Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators

Welcome to the discussion area of the Military history WikiProject's coordination department! This page is mostly used by the project coordinators, but everyone is welcome to participate! If you have a question, concern, or suggestion for the coordinators, please feel free to leave us a note!

Handbook

Please see the Academy course for coordinators for general information and advice.

Coordinator tasks

These tasks should be done as often as needed—ideally, on a daily basis.

Assessment

• Monitor the daily assessment log. The main things to look for:
  • Articles being removed. This is usually legitimate (due to merges or non-military articles getting untagged), but is sometimes due to vandalism or broken template code.
  • Articles being moved to "GA-Class" and higher quality. These ratings need to correspond to the article's status in the GA and FA lists or the A-Class project review.
• Deal with any new assessment requests and the backlog of unassessed articles.

A-Class review

• For each ongoing A-Class review:
  1. Determine whether the review needs to be closed and archived, per the criteria here.
  2. If a review has been open for a month without at least three editors commenting, leave a reminder note on the main project talk page, using the following boilerplate: {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/Toolbox/A-Class review alert|Name of article}} ~~~~
• If an article has been put up for A-Class review in the past and you receive a request for assistance per WP:MHR for a fresh review, move the existing A-Class review page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Article title/archive1 (increasing the number if there has been more than one review) without leaving a redirect. You will also need to adjust the article assessment history to reflect the new target page for the old review. This will make way for the normal A-Class review initiation process, so advise the nominator to initiate per the instructions.

Quarterly Reviewing Awards

Quarterly Reviewing Awards - manual process

At the end of each quarter, all editors that complete at least one A-Class review receive a Milhist reviewing award. Create a new thread on the Coordinators' talk page and paste the following boilerplate into the body, leaving the subject line empty:{{subst:MILHIST Quarterly Reviewing Table}}. Save the thread, reopen it and change the months and year in the subject line and table, add a comment under the table, sign and save the thread again. Then tally the qualifying reviews: Tally A-Class Reviews. As only those editors who complete at least one Milhist A-Class review receive an award, start by tallying them. Go to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/201X]] (inserting the correct year) and click on the links to check all the A-Class articles that were promoted, failed, kept or demoted in the relevant quarter. Tally the number of articles reviewed by each editor. One suggested method is to use a simple pen-and-paper tally of usernames as you scroll through the relevant archive; another is to save the relevant reviews into a word processor and delete all content except the usernames of the reviewers, then tally from there. Regardless of which method is chosen, it can be time consuming so you may need to do it over several sessions. Once done, add each editor who completed an A-Class review to the User column of the Quarterly Reviewing Table, and add one point to the ACR column for each article that editor reviewed. Tally Good Article Reviews. Methods are to go to Wikipedia:Good articles/Warfare revision history for the quarter and tally the articles added by each editor listed in the Quarterly Reviewing Table or to use the Pages Created tool to isolate GA nomination pages created by a specific user. Add one point to the GA column for each MilHist article that those editors reviewed. Note that the accuracy of this method relies upon reviewers listing GAs per instructions. Tally Peer Reviews. Go to Wikipedia:Peer review/Archive and click on the links to open the archive pages for the relevant quarter. Check the talk page of each article to determine whether it falls under MilHist. For each article that does, check whether it was reviewed by an editor listed in the Quarterly Reviewing Table. If so, add one point to the PR column for each MilHist article that editor reviewed. Tally Featured Article Reviews. Go to Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Featured_log and Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Archived_nominations, and click on the links to open the archive of review pages for the relevant quarter. Check the talk page of each article to determine whether it falls under MilHist. For each article that does, check whether it was reviewed by an editor listed in the Quarterly Reviewing Table. If so, add one point to the FAC column for each MilHist article that editor reviewed. Tally the total number of points for each editor and add them to the Total column of the Quarterly Reviewing Table. Award all reviewers in accordance with the following schedule (the award templates are all available under "Military history awards" below): 15+ points – the WikiChevrons 8–14 points – the Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) 4–7 points – the Milhist reviewing award (2 stripes) 1-3 points – the Milhist reviewing award (1 stripe) Sign the Awarded column of the Quarterly Reviewing Table for each editor to signify that the award has been presented.

