Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/October 2021/Project news

Welcome to the tenth Bugle for 2021!

The elections for the XXI project coordinator tranche concluded at the end of September, resulting in all ten candidates being elected. was re-elected lead coordinator for the fourth time, and Gog the Mild, Hawkeye7, Hog Farm, Indy beetle, Parsecboy and Zawed were also re-elected. Previous team members CPA-5 and Iazyges returned after absences, and Vami_IV joins the coordinator team for the first time -- welcome! Thanks to retiring coordinators, and  for their efforts in the past year(s), and thanks to all who voted to help keep the project wheels moving. Finally, was unanimously elected Coordinator Emeritus in recognition of his long-standing contributions to the project, joining Kirill Lokshin (2008), Roger Davies (2009), TomStar81 (2018) and Ian Rose (2020). Congratulations Nick on this richly deserved accolade demonstrating the high regard in which you are held by the project.

The quarterly reviewing awards for July to September have been handed out, with a total of 182 FA, FL, A-Class, GA and peer reviews conducted by 19 editors in the last quarter. These numbers are an improvement on last quarter, but still down on 2020, where the lowest quarter had over 230 reviews. Top of the list was with 25 reviews,  (20),  (20) and   (16) also receiving the WikiChevrons. Thanks to all who reviewed, you made a significant contribution to the throughput of quality content by this Project.

The regular article news section highlights September's new A-class and featured content. Highlights include two new A-class articles articles on 'big' topics: the Nuclear weapons of the United Kingdom and List of British mobile brigades during the Second World War. While getting any article to A-class is an achievement, it can be particularly challenging for articles on complex topics that are covered by a big literature.

Turning to the other regular section, Nick-D has reviewed two books this month. One is a social history of British conscription after World War II, and the other is a more conventional history of the operations by German warships in the North Atlantic during World War II. The section also features a large number of recent external reviews which might come in handy given that Christmas is rapidly approaching!

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


 * The A-Class medal with Oak Leaves has been awarded to:
 * Hog Farm for Capture of Sedalia, Second Battle of Independence, and Grant's Canal..


 * The A-Class cross with Oak Leaves has been awarded to:
 * Hawkeye7 for Shuttle-Centaur, Operation Pluto, Broad front versus narrow front controversy in World War II, Allied logistics in the Southern France campaign, and Nuclear weapons of the United Kingdom..

In September's round of the article improvement contest, was again the winner, taking first place 66 points from nine entries for the Wikichevrons. placed second with 50 points from six articles to take the Writer's Barnstar. Catlemur, Djmaschek, Tomobe03, and Zawed also submitted entries. Please consider submitting the articles you work on for entry into the current edition of the contest.