Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/October 2014/Articles


 * Æthelwold ætheling (Dudley Miles) : Described as "one of the 'Nearly Men' of early medieval Europe", Æthelwold unsuccessfully attempted to claim the crown of Wessex following the death of Alfred the Great in 899, but was recognised as king in other parts of the modern UK. He was killed at the Battle of the Holme in 902 or 903. Nominator Dudley Miles took the article through GAN and ACR before FAC.
 * Death on the Rock (HJ Mitchell) : This article covers a documentary on the Operation Flavius killing of IRA personnel in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988. The documentary was criticised by the British Government and tabloid media, and may have contributed to its broadcaster losing its franchise and the abolition of the British Government agency which declined a request from the Government to postpone its screening.
 * Franklin Pierce (Designate & Wehwalt) : According to co-nominator Wehwalt, Pierce was "a president almost always denigrated. Yet in his time, he was one of the bright young stars of the Democratic Party. His efforts to deal with the slavery issue won him lasting, and possibly deserved, condemnation, yet as one of Andrew Johnson's biographers once said, the issues the presidents of their times faced were so overwhelming it would have taken a succession of Lincolns to deal with them properly."
 * Henry Burrell (admiral) (Ian Rose) : This was the first naval biography that nominator Ian Rose -- better known for his air force articles -- ever wrote. He took it to GAN and ACR in 2009 but felt at the time that there was scope for further expansion, at least on the subject's later life, which he recently added before bringing it to FAC.
 * James Chadwick (Hawkeye7 and Nobeljeff) : This latest entry in Hawkeye7's series of early nuclear weapons scientists was jointly developed to A-Class and FA with Nobeljeff, and is Jeff's first military history article to reach these milestones. Its subject is a British Nobel Prize in physics recipient who was interned in Germany during World War I and worked on Britain's nuclear program and the Manhattan Project during World War II.
 * Russian battleship Pobeda (Sturmvogel_66) : Another of Sturmvogel 66's series on the Imperial Russian Navy, Pobeda was one of five Russian battleships captured during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, having been sunk by Japanese Army artillery. She subsequently served with the Imperial Japanese Navy, including during the opening months of World War I, before being scrapped in the 1920s. The article passed GAN and ACR before achieving Featured status.
 * SMS Scharnhorst (Parsecboy) : Continuing his series on German cruisers, Parsecboy hopes to see this article appearing on Wikipedia's Main Page on a major centenary—her loss at the Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914. Having created it back in 2009, Parsecboy recently expanded the article with new sources prior to nominating it at ACR and FAC.


 * List of cruisers of Germany (Parsecboy) : In Parsecboy's words, "this list covers all of the cruisers built by Germany, from the early 1880s to 1945, and spanning three navies". The article provides a comprehensive summary of the dates these ships were active and their key characteristics. Remarkably, the articles on all of these ships have been developed to GA or higher status (more on which next issue!).


 * German cruiser Prinz Eugen (Parsecboy) : This is another in Parsecboy's series of articles on German cruisers. Famous for her part in the sinking of HMS Hood, and later the "Channel Dash" with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen ended her days as a target ship in the US nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll.
 * June 1941 uprising in eastern Herzegovina (Peacemaker67) : The latest in Peacemaker67's articles on the Balkans covers one of the early actions in what became a very long-running campaign against the occupation authorities in Yugoslavia. The uprising was not successful, and led to a series of massacres.
 * Operation Goodwood (naval) (Nick-D) : The third and final in Nick's series of articles on British Fleet Air Arm attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz describes a large scale, and almost completely unsuccessful, operation in August 1944. Despite being targeted by three major raids, Tirpitz suffered only light damage and responsibility for attacking the ship was swapped to the Royal Air Force.
 * USS Mahan (DD-364) (Pendright) : Following on from his article on the Mahan-class destroyer, which he successfully took through ACR and FAC, Pendright returns with one on the lead ship of that class. Mahan was commissioned in 1936 and saw action in the Pacific War before her demise in 1944 following Japanese kamikaze attacks.