Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/February 2020/Project news
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{{WPMILHIST Newsletter section header 2|From the editors}}
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Welcome to the second Bugle for 2020!
To start on a very positive note, we're pleased to congratulate {{u|Peacemaker67}} for recently achieving his 50th Featured Article promotion with the John Leak article passing FAC. Many of these articles cover "controversial" topics, making this a particularly noteworthy achievement. Peacemaker is the 20th most prolific featured article nominator, in a list where many of the top places are held by editors who focus on military history topics.
Turning to article news more broadly, while only five new A-class articles were promoted in January, it was a busy month for new featured articles. Two powerful images also reached featured picture status.
The regular book review section includes an assessment by Nick-D of a somewhat disappointing recent book on the Battle of Normandy, as well as the usual roundup of recent reviews published elsewhere.
Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk)
{{WPMILHIST Newsletter section header 2|March Madness backlog elimination and content creation drive}}
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Next month the project will be running a backlog elimination and content creation drive. This will target several areas including tagging and assessment, improving our task forces, and content creation. The drive will begin on 1 March and continue through to the end of the month. Barnstars and mentions in despatches will be awarded to participating editors. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up now.
{{WPMILHIST Newsletter section header 2|Awards and honours}}
- The A-Class medal with Oak Leaves has been awarded to:
- Kges1901 for Soviet destroyer Soobrazitelny (1940), 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division, and USS O'Flaherty.
{{WPMILHIST Newsletter section header 2|Contest department}}
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The opening month of the 2020 Military History Article Writing Contest attracted nine participants. First place was taken by {{u|Sturmvogel 66}} with an astonishing 228 points from 70 articles to take the WikiChevrons, followed by {{u|Parsecboy}} with 47 points to receive the Writer's Barnstar. Also scoring were AustralianRupert, Chetsford, Djmaschek, Gog the Mild, Harrias, Peacemaker67 and Zawed. Congratulations and thanks to all participants.
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