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, follow the procedure below for creating an A-Class review or reappraisal. 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:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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):
  1. 15+ points – the WikiChevrons
  2. 8–14 points – the Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history)
  3. 4–7 points – the Milhist reviewing award (2 stripes)
  4. 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.

Creating an A-Class review or reappraisal

Creating a new A-Class review or reappraisal 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, a new version has to be created manually. Find the archive page Go to Special:WhatLinksHere Put the name of the old review page into the upper text box. It will look like Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/<page name> eg Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/History of military logistics Set the namespace in the lower dropbox to "Wikipedia" One link should be found. It should look like Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/<Year>/<Outcome> where <Outcome> will be Promoted, Kept, Failed or Demoted eg Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/2023/Promoted Click on the link of that archive page, which transcludes the review. Find the last review On another tab or window, go to the talk page of the article and look in the {{article history}} template for any past reviews. They will have the form Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/<page name><number>. If there are any, we will be creating an archive with a number one greater than the last one. Otherwise, we will be creating archive1 Move the review page On another tab or window go to the review page Move the page from <review page> to <review page>/archive<number> without redirect eg. Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/History of military logistics/archive1 * This requires page mover privileges (bundled if you are an admin). If you don't have page mover, you can request it at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Page mover. Update the talk page Go back to the talk page tab and edit the {{article history}} template and change <review page> to <review page>/archive<number> Update the archive Go back to the archive page tab and edit it to change <review page> to <review page>/archive<number> Create the new review The editor can now create a new review or reappraisal by following the instructions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/A-Class review#Instructions  Warning Do not create a new WAR article history entry. This will be created by the Bot when the review is closed.  Warning Do not remove the class=A from the banner shell or the project banner. This will be done by the Bot if the review determines that the article should be delisted.

