Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/September 2017/Project news

Welcome to the ninth edition of the Bugle for 2017!

As always, you can find the articles promoted to A-class and featured status last month in our article news section. Four of the five FAs are part of long-running series by MilHist regulars: aircraft in Australian service, Yugoslav naval vessels, German capital ships, and the campaigns of Frederick the Great. Among the new A-Class articles are three by editors who are achieving this milestone for the first time: Kees08, Iazyges, and Finnusertop -- congratulations to all three!

Meanwhile, the book review section features two recent works assessed by Hawkeye7 and Nick-D, one on Japanese anti-submarine escorts during World War II, and the other focussing on Australian participation in the Vietnam War. TomStar81 contributes his regular timeline of events this month 100 years ago in World War I, and Hawkeye7 takes over this month's op-ed to look at Australian and New Zealand forces in the Third Ypres Offensive.

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

All project members are reminded that elections to determine the project's co-ordinators will take place this month. If you are interested in nominating for a position, please nominate here. Nominations opened on 00:01 UTC, 3 September and are open until 23:59 UTC, 16 September 2017. Voting will then take place from then until 23:59 UTC, 29 September 2017. Any member of the project can nominate for a position. For those interested in learning more about the role, information can be found here.


 * The A-Class medal with Oak Leaves has been awarded to:
 * for Battle of Rossbach, Battle of Leuthen, and Army of the Rhine and Moselle


 * The contest department has completed its 122nd round of competition in August. A total of 49 articles were submitted by eight editors. Kges1901 took out the competition with 107 points from 21 articles, while came second with 59 points from seven articles. Kges has been awarded the Chevrons for their achievement, and Parsecboy has received the Writer's Barnstar. Auntieruth, AustralianRupert, Djmaschek, Iazyges, Peacemaker67, and Zawed also contributed entries. Points will go towards the 2017 Military History Writers' Contest Cup, which will be decided at the end of the December contest. Please submit any articles you are working on for the next round of the competition now.