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- From the Coordinators
- This month has been interesting for MILHIST, as we reorganized a few departments. The Outreach Department has been replaced by the tabs at the top of our totally redesigned project page; thanks to Kirill for the design and Bellhalla for the logo. We also created the Academy, a hub for practical advice about creating, editing, and reviewing quality content. All project members are cordially invited to fill in some of the red links, and new ideas are always welcome.
- As you can see on the right, our A-class and featured content is growing quite rapidly; these numbers have now gone up by 45 for the second straight month! Great work! In addition, thanks go out to those who recently helped in reducing the A-class nominations backlog. Reviewers are still needed; if you feel up to it, please stop by and leave comments on an article—every review helps!
- Lastly, the contest results for the month: Bellhalla took the cake again with 77 points and gets the Chevrons, while Ian Rose gets the Writer's Barnstar for his 60 points. Other participants included Bryce (49 points), Cam (25), David Underdown (11), Kirk (5), Parsecboy (20), Piotrus (15), Rosiestep (3), the_ed17 (27), Wild Wolf (6), and YellowMonkey (35). 51 total articles were improved as part of this.
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- Articles of note
New featured articles:
- Dreadnought
- Edmund Herring
- John Whittle
- Murray Maxwell
- SS Kroonland
- United States Military Academy
- USS Connecticut (BB-18)
- William Bostock
New featured lists:
- List of Australian George Cross recipients
- List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Kriegsmarine
New featured pictures:
- 1917 surrender of Jerusalem
- WWI Canadian war bond poster (french)
- WWI Canadian war bond poster (english)
- Lexington class battlecruiser
- Battle of Ticonderoga attack plan, 1759
- Military College of Chapultepec, c. 1847
- Machine gun corps, Tell el Sheria Gaza line, 1917
- First Battle of Manassas map
- Aftermath of Wounded Knee, January 1891
- Ottoman camel corps at Beersheba, WWI
- Japanese archer with targets, 1878
New featured topics:
- Iowa class battleships
New A-Class articles:
- Battle of Sio
- Battles of the Kinarot Valley
- Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
- Clare Stevenson
- Edgar Towner
- Falaise pocket
- Frank Hubert McNamara
- Japanese battleship Musashi
- Japanese battleship Yamato
- Joe Hewitt (RAAF officer)
- Keith Miller
- Lee-Enfield
- Military career of Keith Miller
- Operation Mole Cricket 19
- Powder Alarm
- SMS Moltke (1910)
- SM U-66
- SM U-68
- Sydney Rowell
- U-5 class submarine (Austria-Hungary)
- U-20 class submarine
- USS Texas (BB-35)
- Walter Nowotny
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- Project news
- On 22 February, four military history articles—all of them on battleships—appeared on the Main Page: USS Connecticut (BB-18) was the day's featured article, Japanese battleship Haruna and Brazilian battleship Minas Gerais appeared as part of the DYK section, and French battleship Danton (1909) was one of the in the news items.
- Six articles in our scope appeared on the main page this month: Woodes Rogers (1 February), Action of 13 January 1797 (6 February), 300 (film) (13 February), Theramenes (17 February), Third Battle of Kharkov (19 February), and USS Connecticut (BB-18) (22 February).
- The main project page has been redesigned.
- Article alerts are now available both for the entire project (on the status page) and for each task force (on the task force page).
- The Military history coordinator elections, to appoint coordinators for the period April–October 2009, take place this month. If you are thinking of standing as a candidate, the schedule is as follows:
- Nomination period: 00:01 Sat 7 March - 23:59 Fri 13 March
- Voting period: 00:01 Sat 14 March - 23:59 Sat 29 March
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- Awards and honors
- Ian Rose has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Australian military history articles (including four Featured Articles, an A-Class article, and four Good Articles), his highly civil and collaborative editing, and his willingness to provide advice and assistance to other editors.
- MisterBee1966 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his contributions to seven featured lists on German military awards during the Second World War, and for contributing to four good articles and being instrumental in promoting three of them to A-Class status.
- Raul654 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his contributions to six current Military History Featured Articles, his flexibility in managing the "Today's featured article" list to accommodate relevant main-page appearances, and his generosity in providing many images for our visual library.
- The Land has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his significant contributions to the area of maritime warfare, as he has authored six of the seven articles in the "history of the battleship" series, with four of them now being featured.
- Bellhalla has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal with Oak Leaves twice for six ship articles: U-1 class submarine (Austria-Hungary), U-3 class submarine (Austria-Hungary), SM U-14 (Austria-Hungary), U-5 class submarine (Austria-Hungary), U-20 class submarine, and SM U-68.
- Abraham, B.S. has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for Percy Statton, Tom Derrick and List of Australian George Cross recipients.
- Cam has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for Operation Totalize, Japanese battleship Yamato and Japanese battleship Musashi.
- Ian Rose has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for Stanley Goble, William Bostock and Frank Hubert McNamara.
- Nudve has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for North Yemen Civil War, Battles of the Kinarot Valley, and Operation Mole Cricket 19.
- TomStar81 has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for United States Naval Gunfire Support debate, USS Iowa (BB-61) and USS Texas (BB-35).
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