Establish coordinator election pages

Under the current system used by the Military history Wikiproject, coordinators are tasked with handling certain project-specific operations such as closing A-Class reviews. Because coordinators are held accountable to the project an election is held once a year to determine who among the community's members will serve as a coordinator. While the election itself is a simple approval vote, creating the pages needed for the election can be tricky. Therefore, this Academy page will serve as a walk-through on how to correctly set up the election pages. Before the election Before any election pages are created, the matter of the coordinator election must be brought up with the current coordinator tranche. Ideally, this should be done sometime between mid-July and early August. The reason that the coordinators must first discuss the matter of the election is to settle on the finer details of the upcoming election. Three key aspects should be decided. The first detail relates to the project's activity level: as the activity level in the project rises or falls, the number of coordinators judged to be needed to effectively run the project increases or decreases. Accordingly, then, the coordinators need to establish how many slots should be opened to the project members. In general, the project currently operates efficiently with roughly 8–11 coordinators, although the exact number settled on for the upcoming tranche must understandably be decided based on the workload and the efficiency of the current coordinator tranche. The coordinators must also decide if the total number should include or exclude the Lead Coordinator, which can cause the total settled on to fluctuate by one. The second factor that needs to be discussed is the election format. Historically, when the system was introduced, the format was 14 days for nominations followed by 14 days of election, which worked well for the community but created an illusion that the process was "slow". As a result of this perception the community approved a change in the process that now sees the election format using a 10-day nomination period followed by a 10-day voting period. This process is marginally faster than the older two week system, which helps speed the process up. While the coordinators have used this option for several years, they also have the option of introducing or implementing a new nomination/voting scheme if one is judged to be needed. Accordingly then, the coordinators will need to settle on which of the three options they feel will work the best for the upcoming election. The final matter that must be discussed is the exact date of the election. Ideally, the entire election should take place in the month of September, but as there are 30 days in September the coordinators will need to officially designate a starting day for the nomination period. Once this day is decided, the format the coordinators have agreed upon can be used to determine when the nomination period will end, and by extension when the voting period will start and end. Collectively, these three points once settled will provide the information needed to establish the election pages. Creating the election pages Once the above three factors have been settled on an editor can move to create the election pages. The first page that should be created is the election page proper. (A completed example can be found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/September 2017.) This page should be created as Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/(MONTH) (YEAR) replacing the MONTH and YEAR with the month and year in question. Once you have the correct red link the following information should be added to the page verbatim: {{WPMILHIST Navigation|no-banner=yes}} {{/Tally}} {{TOC limit|3}} == Overview == This election is to appoint the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators|project coordinator team]] for one year, from (ADD THE DATE OF THE INCOMING TRANCHE HERE USING DAY MONTH YEAR FORMAT) to (ADD THE ENDING DATE OF THE UPCOMING COORDINATOR TRANCHE HERE, USING DAY MONTH YEAR FORMAT). Coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project. All of the coordinators, and especially the lead coordinator (or lead coordinators), serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues and focus on specific areas requiring special attention. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers. === Responsibilities === From [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators]]: <blockquote>The primary responsibility of the project coordinators is the maintenance and housekeeping work involved in keeping the project and its internal processes running smoothly; this includes a variety of tasks, such as keeping the announcement and open task lists updated, overseeing the assessment and review processes, managing the proposal and creation of task forces, and so forth. There is fairly little involved that couldn't theoretically be done by any other editor, of course—in only a few places have the coordinators been explicitly written into a process—but, since experience suggests that people tend to assume that someone else is doing whatever needs to be done, it has proven beneficial to formally delegate responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group. <br/><br/> The coordinators also have several additional roles. They serve as the project's designated points of contact, and are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. In addition, they have (highly informal) roles in leading the drafting of project guidelines, overseeing the implementation of project decisions on issues like category schemes and template use, and helping to resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive.</blockquote> Practical information on coordinating may be found [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators|here]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy/Being a coordinator|here]]. The current coordinators are: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Name ! Position ! Standing for re-election? |- | Add the name of the first current coordinator as shown on the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators|coordinator's page]] | The current position the above named editor holds. By virtue of the currently used system, this slot will always be "Coordinator" with the exception of the editor who holds the position of lead coordinator, whose position box should be filled in as "Lead Coordinator" | This slot MUST be added to for each coordinator and should be left blank since only the listed coordinator can decide if he or she wants to stand for reelection. |} === Election process === * '''Nomination period''': (Add the day and month the nomination will begin and the UTC time, day, and month the nomination will end here. For example, "8 September to 23:59 UTC 18 September") * '''Voting period''': (Add the day and month the election phase will begin and the UTC time, day, and month the election period will end here. For example, "19 September to 23:59 UTC 29 September") * Any member of the project may nominate themselves for a position by adding their statement in the [[#Candidates|"Candidates" section below]] by the start of the election. The following boilerplate can be used: <pre> === Name === {{user|Name}} : Statement goes here... ==== Comments and questions for Name ==== *''What have been the achievements of which you are most proud within the Military history WikiProject?'' ** *''What skills/qualities can you contribute as a coordinator?'' ** ==== Votes in support of Name ==== # </pre> * The election will be conducted using simple [[approval voting]]. Any member of the project may support as many of the candidates as they wish. The candidate with the highest number of endorsements will become the lead coordinator (provided he or she is willing to assume the post); this position may be shared in the event that multiple candidates receive the highest number of endorsements. The remaining candidates will be appointed as coordinators to a maximum of eleven appointments (including the lead coordinator). The number of coordinators ''may'' be increased or reduced if there is a tie or near-tie for the last position. * Both project members and interested outside parties are encouraged to ask questions of the nominees or make general comments. == Candidates== {{/Status}} <!-- As per long standing consensus both new candidates and returning coordinators are listed alphabetically below, so add your user name accordingly. Thank you for your cooperation. --> }} Create the status template The second page that will need be created will be the status template. (A completed example can be found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/September 2017/Status). This template uses a set of established parameters to inform editors, readers, and other interested parties when the nominations will open, when the voting will open, and when the elections have concluded. The template itself resides at the top of the Candidates section, and will be present in the page you just created by virtue of the its presence in code copied from the preceding section. To access the template, add /Status to the current election page so that the election page looks like Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/(MONTH) (YEAR)/Status It should give you a red link, click it and then add the following to the status page: ;{{#switch:{{CURRENTYEAR}} |2015={{#switch:{{CURRENTMONTH}} |8=<big>The election has not started yet. Please do not edit this page.</big> |9={{#ifexpr:{{CURRENTDAY}} < 8|<big>The election has not started yet. Please do not edit this page.</big>|{{#ifexpr:{{CURRENTDAY}} < 19|<big>Please <big style="color: red;">DO NOT VOTE</big> yet; the voting phase of the election will open at 00:01 (UTC) on 19 September.<br>If you wish to run, please sign up by 23:59 (UTC) on 18 September.</big>|{{#ifexpr:{{CURRENTDAY}} <= 29|<big>Voting is now open; project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 29 September.</big><br>(This is a [[approval voting|simple approval vote]]; only "support" votes should be made. All other votes will be discounted.)|<big>Voting is now concluded.</big>}}}}}} |#default=<big>Voting is now concluded.</big> }} |#default=<big>Voting is now concluded.</big> }} Current time is '''{{CURRENTTIME}}, [[{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}]] [[{{CURRENTYEAR}}]]''' (UTC) Once the above has been added take care the you change the year and the days to match the current election year and the days for the nomination and voting periods. Once the information has been updated save the page, this will result in the template on the election page being created and if done correctly should automatically switch messages to notify interested parties when the nomination and election phases open and when the election concludes. Tally Box The final page that must be created is the Tally Box. This table tracks the number of editors in the election and the number of votes that each has received, respectively. To create the Tally Box, add /Tally to the current coordinator election page so it looks like this: Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/(MONTH) (YEAR)/Tally taking care to replace the MONTH and YEAR tabs with the current election month and year. Once you have the red link, add the following to the page verbatim, taking care to not that MONTH and YEAR in the example below will already reflect the current election month and year: {| class="plainlinks sortable" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2" style="width: 200px; background: whitesmoke; margin-left: 15px; float: right; border: 1px black dotted; " |- |+ <big>'''Tally'''</big> <br/> <small>[{{fullurl:Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/MONTH YEAR/Tally|action=edit}} edit]</small> |- ! Candidate !! Votes |- |} After adding the section save the page, this will result in the Tally Box being created and added to the election page proper. With this done all three pages for the coordinator election should be created and no further action should be required on your part. With all three pages now live, the current coordinators and the editors of the Military history Wikiproject will be able to edit the pages to announce their candidacies or their decision not to seek reelection. Notify the project that nominations are open See Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy/Using MassMessage for Project Notification for details on how to send a mass message. The relevant list should be Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Members/Active, as this ensures everyone active within the project is alerted. Suggested heading is: Nomination for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open! Suggested message form is: Nominations for the upcoming [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history]] coordinator election have opened. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy/Becoming a coordinator|here]]. If you are interested in running, please sign up '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/September 2025|here]]''' by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators|current coord team]]. ~~~~ Notify the project that voting is open Two weeks later. Suggested heading is: Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open! Suggested message form is: Voting for the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history]] coordinators is now open! A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. You can vote '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/September 2025|here]]'''. Voting closes at 23:59 UTC on 29 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators|current coord team]]. ~~~~ Edit the project talk page to add this announcement to the top: {{Quote box |title={{big|Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!}} |quote= A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. You can vote '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/September 2025|here]]'''. Voting closes at 23:59 UTC on 29 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators|current coord team]]. ~~~~ }} After the election Close the voting {{archivetop|The election is now closed. ~~~~ }} to the top of the election page and {{archivebottom}} to the bottom of the page. Notify the winners For the newly elected coordinators, a suggested form is {| style="border: 2px solid lightsteelblue; background-color: whitesmoke;" |rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle;" | [[File:US-O11 insignia.svg|100px]] |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/September {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} |Coordinator stars]]'''''  |- |style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid lightsteelblue;" | On behalf of the members of WikiProject Military history, in recognition of your election to the position of Coordinator, I take great pleasure in presenting you with the Coordinator's stars, and wish you the best of luck for the coming year! ~~~~ |} For the lead coordinator, a suggested form is: {| style="border: 2px solid lightsteelblue; background-color: whitesmoke;" |rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle;" | [[File:US-O12 insignia.svg|100px]] |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/September {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} |Lead Coordinator stars]]'''''  |- |style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid lightsteelblue;" | On behalf of the members of WikiProject Military history, in recognition of your re-election to the position of Lead Coordinator, I take great pleasure in presenting you with the Lead Coordinator's stars, and wish you the best of luck for the coming year! ~~~~ |} For a coordinator emeritus, a suggested form is: {| style="border: 2px solid lightsteelblue; background-color: whitesmoke;" |rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle;" | [[File:Milhist coordinator emeritus.svg|100px]] |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/September {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}#Nomination for Coordinator Emeritus (<editor>)|Coordinator Emeritus stars]]'''''  |- |style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid lightsteelblue;" | It is with immense pleasure that I pass on the unanimous decision of the members of the WikiProject Military History that as a mark of the great esteem in which they hold you and your judgement you be appointed a Coordinator Emeritus of the Project for as long as you should choose to remain one. Congratulations and many thanks for all that you have done for the Project. ~~~~ |} Update the coordinators list Edit the lead of Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators to reflect the current list. Update the notification template Edit Template:@MILHIST to reflect the current list. Update the category Edit the coordinators' user pages to add Category:WikiProject Military history coordinators and remove it from coordinators who are no longer active. Update the Bugle Add the election results to The Bugle at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/October 2025/Project news

