Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/Newsletter June 2008

Project news

• With the holiday season upon us, we're very short of reviewers at A-Class Reviews and are likely to remain so for the next month or so. If just five new reviewers each reviewed one article a week, the problem would be solved! To keep track of Milhist articles for peer and A-Class reviews, simply paste the code – {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} – onto your talk page.
• Similarly, copy-editors are currently in short supply. If you can help out at the Copy-editing section of the Logistics Dept, it would be much appreciated. If you can help with A-Class Reviews and Featured Article Candidates so much the better! To keep up to date with Milhist articles needing copy input, just paste – {{WPMILHIST Copy-editing alerts}} onto your talk page.
• The debate on whether Milhist should adopt the new C-Class has been closed, with a strong and clear consensus against adopting. The archived discussion is here.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. Battle of Lissa (1811)
2. Battle of Verrières Ridge
3. Benjamin Franklin Tilley
4. Brian Horrocks
5. Lince (tank)
6. Montana class battleship
7. Saint-Sylvestre coup d’état
8. Verdeja (tank)
9. Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang

New featured lists:

1. List of Crimean War Victoria Cross recipients‎
2. List of German World War II jet aces (promoted in May)

New A-Class articles:

1. Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse
2. Battle of Strasbourg
3. Operation Brevity
4. Operation Tractable
5. Operation Varsity
6. Roman-Persian Wars
7. SS Kroonland

Current proposals and discussions

• The Milhist review structure is itself being reviewed. The idea is to see how it can be improved, or whether it needs changing or updating.
• The month-long trial of partner peer reviews with Video games is being discussed. All feedback welcome!

Awards and honors

• Congratulations to Buckshot06, who has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his consistently excellent edits and his continued commitment and tireless efforts towards improving the quality of articles pertaining to military history.
• Congratulations to Piotrus, who has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Polish military history, including the creation of numerous Featured Articles, A-Class articles, and Good Articles on the subject.
• Reviewers: Many thanks go to Kirill, TomStar81, Eurocopter tigre, Nick Dowling, Ryan4314, Woody, Wandalstouring, Jon Catalán, Kyriakos, Maralia and Oberiko for their work on A-Class Reviews and Peer Reviews, during the quarter March-May 2008. They have all been awarded the Content Review Medals.
• The Contest department has completed its fifteenth month of competition, which saw 15 entries. The top scorer this month is JonCatalan with 32 points, followed by Cam with 20 points. Ed!, David Underdown, CyclonicWhirlwind, and Blnguyen also fielded entries. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 193 points in total. The Chevrons go to JonCatalan and Cam gets the Writer's Barnstar. The May 2008 winners, Cam and Redmarkviolinist have been belatedly awarded the Chevrons and Writer's Barnstar for coming first and second respectively. You are encouraged to submit any articles you are working on as entries.
• Tag & Assess '08 has now closed, with approximately 10,000 articles successfully tagged. Many thanks to all those who participated. The top three scorers were Jim Sweeney (Gold Wiki), Dashiellx (Silver Wiki) and Ejosse1 (Bronze Wiki).

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