Quarterly reviewing awards are posted on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Awards page by the MilHistBot. As with other awards, change the status from "nominated" to "approved" to approve the award.

Member affairs

• Invite editors to join the project, using the following boilerplate:{{subst:Wikipedia:MILHIST/MILHIST Invitation|signed=~~~~}}
• Welcome anybody who joins the project, using the following boilerplate: {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/Toolbox/Welcome|~~~~}}

Miscellaneous

• Vote on any open proposals to award the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves and approve any A-Class medal or A-Class cross nominations.
• Update the monthly newsletter with new developments within the project.
• Verify entries in the monthly article writing contest, hand out prizes, and update the monthly scoreboard and the newsletter accordingly.
• Fix the {{WPMILHIST}} invocation syntax on any articles in Category:Military history articles needing attention to tagging.

How to...

Create a new task force

N.B.: Creating a task force involves a great deal of work, and is very time-consuming to reverse if an inappropriate or misnamed group is created. It is generally inadvisable to create task forces without prior discussion—particularly regarding the name and scope—on the project's main talk page. Before a task force can be created, it is necessary to decide on a name for it. The process requires both a full name (e.g. "French military history" or "American Civil War") and a one- or two-word or acronym shorthand used for some template parameters (e.g. "French" or "ACW"). The instructions below use the "Fooish military history" task force (shortened to "Fooish") as an example; when creating an actual task force, remember to substitute the correct name, rather than actually creating the example pages. Create the task force page: Create the main task force page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Fooish military history task force) with {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/Toolbox/Task force boilerplate|Fooish military history|Fooish}} as the content. Fill in descriptions of the task force scope where indicated on the new task force page. Add support for the task force to {{WPMILHIST}}: Select an image to use as the task force icon. The image should be recognizable at a small size and reasonably representative of the topic of the task force. Add the task force display code to the task force section of {{WPMILHIST}}, in correct position among the task force parameters, by copying one of the existing task force blocks and replacing the task force name and image where needed. If the name of the task force does not begin with a capitalized term—in other words, where the name would be lowercase if it were not a page title (e.g. "military aviation" or "maritime warfare")—an altname= parameter containing the lowercased version of the name must be passed to {{WPMILHIST/Task force categories}}. Add {{{Fooish-task-force|}}}{{{Fooish|}}} to the appropriate conditional statements in the template. Update the project banner instructions: Add "|Fooish=" to the example syntax, in correct position among the task force parameters. Add "* '''Fooish-task-force''' (or '''Fooish''') – "''yes''" if the article is supported by the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Fooish military history task force|Fooish military history task force]]." to the instructions, in correct position among the task force parameters. Set up the task force assessment infrastructure: Create the main task force category (Category:Fooish military history task force articles) with {{WPMILHIST Task force category|Fooish military history}} as the content. Create the main task force assessment category (Category:Fooish military history articles by quality) with {{WPMILHIST Task force assessment category|Fooish military history}} as the content. Create the assessment level sub-categories: Category:FA-Class Fooish military history articles with {{WPMILHIST Task force assessment level category|Fooish military history|FA}} as the content. Category:FL-Class Fooish military history articles with {{WPMILHIST Task force assessment level category|Fooish military history|FL}} as the content. Category:A-Class Fooish military history articles with {{WPMILHIST Task force assessment level category|Fooish military history|A}} as the content. Category:GA-Class Fooish military history articles with {{WPMILHIST Task force assessment level category|Fooish military history|GA}} as the content. Category:B-Class Fooish military history articles with {{WPMILHIST Task force assessment level category|Fooish military history|B}} as the content. Category:C-Class Fooish military history articles with {{WPMILHIST Task force assessment level category|Fooish military history|C}} as the content. Category:Start-Class Fooish military history articles with {{WPMILHIST Task force assessment level category|Fooish military history|Start}} as the content. Category:Stub-Class Fooish military history articles with {{WPMILHIST Task force assessment level category|Fooish military history|Stub}} as the content. Create the main task force checklist category (Category:Fooish military history articles needing attention) with {{WPMILHIST Task force checklist category|Fooish military history}} as the content. Create the checklist item sub-categories: Category:Fooish military history articles needing attention to referencing and citation with {{WPMILHIST Task force checklist item category|Fooish military history|1}} as the content. Category:Fooish military history articles needing attention to coverage and accuracy with {{WPMILHIST Task force checklist item category|Fooish military history|2}} as the content. Category:Fooish military history articles needing attention to structure with {{WPMILHIST Task force checklist item category|Fooish military history|3}} as the content. Category:Fooish military history articles needing attention to grammar with {{WPMILHIST Task force checklist item category|Fooish military history|4}} as the content. Category:Fooish military history articles needing attention to supporting materials with {{WPMILHIST Task force checklist item category|Fooish military history|5}} as the content. Add the task force's statistics table ({{WPMILHIST Task force assessment|Fooish military history}}) to the task force statistics table in the assessment department. Set up the task force's open tasks listing: Create the task force's open task template ({{WPMILHIST Announcements/Fooish military history}}) using the syntax shown on {{WPMILHIST Announcements/Task force}} as the content. At a minimum, the name= parameter must be set to "Fooish military history"; optionally, some initial tasks should be located and added to the listing. Set up the task force's userboxes: Create the task force userbox (Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Members/User WPMILHIST Fooish military history task force) with the following content, using the same image as was used in {{WPMILHIST}} above: <div style="float: left; border:solid #C0C090 1px; margin: 1px;"> {| cellspacing="0" style="width: 238px; background: #F8EABA;" |- | style="width: 45px; height: 45px; background: wheat; text-align: center; font-size: 14pt; color: black;" | [[Image:Fooish_image.png|45x45px]] | style="font-size: 8pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color: #000000;" | This user is part of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Fooish military history task force|'''Fooish military history task force''']]. |}</div> Add the following to the userbox listing at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Members/Banners, in proper order among the other task force userboxes: |- | <tt><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Members/User WPMILHIST Fooish military history task force]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki></tt> | {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Members/User WPMILHIST Fooish military history task force}} Add the task force to the project's navigation system: Add a link to the task force to the main listing at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history (the task force listing is in a drop-down box at the bottom of the page). Add a link to the task force to the appropriate task force section of {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Navigation}}; the stripe colors may need adjusting to maintain the alternating-stripe pattern.