Establish military historian and newcomer of the year election voting

Under the current system used by the Military history Wikiproject, coordinators are tasked with handling certain project-specific operations. This Academy page will serve as a walk-through on how to correctly set up the election pages for military historian of the year and newcomer of the year elections. About These elections are conducted between 1 and 30 December each year. Before the election Create the election pages Substitute the following on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history page on 1 December: {{subst:WPMILHIST Nominations for military historian of the year}} ~~~~ {{subst:WPMILHIST Nominations for military history newcomer of the year}} ~~~~ Notify the project See Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy/Using MassMessage for Project Notification for details on how to send a mass message. The mass message tool can be found here. On 1 December, notify the project that nominations are open. Suggested subject is: Nominations are now open for military historian of the year and newcomer of the year awards for 2025! Suggested form is: Nominations now open for the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military History|]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/MHNOTY|newcomer of the year]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/MHOTY|military historian of the year]] awards for {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}! The top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki. Nominations are open [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Nominations for military history newcomer of the year for {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} are open!|here]] and [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Nominations for military historian of the year for {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} are open!|here]] respectively. The nomination period closes at 23:59 on 14 December {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} when voting begins. On behalf of the coordinators, wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. {{subst:Currentuser}} via ~~~~ On 15 December, notify the project that voting is now open. Suggested subject is: Voting is now open for military historian of the year and newcomer of the year awards for 2025! Suggested form is: Voting is now open for the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military History|]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/MHNOTY|newcomer of the year]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/MHOTY|military historian of the year]] awards for {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}! The top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki. Cast your votes [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Nominations for military history newcomer of the year for {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} are open!|here]] and [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Nominations for military historian of the year for {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} are open!|here]] respectively. Voting closes at 23:59 on 30 December {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}. On behalf of the coordinators, wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. {{subst:Currentuser}} via ~~~~ Add the following to the newcomer of the year section: ===Voting=== Nominations for this year's[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/MHNOTY|newcomer of the year award]] have now closed, and it is time to vote for who you think deserves this honour. As with the awards for previous years, all the runners up will also be acknowledged. The nominees for this award and the statements given in support of these nominations are provided above. Voting can be done below by adding a hash sign (#) followed by the four tildes (~~~~) to nominee's sections. As the awards process is one of simple approval, opposes are deprecated. All project members are welcome to vote, but are asked to vote for a maximum of '''three''' candidates. The winner will be the editor who receives the most 'support' votes by the time voting closes at 23:59 (UTC) on 30 December {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}. Good luck to all the nominees! For the coordinators, ~~~~ Along with subheadings for each candidate. Add the following to the military historian of the year section: ===Voting=== Nominations for this year's "Military History Newcomer of the Year" award have now closed, and it is time to vote for who you think deserves this honour. As with the awards for previous years, all the runners up will also be acknowledged. The nominees for this award and the statements given in support of these nominations are provided above. Voting can be done by adding a hash sign (#) followed by the four tildes (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>) to the nominee's section below. As the awards process is one of simple approval, opposes are deprecated. All editors are welcome to vote, but are asked to vote for a maximum of '''three''' candidates. The winner will be the editor who receives the most 'support' votes by the time voting closes at 23:59 (UTC) on 30 December {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}. Good luck to all the nominees! For the coordinators, ~~~~ Along with subheadings for each candidate. After the election Close the voting {{archivetop|Voting is now closed. ~~~~ }} to the top of the election page and {{archivebottom}} to the bottom of the page. Notify the winners on their talk pages For the winners of the Military History Newcomer of the Year, a suggested form is: {{tmbox | image = [[File:Goldenwiki 2.png|60px]] | style = background-color: #fdffe7; | text = '''{{font|text=The Golden Wiki|size=x-large}}''' {{hr}} Congratulations! You have been selected as the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/MHNOTY|Military History Newcomer of the Year]] by a popular vote of your peers in recognition of your contributions to the English Wikipedia's coverage of military history. On behalf of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators|coordinators]] of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history|WikiProject Military history]], it is my pleasure to present the coveted '''Golden Wiki'''; we hope to see more of you in the years to come. ~~~~ }} For runners-up, a suggested form is: {{tmbox | image = [[File:WikiprojectBarnstar.png|60px]] | style = background-color: WhiteSmoke; | text = '''{{font|text=The WikiProject Barnstar|size=x-large}}''' {{hr}} You have been selected as a runner-up for the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/MHNOTY|Military History Newcomer of the Year]] by a popular vote of your peers in recognition of your contributions to the English Wikipedia's coverage of military history. On behalf of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators|coordinators]] of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history|WikiProject Military history]], please accept this token of gratitude and appreciation on behalf of the project; we hope to see more of you in the years to come. ~~~~ }} For winners of the Military Historian of the New Year: {{tmbox | image = [[File:Goldenwiki 2.png|60px]] | style = background-color: #fdffe7; | text = '''{{font|text=The Golden Wiki|size=x-large}}''' {{hr}} Congratulations! You have been selected as the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/MHOTY|Military Historian of the Year]] by a popular vote of your peers in recognition of your contributions to the English Wikipedia's coverage of military history. On behalf of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators|coordinators]] of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history|WikiProject Military history]], it is my pleasure to present the coveted '''Golden Wiki'''. ~~~~ }} For second place: {{tmbox | image = [[File:Silverwiki 2.png|60px]] | style = background-color: WhiteSmoke; | text = '''{{font|text=The Silver Wiki|size=x-large}}''' {{hr}} Congratulations! You have been selected in second place for the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/MHOTY|Military Historian of the Year]] by a popular vote of your peers in recognition of your contributions to the English Wikipedia's coverage of military history. On behalf of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators|coordinators]] of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history|WikiProject Military history]], it is my pleasure to present the esteemed '''Silver Wiki'''. ~~~~ }} For third place: {{tmbox | image = [[File:Bronzewiki 2.png|60px]] | style = background-color: NavajoWhite ; | text = '''{{font|text=The Bronze Wiki|size=x-large|color=maroon}}''' {{hr}} Congratulations! You have been selected in third place for the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/MHOTY|Military Historian of the Year]] by a popular vote of your peers in recognition of your contributions to the English Wikipedia's coverage of military history. On behalf of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators|coordinators]] of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history|WikiProject Military history]], it is my pleasure to present the esteemed '''Bronze Wiki'''. ~~~~ }} For runners-up: {| style="border: 1px solid {{{border|gray}}}; background-color: {{{color|#fdffe7}}};" |rowspan="2" valign="middle" | [[Image:WikiprojectBarnstar.png|100px]] |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" |<font color="maroon">'''{{YEAR}} Military Historian of the Year'''</font> |- |style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | As voted by your peers within the Military history WikiProject, I hereby award you the WikiProject Barnstar for being nominated for the {{YEAR}} Military Historian of the Year Award. Congratulations, and thank you for your efforts throughout the year. ~~~~ |} Update the winners lists These are located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/MHOTY and Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/MHNOTY Update the Bugle Add the election results to The Bugle at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/January 2026/Project news The suggested form is: The [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history#Nominations_for_military_historian_of_the_year_for_2025_are_open!|Military Historian of the Year]] awards have been distributed, the Golden Wiki going to {{u|gold}} for third year in a row. The Silver Wiki was awarded to {{u|silver}} and the Bronze wiki jointly to {{u|bronze}} and {{u|bronze}}. {{u|runner up}} and {{u|runner up}} were runners-up. The [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history#Nominations_for_military_historian_of_the_year_for_2025_are_open!|Military History Newcomer of the Year]] awards have also been handed out, with {{u|gold}} receiving the Golden Wiki and {{u|runner-up}} and {{u|runner-up}} the WikiProject Barnstar. Congratulations to all members of the project on your achievements last year, and best wishes for 2026!

