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Your military history newsletter – Issue CLIX, July 2019 Front page • Project news • Article news • Book reviews

From the editors

Welcome to the seventh Bugle edition for 2019!

This issue features four book reviews by Peacemaker67, Hawkeye7 and Nick-D covering recent works on both world wars.

Last month saw the promotion of the 24-article Good Topic Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom, which represents years of dedicated work on the subject by Hawkeye7. Well done on an outstanding contribution to the encyclopaedia! Also, Bryanrutherford0, who, while not (yet) a member of the project, had his 4-article Good Topic Silesian Wars promoted in the last month as well.

These achievements were only part of what was a busy month for new featured and A-class content. The regular article news section highlights these articles and images.

The quarterly reviewing awards have also been handed out. Collectively, we conducted 500 reviews over the period April to June. The WikiChevrons were awarded to Peacemaker67, Nikkimaria, CPA-5, Gog the Mild, Sturmvogel 66, Australian Rupert and Parsecboy, with another 34 editors reviewing between one and fourteen articles. Thanks to everyone for contributing to our quality and assessment processes. Our amazing throughput is down to you.

Finally, a head's-up that voting for the XIX Coordinator Tranche will open in September. All project members are encouraged to participate either by voting for coordinators or by running for one of the open positions. The project has two academy essays that may be of use to you: becoming a coordinator and advice from former coordinators. Please feel free to ask questions of the current coordinators as well.

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

Awards and honours

• The A-Class medal has been awarded to:
  • Gog the Mild for Battle of Blanchetaque, Siege of Calais (1346–1347), and Battle of Cape Ecnomus.
  • Maury Markowitz for IFF Mark II, GL Mk. I radar, and Project Excalibur.

• The A-Class medal with Oak Leaves has been awarded to:
  • Zawed for Samuel Forsyth, William Hardham, and John Gildroy Grant.

• The A-Class medal with Diamonds has been awarded to:
  • Sturmvogel 66 for Normandie-class battleship, German torpedo boat Albatros, and Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov.

Contest department

The contest department completed its 143rd round of competition in June. A total of 63 articles were submitted by 11 editors. Sturmvogel 66 took out the competition with 111 points from 17 articles, while Australian Rupert came second with 70 points from 12 articles. Sturmvogel 66 has been awarded the Chevrons for his achievement, and Australian Rupert has received the Writer's Barnstar. PlanespotterA230, Parsecboy, Gog the Mild, Peacemaker67, Zawed, Auntieruth55, L293D, Djmaschek and TeriEmbrey also contributed entries. Points will go towards the 2019 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.

About The Bugle First published in 2006, the Bugle is the monthly newsletter of the English Wikipedia's Military history WikiProject. » About the project » Visit the Newsroom » Subscribe to the Bugle » Browse the Archives + Add a commentDiscuss this story These comments are automatically transcluded from this article's talk page. To follow comments, add the page to your watchlist. If your comment has not appeared here, you can try . Great job as always, guys! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:29, 15 July 2019 (UTC) Thanks to everyone who contributed -- especially yourself, Hawkeye and Nick to the bumper book review section! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 12:35, 15 July 2019 (UTC) Damn, 500 reviews that's a lot of reviews. Especially if you look to the Last quarterly update in April which had 428! Good work everyone. Cheers. CPA-5 (talk) 20:18, 21 July 2019 (UTC)