Boilerplate and templates

Public boilerplate notices

{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/Toolbox/A-Class review alert|Name of article}} ~~~~ {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/Toolbox/A-Class review notice|Name of article}} ~~~~ {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/Toolbox/FAC notice|Name of article}} ~~~~ {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/Toolbox/Peer review notice|Name of article}} ~~~~ {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/Toolbox/Welcome|~~~~}}

Military history awards

{{subst:WPMILHIST A-Class medal|[CITATION per nomination] ~~~~}} {{subst:WPMILHIST A-Class medal (Oakleaves)|[CITATION per nomination] ~~~~}} {{subst:WPMILHIST A-Class medal (Swords)|[CITATION per nomination] ~~~~}} {{subst:WPMILHIST A-Class medal (Diamonds)|[CITATION per nomination] ~~~~}} {{subst:WPMILHIST Service 1 stripe|[TEXT] ~~~~}} {{subst:WPMILHIST Service 2 stripes|[TEXT] ~~~~}} {{subst:WPMILHIST Service 3 stripes|[TEXT] ~~~~}} {{subst:WPMILHIST Service (review) 1 stripe|[TEXT] ~~~~}} {{subst:WPMILHIST Service (review) 2 stripes|[TEXT] ~~~~}} {{subst:WPMILHIST Service (review) 3 stripes|[TEXT] ~~~~}} {{subst:WPMILHIST Service (review) Content Review Medal of Merit|[TEXT] ~~~~}} {{subst:The Writer's Barnstar|[TEXT] ~~~~|2=alt}} {{subst:WPMILHIST WikiChevrons|[TEXT] ~~~~}} {{subst:WPMILHIST WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves|[CITATION per nomination] ~~~~}}

Coordinator userboxes
Lead Coordinator: {{WPMILHIST Lead}} This user is the lead coordinator of the Military history WikiProject. Coordinator: {{WPMILHIST Coordinator}} This user is a coordinator of the Military history WikiProject. Coordinator Emeritus: {{WPMILHIST Emeritus}} This user is a coordinator emeritus of the Military history WikiProject.