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Public boilerplate notices

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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
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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/Zungeni Mountain skirmish looks likes it's good to close unless I'm missing something. Hog Farm _Talk 05:56, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

  I started on this but reverted the edits because I thought I was closing it incorrectly. In fact, I now think I was doing it correctly under the bot closure procedure. However, I had slipped up by going to the assessment page to change that - actually part of the manual procedure. I removed my original message here because it was posted not long ago and should now be superseded and unnecessary - if my latest simple edit completed the task correctly, which I think I did. I changed the article talk page to A class = pass. If I read the instructions correctly, the bot will do the rest within an hour or two. Additional steps put me on the wrong track. I will check back on the article talk and assessment pages later in the day or tonight to see if the process has been completed correctly. Donner60 (talk) 10:47, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

  Yes, you only have to change Change |A-Class=current to |A-Class=pass. The bot will do all the rest. It may take a few hours - the bot runs as a cron job. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 11:04, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

  Thanks. It worked. Donner60 (talk) 23:17, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Manhattan Project feed materials program has three supports plus source and image reviews. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:14, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

  Done. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:39, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/HMS Hyperion (1807) has three supports plus source and image reviews. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:58, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

  Done. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:39, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Second Battle of Lexington has three supports plus source and image reviews. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:39, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

  Done by Swatjester (talk · contribs) Nick-D (talk) 21:31, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/John Cecil Russell has three supports plus source and image reviews. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:19, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Guam (1944) has three supports plus source and image reviews. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:49, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/2002 Marib airstrike has three supports plus source and image reviews. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:49, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/1979 Salvadoran coup d'état has three supports plus source and image reviews. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:49, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

Four closed. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:24, 10 December 2025 (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/20130819
2. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Degen Earthfast
3. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/America789
4. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Buster40004
5. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/$1LENCE D00600D
6. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Kprtqrf06
7. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Mztourist
8. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20190125
9. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210418
10. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Bluecountrymutt
11. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/DaWulf2013
12. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/DeltaSquad833
13. Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20230508

Discussion

ACR for August

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Maximiliano Hernández Martínez has two supports + source + image reviews.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tailhook scandal has one review.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/HMS Hyperion (1807) has three supports + source + image reviews.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Operation Matterhorn has one support + one ongoing review.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/First Jewish–Roman War has two supports.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Manhattan Project feed materials program has no reviews.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/SMS Fürst Bismarck has two ongoing reviews.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Jackson has no reviews.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Guam (1944) has no reviews.

Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:04, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

MOS:Tanks

Could somebody close the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Military history#Proposal to abolish WP:MILMOS#TANKS? Nobody has commented since September 2024, so I have implemented the consensus of the discussion at MOS:TANKS. I would close it too, but I had participated in the discussion. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:28, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

I have closed the discussion. Donner60 (talk) 00:50, 6 August 2025 (UTC)\

Thanks for that. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:46, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Upcoming Coordinator elections

In about 2 weeks, it'll be September. As no one has yet posted concerning the upcoming coordinator election, I'll ask if we still want the 12, if 2 weeks for the nomination and two weeks for the election is what we want to stick with, and whether we want the 12 to include the Lead Coordinator. Also, so one should see about setting up the pages for the election sooner rather than later. TomStar81 (Talk) 21:40, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

I will give my opinion but would defer to Hawkeye7 and others if they think differently. We have tried for 10 coordinators plus one for the lead for the last two years and have not had enough nominations even to fill the 10 spots. So I think 10 plus 1 would be a good goal. The project could use a few more committed regular helpers.

Unless a former coordinator returns, I have seen only one user doing B class reviews or otherwise around who looks like a good candidate. I have seen at least one or two others who would likely be poor coordinators, due to lack of experience or even erroneous or odd ideas about the project guidelines and article assessment. Of course, that would raise a whole new and different problem, especially if it will effectively take one support vote to be elected in the absence of extra candidates.

I favor the two weeks of nominations to give project members enough time to take notice and to participate if they are busy. The Labor Day holiday is September 1. Some Americans take late summer vacations during that week. So I favor keeping the nominations open long enough to have a chance to pick up someone else late in the the time period. I think two weeks for voting is appropriate. There has been enough time to get the coordinators installed, or continued, and to get started, even if there are extra candidates and just a few days left in the month at the end of voting. Donner60 (talk) 00:43, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

I think we ought to stick with the format we've used the last several years given how late it is in the process. If nobody beats me to it, I'll create the pages tomorrow afternoon if I have time. Hog Farm _Talk 02:20, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

@WP:MILHIST coordinators: - I've created the three election pages. If somebody could please check my work, that would be great. We also usually send out a mass message when the month starts to call for candidates. I do not intend to stand for re-election due to personal reasons unless there is a severe shortage of candidates. Hog Farm _Talk 22:48, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

The pages in question are Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/September 2025, /Tally and /Status. A mass message will go out on 1 September. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:24, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, I've just added a para on this to The Bugle. Nick-D (talk) 11:12, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

@WP:MILHIST coordinators: I don't have a good alternative in mind but despite that I will mention something that I noticed about the nomination page. It now has the sentence: "The remaining candidates with twenty or more endorsements will be appointed as coordinators to a maximum of eleven appointments (including the lead coordinator)." I assume that has been carried over for years. If it had been applied last year, and likely the previous year, only Hawkeye7 would have been appointed. I did not remember this when I wrote my comments above, including that only one vote would be needed for a candidate to be elected. I wonder whether this could discourage candidates who might think they could not get the number of votes needed. On the other hand, a differently stated standard might help encourage an unqualified candidate to apply with the thought that if there are less that 11 total candidates, they could be appointed with one vote. I have thought about different wording but am not satisfied that I have come up with anything much better. Should we consider some other wording or let it play out as is? Donner60 (talk) 19:41, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

I have removed this from the pro forma. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:40, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

... and sent out the mass message. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:03, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello all, some issues mean that I haven't been around for a while. I don't know exactly when I'll be able to be back, but will optimistically leave my candidacy decision up in the air for now. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 21:01, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

I hope you will make a speedy and complete recovery and we can welcome you back in good health. Donner60 (talk) 20:17, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

@WP:MILHIST coordinators: The mass message that just went out doesn't actually have a link to the elections. In lieu of sending a new message, perhaps a box with a link should be added to the top of WP:MILHIST? Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 00:31, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

I have added a link to the pro forma for next time. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:42, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

I have added a box with a link to the top of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 07:07, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Perhaps we need a template or something that can be preloaded with the information in question for a given run. This is not the first time the election message has gone out without a link to the election page, but it is something we need to be better about catching before firing. TomStar81 (Talk) 17:51, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

One exists, but it did not contain a link to the election page. I have updated the pro forma for next time. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:35, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Awards recipients for August 2025 Bugle

Hi, could someone please add the project awards recipients to Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/August 2025/Project news? Thanks, Nick-D (talk) 11:15, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

