, Jethro Sumner, and James Hogun
 * Piotrus for Stanisław Koniecpolski, Tadeusz Kościuszko, and Casimir Pulaski


 * The contest department completed its 76th round of competition last month. A total of 38 articles were submitted by nine editors. Ian Rose came first with 61 points from seven entries to receive the Chevrons, followed by Peacemaker67, who earned the Writer's Barnstar with 51 points from eight entries. Honourable mentions go to Parsecboy (42 points), Zawed (30), Cuprum17 (24) and Tomobe03 (23). Cdtew, Djmaschek and RoslynSKP also fielded entries. Please submit any articles you are working on for this month's contest now.