Open tasks

Topics for future discussion

• Collaboration with galleries, libraries, archives, museums, universities, and various other institutions (e.g. Wikipedia:GLAM/NMM)
• Article improvement drives
• Notability guideline for battles
• Naming convention guideline for foreign military ranks
• Using the "Results" field in infoboxes
• How far milhist's scope should include 'military fiction' (possible solution, see scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Military fiction task force)
• Encouraging member participation in the various review processes (peer, GAN, ACR etc)
• Recruiting new members (see User:The ed17/MILHIST, etc.)
• Improving/maintaining popular pages
• Motivating improvement from Stub to B-Class
• Enabling editors to improve articles beyond B-Class (possibly utilising logistics dept, also see WP:FAT for related ideas)
• Helping new members (possibly involving improving/deprecating welcome template; writing Academy course)
• Recruiting copy-editors to help during ACR
• Recruiting editors from external forums/groups/etc.
• Simplifying ACR instructions (old discussion)

Missing academy articles

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy/Using different reference formats (partially written/needs expansion)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy/Image restoration (partially written)
• Using supporting materials (possibly not needed/covered by other topics)
• Image quality and accuracy (possibly not needed/covered by other topics)

Open award nominations

Nominations for awards are made and voted on by coordinators at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history/Awards. An A-Class Medal nomination needs at least two coordinators' votes to succeed, and the Chevrons with Oak Leaves a majority of coordinators' votes. All coordinators are requested to review the following:

ACRs for closure

All A-Class reviews are eligible for closure 28 days after they were opened, or 5 days if there is a clear consensus for either promotion or non-promotion, by any uninvolved coordinator. The closing coordinator should check the review page carefully to ensure that there are three general supports and supports (or passes) for both the image and the source reviews, and that there are no outstanding points to be addressed. A guide to manually closing A-Class reviews is available, but normally the closing coordinator just needs to change A-Class=current in the {{WPMILHIST}} banner to A-Class=pass or A-Class=fail.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Berea Ready to go. Cheers. CPA-5 (talk) 12:41, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

• Done. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:29, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Republic F-84 Thunderjet I think it's time to close it after 9 months. Cheers. CPA-5 (talk) 20:11, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

MILHIST CCI cases

The following open CCI cases contain MILHIST articles (some usernames are omitted from the case titles because they are real names):

1. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Dawkeye
2. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20130819
3. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Degen Earthfast
4. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/America789
5. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Buster40004
6. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/$1LENCE D00600D
7. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Kprtqrf06
8. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Mztourist
9. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20190125
10. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210418
11. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Bluecountrymutt
12. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/DaWulf2013
13. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Hary1mo
14. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/DeltaSquad833

Assistance with these cases is requested, but the work is tedious. –♠Vami_IV†♠ 20:25, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

I've been working on #9 above, and it is a very messy ACW one. Hog Farm _Talk 20:45, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Updates

An eleventh case has opened: Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/DaWulf2013. –♠Vami_IV†♠ 21:53, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

And another one: Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Hary1mo. Involves a bunch of commons images, so any help from those who speak licensing or Commons would be appreciated. Hog Farm _Talk 18:58, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Discussion

ACR to-do list for January

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Erwin Böhme needs two more general reviews.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/M8 Armored Gun System needs one general review.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Miles Dempsey needs two more general reviews and a source review.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/9th Missouri Sharpshooter Battalion needs the works.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Long Tan has two, arguably three, opposes. Needs work. (IMHO)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Berea needs one general review and a source review.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Hanford Engineer Works has just the one oppose so far.