AutoCheck report for August

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

• 12th (Service) Battalion, South Wales Borderers (3rd Gwent) B class. Donner60 (talk) 02:34, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
• 13th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps B class. Donner60 (talk) 03:13, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
• 13th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
• 18th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (Arts and Crafts)
• 1st Highland Light Infantry F.C.
• 21st (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (Yeoman Rifles)
• 28 August 2025 Israeli attacks on Yemen
• 420th Unmanned Systems Battalion (Ukraine) B class. Addition of conversion of hectares to acres. Donner60 (talk) 03:27, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
• 427th Unmanned Systems Regiment (Ukraine)
• Air raids on Semarang–Salatiga–Ambarawa
• Albert Houle B class. Checked and confirmed for contest. Donner60 (talk) 00:52, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
• Armenian political crisis (2020–present)
• Armenian Revolt (850–855)
• Arturo Guzmán Decena
• Basofi Sudirman
• Battle of Achir (1016) C class. Confusing exposition and incomplete explanation of persons and events. Donner60 (talk) 01:47, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Battle of Chegem (2004) B class. This was a police action, a force of 400 security officers (described in a citation as police) against 8 jihadi militants. Two were killed. Six escaped! I would not consider this a military action but it has been put in the Second Chechen War, guerrilla actions. So I won't remove the project banner as I was inclined to do. Donner60 (talk) 02:23, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Battle of Chelif River (1015) B class. Similar to Battle of Achir but better written. All sources in both articles are in Arabic so hard to evaluate much beyond form. Donner60 (talk) 02:28, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Battle of Hammond's Store B class. Donner60 (talk) 01:07, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
• Battle of Kidal (2023) B class. Donner60 (talk) 01:36, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Battle of Łabiszyn In my view short on B2. It has also been tagged for citations needed, the sources are in Polish so I can't verify that, though the losses aren't cited (which I have flagged with cn tags) - Dumelow (talk) 06:42, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
• Battle of Malatya (1485)
• Battle of Pacora River Bridge
• Battle of Pasjane
• Battle of Passempe
• Battle of Punnaikayal
• Battle of the Ries
• Battle of Vannarapannai
• Battle of Vedalai
• Beta Technologies Alia
• Bohu laser facility
• Brazilian torpedo boat Goyaz B class. Donner60 (talk) 02:30, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• British expedition to Makassar B class. Brief but checks the boxes. Donner60 (talk) 02:34, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Charles D. Pennebaker B class. Clarified a sentence in article. Possibly could have used a few more sections or subsections but doesn't affect assessment. Donner60 (talk) 02:43, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Chichimecatecuhtli
• Crimean campaign (1624)
• Dobropillia offensive
• Ernest McNab B class, checked and confirmed for contest. Donner60 (talk) 00:55, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
• Fort Bema
• Fortifications of Cairo
• Freikorps (Ukraine)
• French aviso Arras B class. Donner60 (talk) 08:04, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
• French aviso Baccarat B class. Donner60 (talk) 08:05, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
• French aviso Béthune B class. Donner60 (talk) 08:07, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
• Greeley Wells B class. Repeated a citation to preserve B class assessment. Donner60 (talk) 02:08, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
• Hampshire Trained Bands B class. Donner60 (talk) 02:20, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
• HMS Norseman (1916) B class. Donner60 (talk) 08:09, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
• Iru hillfort B class. Short article but meets criteria. Donner60 (talk) 02:23, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
• Ivon Julian B class, checked and confirmed for contest. Donner60 (talk) 00:57, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
• Kherson Rifle Battalion (Ukraine)
• Komanda massacre
• LaSalle D. Leffall Jr. Removed project banner, kept B class assessment, added a reply to a talk page post; not notable for modern military service. Donner60 (talk) 04:29, 22 October 2025 (UTC) Further pinged two to ask whether the article by an author, now indefinitely banned for using AI should be deleted due to most or all of his other articles being deleted for AI generated text and spurious references. Donner60 (talk) 05:33, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
• Liam Dwyer Mainly known as a sports car driver but I think the military connection, which featured in his driving career also, is enough for him to be in scope - Dumelow (talk) 06:51, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
• Majeed Brigade
• Matei Ghica
• Military bronies Removed project banner with this edit summary: "removed military history project banner; this article has nothing to do with the military or military culture, it is about a fandom that includes some former military and possibly active duty (but off-duty) personnel, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history#What topics do we cover?" The fandom is for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Seriously. Donner60 (talk) 03:50, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
• Mission Sudarshan Chakra
• MV Forrest Asked editor to make a few small changes to keep B class due to apparent minor b1 problem. Donner60 (talk) 23:20, 27 September 2025 (UTC) Editor made some changes after posting, so leaving B class assessment. Donner60 (talk) 03:58, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
• Navy of the Kingdom of Holland Looks OK to me - Dumelow (talk) 07:05, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
• Oleg the Wise B class. Delisted GA reverted to B class. Donner60 (talk) 00:59, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
• Operation Saratoga
• Pak Hong
• Pak Hongjang
• Pak Ŭijang
• Pinnace No. 1386 sinking Looks OK to me - Dumelow (talk) 06:48, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
• Pyŏn Ŭngsŏng
• Raid on Mosta Looks OK - Dumelow (talk) 07:39, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
• Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada
• Royal Alderney Militia
• Russian submarine Arkhangelsk (K-525) B class. Donner60 (talk) 23:23, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
• Russian submarine Arkhangelsk (K-564) B class. Donner60 (talk) 23:26, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
• Russian submarine Novorossiysk B class. Donner60 (talk) 23:29, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
• Russian submarine Severstal B class. After correction of a relative time reference. Donner60 (talk) 23:36, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
• Russian submarine Veliky Novgorod
• SDK Actions against the Chetniks in the Kragujevac region
• Shaman Battalion
• Siege of Ahmednagar (1558–1559)
• Siege of Ahmednagar (1561–1562)
• Siege of Gulbarga
• Siege of Gyula (1566)
• Siege of Lure
• Siege of Panhala (1694–1696)
• Siege of Trichinopoly (1660)
• Siege of Trieste (1463)
• Sliabh na mBan (armoured car)
• SMS S176 B class. Donner60 (talk) 03:46, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Soviet submarine TK-202 B class. Donner60 (talk) 03:46, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• SS San Gerardo B class. Donner60 (talk) 03:46, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• The Monuments Men (book) B class. Donner60 (talk) 08:02, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
• Theft of the Hesse crown jewels B class. Assessed after request. Donner60 (talk) 01:01, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
• Turkish Abductions Removed the project banner, still B class for several other projects including Piracy. Edit summary: remove military history project banner, slave raids by the Barbary pirates, unaccompanied by any action by any military force before, during or after the raids are not within the scope of the project, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history#What projects do we cover?" Donner60 (talk) 03:06, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• White Paper on the crisis in East Pakistan C class. Edit summary: change assessment to C class due to template stating lead is too short; it is too short and so fails criterion b2 for B class assessment. Donner60 (talk) 03:14, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Yi Suil B class. Another Korean general from the late 1500s and early 1600s, including the Imjin War.
• Yun Inham B class. Another Korean scholar/politician/government official also described as a military leader. Probably within the scope. In any event I am leaving this within the scope though I have some doubts about this one as I did with one such official last month. Donner60 (talk) 02:56, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

MilHistBot (talk) 00:10, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Unreferenced articles drive

Good day to all new and returning co-ords, I am looking forward to working alongside you for the coming year. One thing I am keen to follow up is the discussion we had in July about reducing the backlog of MILHIST articles without a single reference. I think clearing all 1099 articles from the list is an achievable aim. There was talk of a possible drive to be held in November; I am happy to support as well as I can if we want to take this forward? - Dumelow (talk) 13:41, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Yes! Let's do it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:39, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Good idea. I see that many of these are quite old stubs. My initial thought is that many of these old stubs would be good candidates for deletion. Prods may even be possible, although the requirements are somewhat strict. I suspect that references may not be readily available. Some of the articles appear to be about rather obscure topics or persons. In that case, deletion might be a good option for reducing the backlog. I probably will look for some of these articles to place prod templates on when we get started with this drive. I have found in the past, however, that there are a few users who make a hobby of removing prods. If that happens, more formal deletion procedures could be used. I doubt that anyone can make legitimate, persuasive arguments to keep such unreferenced stub articles. For one thing, how can general notability be established for a long-running stub article without any references? Donner60 (talk) 00:22, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