That's everything that is more than a month old, although there are also five more recent nominations. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:10, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

AutoCheck report for January

The following articles were rated as B class by automatic assessment:

• 1st Texas Field Battery B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:31, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
• 2022 Ramstein Air Base meeting B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:31, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
• 2022 Southern Yemen offensive B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:31, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
• 2023 Rajouri attacks B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:31, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
• 63rd Infantry Regiment "Cagliari" B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:22, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
• 68th Infantry Regiment "Legnano" B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:22, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
• 72nd Infantry Regiment "Puglie" B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:22, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
• 73rd Infantry Regiment "Lombardia" B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:22, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
• 75th Infantry Regiment "Napoli" B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:22, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
• 76th Infantry Regiment "Napoli" B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:22, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
• Airbus Zephyr
• Algerian frigate El Moudamir Reassessed as start, due to insufficient lead. Zawed (talk) 01:23, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
• Algerian frigate Erradii As above. Zawed (talk) 01:26, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
• Antônio Carlos de Mariz e Barros
• BAE Systems Demon B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:46, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
• Battle of Matejče Start, bad grammar, bare refs, contradicts another article.--Catlemur (talk) 17:08, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
• Battle of Pago B3 = no, lead is too short. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:47, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

  @Gog the Mild: Is there a minimum length for the lead? I can have the Bot check it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:57, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

  Hi Hawkeye7. It can get a bit subjective, but I believe that there is consensus that a single sentence is always too short. And we get quite a few of those. So if the bot could be told that articles with just the one sentence in the lead automatically fail B3 it would cut down on the work load. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:02, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

• Sure. I will tell it to do that. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:13, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

• Battle of Ugentana (1536) B2, B3 = no. Single sentence lead, limited information. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:34, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
• Battle of Winwick B-class and presently a GA nom. Zawed (talk) 00:16, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
• Bell V-247 Vigilant
• Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict
• Brazilian cruiser Benjamin Constant
• Brazilian ironclad Mariz e Barros
• Brazilian monitor Javary (1874)
• Chachro Raid
• Consolidated PBY Catalina in New Zealand service B-class, one of mine that I put through Requests for Assessment. Zawed (talk) 00:15, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
• DRDO Ghatak
• Edward B. Barry B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 00:19, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
• Einar Westerberg B3 = no, lead is too brief. Gog the Mild (talk) 00:19, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
• Francisco Copons y Navia start class, B1, B2, not met. Zawed (talk) 08:35, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
• François de Montmorency B-class. Zawed (talk) 08:35, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
• Gerald Marescaux B-class. Zawed (talk) 08:40, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
• Herman Sarens Soediro B-class. Zawed (talk) 08:40, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
• HMS Boyne (1766) B-class. Zawed (talk) 08:40, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
• HMS Myngs (1914) B-class and presently a GA nom. Zawed (talk) 00:15, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
• HNLMS Hoofdinspecteur Zeeman
• HNLMS Pollux (1922)
• HNLMS Rigel (1931)
• I Dewa Gde Oka
• Imbert de La Platière
• Jacques de Lévis
• James B. Cress
• Jan Enquist C-class, no ref for his full name.--Catlemur (talk) 04:32, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
• John Marlow Thompson B-class, an article I improved and put through Requests for Assessment. Zawed (talk) 00:15, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
• Júlio Cesar de Arruda
• Leonard Parrington
• Les Cayes massacre B class.--Catlemur (talk) 02:31, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
• List of Royal Navy flag officers who died during the First World War B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:09, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
• Margaret Isobel Cooper B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:09, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
• Michael C. Manazir B3 = no, lead is too short. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:09, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
• Operation Mount Hope III B3 = no, lead is too short. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:45, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
• Patrick Dunn (Indian Army general)
• Paul Kruger B class.--Catlemur (talk) 22:16, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
• Pedro Gálvez Egúsquiza
• René de Villequier
• Russian frigate Dzerzhinskiy C class, issues with grammar.--Catlemur (talk) 02:31, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
• Russian frigate Oryol (1985) C class, issues with grammar.--Catlemur (talk) 02:31, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
• Russian frigate Vorovskiy C class, issues with grammar.--Catlemur (talk) 02:31, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
• Sacking by Russian forces during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Sefer Reis B3 = no, lead is too short. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:45, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
• Siege of La Rochelle (1224) B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:45, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
• Snellius-class hydrographic survey vessel (1950)
• Solihin G. P.
• Thakur Mahadeo Singh Fails B2; C class. -Indy beetle (talk) 05:36, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
• Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (France)

• C class, with regret. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:19, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

• Torre del Catalán B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:43, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
• Use of cluster bombs in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Walrus-class submarine (1953)
• Warren Richard Colvin Wynne
• Weiss Manfréd WM-23 Ezüst Nyíl B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:39, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
• Yogie Suardi Memet

MilHistBot (talk) 00:10, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

January Article Writing Contest

I have done the write up for The Bugle and dished out the Writer's Barnstar for the runner-up, will someone do the honours for the ahem, winner? Thanks, Zawed (talk) 03:59, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Done. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:41, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Our banner template

Our project banner template ({{WikiProject Military history}}) is now one of only two project banners that have not been migrated to use {{WPBannerMeta}}. That's probably because it is one of the oldest, dating back to 2005, and one of the most complicated. DFlhb (talk · contribs) has been working on producing a version that uses WPBannerMeta. This is incomplete, but has progressed quite well. You can read the discussion at Template talk:WikiProject Military history and the WPBannerMeta version is available at {{WikiProject_Military history/sandbox}}. The idea is to make it completely compatible with the existing template, so the switch over will not be noticeable. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:49, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

AutoCheck report for February

The following articles were rated as B class by automatic assessment:

• 1/1st Montgomeryshire Yeomanry Looks good. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:41, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
• 1/1st Pembroke Yeomanry Looks good. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:41, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
• 2022 Joe Biden speech in Warsaw B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:23, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
• Alec Sutherland Confirmed as B-class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:23, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
• Army and Navy Union of the United States of America B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:29, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
• Ashley Truluck Seems okay. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:23, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
• Balwan Singh B3 = no, lead is too short, B2 = no, insufficient detail. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:25, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
• Battle of Cerro Corá B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:46, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
• Battle of Jieznas Seems okay. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:23, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
• Battle of Moshchun B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 15:42, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
• Battle of Nicopolis (1798) Confirmed as B-class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:23, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
• Battle of Seray Mountain B3 = no, lead too short. Gog the Mild (talk) 15:42, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
• Battle of Slupčane B3 = no, lead too short. Gog the Mild (talk) 15:43, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
• Claude de La Châtre Confirmed as B-class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:23, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
• Eduard Isken Seems okay. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:23, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
• Ernest Emerson Confirmed as B-class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:03, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
• Federico Amoroso Start.--Catlemur (talk) 03:23, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
• First Battle of Tikrit B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 15:45, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
• François de La Baume Confirmed as B-class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:23, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
• Gallipoli (miniseries) B class. (Just.) Gog the Mild (talk) 19:27, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
• Guy d'Arces Confirmed as B-class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:23, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
• Harlan Page Davidson Confirmed as B-class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:03, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
• Henri de Saint-Sulpice Confirmed as B-class.
• Henri Hekking Confirmed as B-class.
• HMS Staunch (1910) Confirmed as B-class. Zawed (talk) 10:00, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
• How America Gets Away With Murder Confirmed as B-class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:23, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
• Hubert Conway Rees Confirmed as B-class.
• Igor Mangushev Confirmed as B-class.
• Interceptor ASV B2 = no, article too brief. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:48, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
• Joe Biden classified documents incident Not sure this article is in scope. Second opinion sought. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:03, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

It's not. I've removed the tag. Gog the Mild (talk) 23:14, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