I even found a very old hoax during the site-wide WP:NOV24 project. Hog Farm _Talk 01:40, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

When I discovered and reported Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/George K. Broomhall, in 2018 it was listed as the fifth longest running hoax article on Wikipedia. Now it is listed as the 76th longest running hoax article - if I didn't loose the precise count while counting that far down the list. Yours is now the 7th longest running undiscovered hoax! Progress? FWIW. Donner60 (talk) 10:28, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

I'd like to help with that one. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 04:24, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Wow, is it really April 2021 since we last had a drive? On the assumption that we will keep the same award thresholds as last time, I've had a go at some possible scoring targets in the table below. Feel free to improve as you see fit. I thought we could quite substantially reward bringing these very poor articles to B-class but also offer more modest rewards for articles in the three categories that are closest to B-class (and which have backlogs of less than 400 articles each that we might also make good progress against) - Dumelow (talk) 20:18, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Aspect	Points
Add at least one source to an article categorised as having no sources and remove it from that category	2 points
Assess an article listed at WP:MHAR against the B-class criteria	3 points
Improve an article listed as needing attention only to structure, attention only to grammar or attention only to supporting materials to B-class (assessment must be made by another editor at WP:MHAR)	10 points
Improve an article categorised as having no sources to B-class (assessment must be made by another editor at WP:MHAR)	50 points
Improve any other article to B-class (assessment must be made by another editor at WP:MHAR)	20 points

Hi all I've created the drive page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/November 2025 Article Improvement Drive, if we are happy with it we should probably start publicising the drive - Dumelow (talk) 18:51, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

@WP:MILHIST coordinators: Just a friendly ping as this is a bit lost on the talk page now - Dumelow (talk) 06:34, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

@Nick-D: Could we add a note about this to the October Bugle? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:11, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

@WP:MILHIST coordinators: I have added a summary of the information in Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/November 2025 Article Improvement Drive and a link to the drive page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history#How can you help? and to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history. Donner60 (talk) 00:52, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Donner60, I've dropped a note over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Unreferenced articles as their drive coincides with ours and editors may be interested in participating in both - Dumelow (talk) 06:12, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

@WP:MILHIST coordinators: I proposed three of the old articles for deletion to test how that would result, as I suggested I might do above. Two were turned into redirects to two list articles, which were appropriate and in line with my suggestion of that change as an alternative in one of the prods. The other resulted in editors coming forward and adding details and some sources. Good enough results, I think. Donner60 (talk) 08:41, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

AutoCheck report for September

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

• 18th Medical Command B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:41, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• 194th Pontoon Bridge Brigade (Ukraine) B class. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 22:28, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• 2010 Marib airstrike B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:41, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• 2015 Hawija prison raid B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:41, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• 2025 Eilat drone attack B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:41, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• 2025 Russian drone incursion into Poland B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:41, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• 2025 US Caribbean naval deployment
• 422nd Unmanned Systems Battalion (Ukraine) C class. Significant portion of history is uncited and has some Russian-to-English translation issues with the grammar.⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 22:17, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• 783rd Operational Preparation Brigade (Ukraine) C class, generously. Coverage is incomplete and does not include any information about the formation and creation of the brigade; structure is poor -- while it has the framework of an article, every single line is "On X date, Y person was killed" which is not particularly useful for a prose article. Needs a lot of work to be cleaned up to B-class. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 22:23, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Alwassa–Gwandu campaign
• Battle of Lawdar (2012)
• Battle of Prapashticë Done. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 22:26, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Battle of Rusçuk Done. Postlude section could use some expansion but not a blocker to assessment. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 22:26, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Boghead (bastle) Should this be "castle" instead of ":bastle"? B class. @Hawkeye7: Bastle, i.e. Bastle house is correct when one compares the picture of the structure to the one in the Bastle house article. The description of the structure in both articles is identical. It appears that the alternate names, referring to this as a structure as a castle, are incorrect or at least much less accurate. Donner60 (talk) 02:57, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• Bombing of San Marino
• Capture of Liège (1702)
• Cologne Circle I would have translated kreis as a "ring" rather than a "circle" but B-class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:56, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Fort George, Grenada B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:56, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Gaetano Mannarino B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:56, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Geoffrey Garton B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:56, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Guan Xiangying B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:56, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Hunt Wentworth B class but his military service in World War I does not put him in scope of the Military history project. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:56, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• INS Anjadip (2023) C class -- relied on a couple of generally unreliable sources for claims making it fail B1; I've removed and tagged those and it should be OK to reassess once that's fixed. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 17:09, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• James Smith (RAF officer) Checked and confirmed for contest. Donner60 (talk) 00:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• John Shaw (RAF officer) Checked and confirmed for contest. Donner60 (talk) 00:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• Magnus Eriksson's crusade B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:56, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Maratha Invasion of Srirangapatnam (1682)
• Mongol invasion of Alania
• Mustafa, Pasha of Rhodes B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:56, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• MV Karagatan incident B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:56, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Orlik-class minesweeper Looks OK to me - Dumelow (talk) 19:49, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• Owen Eagleson Checked and confirmed for contest. Donner60 (talk) 00:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• Radar, Coast Defense, Mark I B class. Could use an image. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:43, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• Robert Hill (Australian politician) B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:43, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• Romulo Kintanar B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:56, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Sabotage in World War II -- C-class; it's missing significant amounts of coverage/content relating to national examples (particularly France and Greece are insufficient); I spotted several grammar errors in the text as well; and some of the paragraph citations could be targeted more inline. It's not far off, but it's not quite there yet.⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 17:19, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• Saebyeol-4 - confirmed as B-class. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 16:45, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
• Sikh Intervention in Gilgit
• St. Peter's Chapel, Mare Island B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:56, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
• Velký vlastenecký výlet C class for this project. Most of lead sentence" "is a Czech documentary road movie directed by Robin Kvapil [cs] and released in 2025. It follows three Czech citizens sympathetic to Russia and Vladimir Putin and repeating disinformation narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War, whom the director took to Ukraine to confront their views with reality." Historiography. Edit summary: "Change assessment for military history project to C class, failing b2. A B class military history article needs a longer lead than just one long sentence." Left it as B class for other projects and in banner shell/overall assessment.

MilHistBot (talk) 00:10, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Awards

There are a couple of A-class medal nominations still outstanding. A coordinator needs to add a note "Support and approved" on Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards and change the status parameter in the template to "approved". Our MilHistBot will do the rest. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:46, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Added note: Support all. Changed status of all for July through September to approved. And changed each nomination status to approved. I think I did that right. Let me know if I missed a step somewhere along the line. Donner60 (talk) 02:49, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

All good. Our bot has processed the nominations. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:53, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Featured content targets

On the main project page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history) the current featured picture target of 575 has been exceeded for some time (it currently stands at 678). Rather than just increase this to 750 or some such I thought I would raise the possibility of combining this with the "other featured content" target. This category includes featured lists (150), featured topics (41), featured sounds (69) and featured portals (5). The latter two are defunct processes so the numbers will never increase and the growth in the other two areas is generally very steady so it has always struck me as a poor target. I would propose a combined "other featured content" target that incorporates everything except featured articles as per below - Dumelow (talk) 14:44, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

OK with me. Donner60 (talk) 00:14, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

I'd just note that featured pictures does tick along ok on its own (I'm not sure about Adam Cuerden's activity levels these days, but he used to do a lot of that work), and perhaps leave it separate? In general terms, I don't think it is useful to allow targets to be overshot for long, I don't know who pays attention to them, but it looks better to be striving for more than resting on our laurels. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:27, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm in a hiatus, but mainly because of the absolute pain that J. K. Rowling (a very poor article being claimed to be FA for years) was to deal with. The editing culture around it had driven off anyone saying there were problems with it for years. I'll be back. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 17:58, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, Adam.

I agree with Peacemaker67's comment that it looks better to be striving for more. The proposal accomplishes that for the time being. But his suggestion to leave featured pictures separate (and to increase that target as well as the other target) makes sense to me as as well. Featured pictures is the largest and most prominent category and seems to increase more quickly. It will continue to do so when Adam finishes his work with the J.K. Rowling article.

The combination category would then include only the other topics. The targets for pictures and the all others categories would be adjusted to accomplish the objective. I presume that would mean the percentages now complete for each would be adjusted to several percentage points lower than proposed. Donner60 (talk) 05:36, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm done with Rowling. Honestly, I'd like to try and improve it, but I've spent literal years just trying to push past claims that a FAR from years ago meant that no changes were necessary, despite A. her increasingly prominent anti-trans activism and B. the terrible quality of prose. I'm not left with the energy to actually work on it; but it's at least impossible to claim that, because it's an FA, it needs no work now (seriously, that article had the worst editing culture I've ever seen on Wikipedia. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 07:39, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Unfortunately, this is true of many FA, A-class and GA articles from the early years of Wikipedia. It is especially true for articles about living people, present day and continuing topics and even topics for which not much can be added except possibly a few more recent sources or a few facts being verified or coming to light. It is also true for more recent articles when content is added or changed without citation or dubious or totally incredible sources are cited (e.g. my friend Joe's blog). Glad you will be spending more time and energy on the photos. Donner60 (talk) 02:07, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

I've knocked the FP target up to 750 for now. We are currently at 680, to the target is ~90% met. Perhaps we recast the other target as "200 featured lists and topics"? I can't see the point of tracking featured sounds and featured portals that can never increase - Dumelow (talk) 19:47, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

In the absence of any objection, I'll make the change to "200 featured lists and topics" later today - Dumelow (talk) 08:16, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Sounds good to me.⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 16:41, 24 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, change made - Dumelow (talk) 07:13, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Well, Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford marks my return, it seems. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.7% of all FPs.} 07:46, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Current targets

575 featured pictures: 120.7% complete

275 other featured content items: 96.7% complete

Proposed combined target

1,000 other featured content items: 96% complete

Proposed replacement for "other featured content" target

200 featured lists and featured topics: 96% complete

FA target met

I have done some work to reconcile Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Showcase/FA with Category:FA-Class military history articles, there was an issue with some articles not showing in the category as bannershell changes removed the FA class tag and for some reason the A-class review parameter triggered them to show as A-class instead. Manually flagging a few articles as FA (though perhaps there should be a permanent fix for this in the template, in case the class is removed in future?) has tipped us over the current 1,550 target (we are at 1,554). The obvious next one would be 1,600, if we are happy with that? Based on previous rates of promotion I think this will take about a year to achieve - Dumelow (talk) 07:58, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

If a MilHist article has passed A class review and subsequently gets delisted at FAR, it reverts to its A-class rating, so this is expected. Can you give me an example? I would like to know what caused the banner shell changes. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:48, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

I think these were the three that were showing as A-class: Japanese battleship Mutsu, Japanese battleship Musashi, HMS Endeavour. There were a handful of others that I changed manually but that was because they were still marked as class=GA in the MILHIST banner (which overrode the wider FA class in the bannershell) - Dumelow (talk) 08:54, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

The banner shell overrides the project banners. We cannot add |class=FA to the MilHist banner, because the FACBot will not do that. I will ask @MSGJ: to have a look at Module:WikiProject banner and see if we can fix this. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 09:31, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Again, unless any objection I’ll raise the target to 1,600 and make an announcement on the project talk page in the next day or so - Dumelow (talk) 11:20, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Target updated and talk page post made - Dumelow (talk) 10:03, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

AutoCheck report for October

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

• Afghan National Army Commando Corps B class. Checked and confirmed for contest. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 00:42, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
• Barracks of Intxaurrondo
• Battle of Fahs al-Riyah
• Battle of Gabal El Uweinat
• Battle of Lawdar (2010)
• Bir Singh of Naurangabad
• Buba Yero
• CAT TM.2
• Douglas St George B class. Checked and confirmed for contest. Donner60 (talk) 09:09, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
• Edward Darling (RAF officer) B class. Checked and confirmed for contest. Donner60 (talk) 09:02, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
• Eric Marrs B class. Checked and confirmed for contest. Donner60 (talk) 09:05, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
• Ethiopian-Adal War (1576)
• Francis Richard Lee Mellersh B class. Checked and confirmed for contest. Donner60 (talk) 08:54, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
• Government Security Committee (Denmark)
• Hajen-class submarine (1917) B class. Checked and confirmed for contest. Donner60 (talk) 09:12, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
• Harold White (RAF officer) B class. Checked and confirmed for contest. Donner60 (talk) 08:56, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
• Hiram Sanborn Chamberlain
• Houmochen Chong
• Ideology of the Workers' Party of Korea
• Il-Fosos
• Inyenzi movement
• John Broadley Wilson
• July 1963 Syrian coup attempt
• Kevin Scarce
• Louis Bidalira
• Lynn Arnold
• Mahmud Panahiyan
• Mamor
• Nobuhiko Jimbo
• Oscar Malmros
• Sack of Manfredonia
• Siege of Ponda (1666)
• Sikh–Sindhian relations
• Sjölejonet-class submarine
• SS Wachsturmbann "Eimann"
• Thomas Gell
• Yamta ra Walla
• Yusuf al-Madani

MilHistBot (talk) 00:10, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Operation Matterhorn ACR

Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Operation Matterhorn has been listed above as ready to be closed since mid-October! I'm WP:INVOLVED as I contributed a prose review and the source and image reviews, but could someone else please urgently close it? Note that I've also just listed another Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tailhook scandal as ready for closure, which I'm also involved with. Nick-D (talk) 04:20, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

I've just passed both of these reviews, which I hope is uncontroversial. Nick-D (talk) 22:07, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

A-class reviews would benefit from active management

Yesterday I drew on my somewhat vague authority as a coordinator emeritus to ping various people involved in long held up ACRs, of which there are obviously quite a lot at the moment. I'd suggest that the A-class process would benefit from much more active management from the coordinator team at the moment, to try to move reviews along and close those which have stalled and aren't likely to get going again. Nick-D (talk) 21:48, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Nick. I agree. Given the coord team is often smaller these days, I'm sure no-one will object to coordinators emeritus jumping in and nudging things/passing etc as appropriate. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 23:49, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Travelling at the moment and won't be back until Monday. I made an appeal at the start of the year for an effort on the A-class reviews but it seems to have gone the way of all New Year resolutions and the long-term impact has been more nominations. Many project members have been tied up with our article improvement drive so more manpower will be available in December. I haven't been able to close off any many reviews as I would like because I tried to review as many as I could. The MilHistBot is programmed to accept emeriti as full members of the coordination team so feel free to close reviews. I currently want a volunteer for an image review for Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Manhattan Project feed materials program. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:19, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