• Joginder Singh Gharaya B3 = no, lead is too short, B2 = no, too many quotes. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:50, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
• John Cock (RAF officer) Was already manually assessed. Zawed (talk) 09:58, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
• John Colin De Silva B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:50, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
• Justin Boyes Seeking second opinion on whether this guy is notable; I have my doubts. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:30, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

  I don't think he is, but I'm not sure what we can do about it. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:13, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

  Nominated for deletion. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:47, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

• List of Portuguese battles east of the Cape of Good Hope Now inadequately referenced. Stricken. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:03, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
• Louis de Maugiron Confirmed as B-class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:03, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
• Lucius Ferdinand Hardyman B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:47, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
• McLean House (Appomattox, Virginia) Confirmed as B-class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:03, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
• Meteor III Confirmed as B-class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:03, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
• Mount Macedon Memorial Cross B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:10, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
• National League of POW/MIA Families B class. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:10, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
• Nazran uprising Start, poor grammar and it mainly cites 19th century sources.--Catlemur (talk) 03:35, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
• Neve Yaakov Israeli settlement, out of our scope.--Catlemur (talk) 03:23, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
• Operation Burnham B.--Catlemur (talk) 03:23, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
• Paul de Stuer B class. -Indy beetle (talk) 20:47, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
• Public Forces (Brazil) Confirmed as B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:47, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
• Robert Barton (RAF officer) Was already manually assessed. Zawed (talk) 09:58, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
• Robert M. Montague, Jr. - Start. Name and burial place unreferenced, also uses the term "mentally retarded".--Catlemur (talk) 03:48, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
• Salundik Gohong B3 = no, lead is too short. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:10, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
• Serbian Peabody rifle B4 = no. Gog the Mild (talk) 23:11, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
• Shachi-class offshore patrol vessel B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:47, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
• SMS S19 (1912) Confirmed as B-class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:03, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
• SMS S20 (1912) Confirmed as B-class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:03, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
• Spanish patrol boat Atalaya B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:47, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
• Sullivan Amory Meredith Fails B1 and B2; Start class. -Indy beetle (talk) 20:43, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
• Targa expedition (1490) C; although well written, most sources are centuries old. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 04:16, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
• Texas Purple Heart Medal Looks B to me. Cheers. CPA-5 (talk) 12:43, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
• William Harper (Rhodesian politician) Confirmed as B-class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:03, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
• William P. Morse Not sure that this person is notable. Second opinion sought. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:03, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

  A little hesitantly, I think they scrape over the bar. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:53, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

MilHistBot (talk) 00:10, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

ACR to-do list for March 2023

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Erwin Böhme needs two more general reviews.

I think this one could probably be closed. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:23, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/M8 Armored Gun System needs another general review.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/9th Missouri Sharpshooter Battalion has one support plus source and image reviews.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Berea Has three supports and an image review. Needs closure on the source review.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Hanford Engineer Works has just the one oppose so far. Needs the works.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/USS Marmora (1862) has two supports and source and image reviews.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Diadumenian has two supports and source and image reviews. Needs one more review.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Ernest Roberts (Australian politician) has two supports and source and image reviews.

Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:23, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Contest results for March Bugle

Hi guys, if some kind person would like to add this in here, that'd be great. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:50, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

@WP:MILHIST coordinators: Hello...?!

Ian Rose (talk) 12:37, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

@Ian Rose: - I've slung something together for the Bugle. Hog Farm _Talk 15:59, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

I have done all of the backroom work for February, apart from awarding the prize for first place ... Gog the Mild (talk) 16:55, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Done now. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 21:09, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

ACR to-do list for April 2023

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Erwin Böhme needs two more general reviews.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/M8 Armored Gun System needs another general review.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Maurice Suckling needs two more general reviews.
  • The nominator has retired and not edited for over a month. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:35, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

    I hope he is okay. I have withdrawn the nomination. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:50, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Epsom riot Mertbiol hasn't been active lately, so need another review.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tiberius III Nearly there.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Soviet cruiser Vasily Chapayev Needs a couple more reviews. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:03, 29 March 2023 (UTC)