@Adam Cuerden: You are the image specialist. So if you have time, can you help out with doing the final review, an image review, needed for Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Manhattan Project feed materials program for an A-class review for @Hawkeye7:? Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 00:48, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

I intend to get back to reviewing these more in December - it's just been a rough several months of work. Hog Farm _Talk 00:34, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

I mean, I'm getting married in three weeks, but I think I can find time. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 13:50, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Best wishes on the coming nuptials. Donner60 (talk) 23:14, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

AutoCheck report for November

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

• 2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
• 2025 Washington, D.C., National Guard shooting B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• 424th Field Artillery Battalion (United States) B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Abd al-Salam of Kware B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Anthony Rook B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Ava–Hanthawaddy War (1422–1423)
• Battle of Chenab (1764)
• Battle of Hollingstedt B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Charles Steedman B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Cyril Babbage B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Dan Stoneking B class but I'd like a second opinion as to whether it is in scope.
• Dumitru Corbea
• Eugen Constant
• First Battle of Plevna
• Frederick E. DuToit Not sure about this one either. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Gattilusio
• Gerrit van der Waals B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Hajji Janseid
• Harry Altham B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Heinrich Höfemeier B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Hispanics in the Roman army B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Horace B. Wilson B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Ilariu Dobridor B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• James Benson (RAF officer) B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Ko Ŏnbaek
• Majlis Khan Humayun
• Military bronies Removed the project banner again and left this message on the article talk page: I have removed the military history project banner (again). This article has nothing to do with the military or military culture, it is about a fandom that includes some former military and possibly active duty (but off-duty) personnel, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history#What topics do we cover?. If you disagree with this, bring it up for discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history. Pinging the coordinators would also be a good idea, especially if no one else comments here. (And left a ping). Donner60 (talk) 00:31, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
• Napoleon Pardoning the Rebels at Cairo B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• R. N. Ganesh
• Rebecca M. Church
• Ross Sutton B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Samuel J. Hays B class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Sarajevo Safari
• Siege of Kalmar (1525)
• Sin Kak
• Sofiya (ship)
• SS Naeco
• Thomas Cooper-Slipper
• Tom Garrison
• USCGC Pandora
• Yi Yangwŏn
• Zhang Zhaoda

MilHistBot (talk) 00:10, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Historian and Newcomer of the Year Nominations Message Date

@WP:MILHIST coordinators: The mediawiki message delivered about six hours ago states that nominations close "at 23:59 on 30 November 2025 when voting begins." The nominations actually close at 23:59 (UTC) on 14 December. I don't have the message delivery flag so someone else will need to send a new message. If everyone takes the current message literally (doubtful but some might), there won't be any nominations. Donner60 (talk) 00:18, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Note: the project talk page date is the correct one so some users/editors may rely on that. Donner60 (talk) 01:25, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

I've corrected the date in the template. Is it worth sending out another mass message? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:08, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

I think it could bring a little more attention to the nominating process and to voting. Also, I noticed that there are no links to the nominations pages on the project talk page posts. Putting links there would be helpful as well. Thanks. Additional note: I see nominations are beginning to appear on the project talk page. I am not sure whether that indicates they are carried over from a separate page or whether this is where they are meant to be placed. FWIW. Donner60 (talk) 02:55, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

I've sent an update message out. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:21, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

A-Class work list for December

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Guam (1944): has three supports + source and image reviews. Awaiting spot checks from Matarisvan
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/2002 Marib airstrike Has two supports + source and image reviews - I have added a third review, so should be ready for closure soon. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:26, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/1979 Salvadoran coup d'état Has two supports + source and image reviews - needs Dumelow to sign off, so may be ready for closure soon. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:26, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/SMS Prinz Heinrich - Has two supports + source and image reviews - needs GGOTCC to sign off, so may be ready for closure soon. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:26, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Operation Forager logistics - Has two reviews
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Bertrand Clauzel - Has two reviews
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/USS Missouri (1841) - Has one support + image review
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/1931 Salvadoran coup d'état - Has one review
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/HMS Lizard (1757) - Has one review
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Edington - Has one review
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/2001 Biggin Hill Airshow disasters - Has one review

@WP:MILHIST coordinators: We have some nominations from first timers, so if we could put some priority on reviewing their articles, that would be great. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:26, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Awards

We currently have two malformed nominations for the A-Class Medal open and another for the A-Class Cross. Aside from the linking issue, mine is excluding Second Battle of Lexington and Pizzaking13's is missing 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état. Parsecboy's A-Class Cross nomination is missing SMS Prinz Heinrich. Hawkeye7 - something seems to have gone awry in MILHISTBot's code for this process. Hog Farm _Talk 17:50, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

The incrementing code apparently also has a glitch - it lists the open ones for me and Pizzaking as 12 and 1 respectively but Pizzaking was already awarded their first one in October and I had my 12th one in March 2025. Hog Farm _Talk 17:55, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

All three issues have been resolved. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:55, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

However, on checking the tally page I also found an entry for "Pizzaking". I have added it to his tally, and will count towards his next ACM. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:41, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

@WP:MILHIST coordinators: I have handed out all the awards for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/November 2025 Article Improvement Drive/Worklists except my own. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:58, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

All awards now handed out. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 20:22, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks both, I've been suffering a bit this month with other commitments and a nasty winter virus so not got things wrapped up at the drive as quickly as I'd have liked. There was some excellent outcomes though, so I'll look to make a summary post on the main talk - Dumelow (talk) 20:56, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Hope you are feeling better. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:37, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

B class assessment criteria, b1

@WP:MILHIST coordinators: @Hog Farm, Sturmvogel 66, and Zawed: The b1 criterion for B class assessment for our project is more specific and requires more citations, especially but not only for tables and lists, than the general Wikipedia b1 criterion. New and even experienced users are likely to refer to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment, which has the same wording as that stated on the Wikipedia-wide assessment page. But they may not refer to, or in the case of new users not even know about, Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy/Citations and references. So I have added the following to the B class level requirements in the introduction section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment: "For specific (b1) citation requirements for a B-class article for this project see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy/Citations and references."

I did not repeat this in the B and BL criteria tables in the project version of the assessment information page. However, the entries in those tables also refer to meeting the requirements in Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/B-Class. I have added to that project page's see also link "and for specific (b1) citation requirements for a B-class article for this project see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy/Citations and references." I think that should give sufficient coverage to the differences or additions to our project criteria for meeting criterion b1.

Please comment if you think these additional links should not have been made or if anything should be done differently to give these differences sufficient coverage. I can revert or change these entries if I have overlooked some reason not to add them to the project pages or to have done this differently. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 07:43, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

I think that that was a very good idea as the general standard is very fuzzy. Thanks for anticipating a possible problem, though I can't think of any time that it's specifically come up in my reviewing.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:48, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Good initiative! Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 21:39, 19 December 2025 (UTC)