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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXIV (December 2008)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: The Bugle
Issue XXXIV (December 2008)
Project news
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. 13th Airborne Division (United States)
  2. 2nd Canadian Infantry Division
  3. Action of 13 January 1797
  4. Akutan Zero
  5. AMX-30
  6. Arena Active Protection System
  7. Blair Anderson Wark
  8. British Empire
  9. Frederick III, German Emperor
  10. Phan Dinh Phung
  11. Rheinmetall 120 mm gun
  12. SS Dakotan
  13. SS Washingtonian
  14. Tanks in the Spanish Army

New featured lists:

  1. Timeline of the Adriatic campaign, 1807–1814

New featured topics:

  1. Spanish Tanks

New A-Class articles:

  1. Battle of Salamis
  2. Bruce Kingsbury
  3. Four Freedoms (Norman Rockwell)
  4. George Ingram
  5. Jagdgeschwader 1 (World War II)
  6. John Whittle
  7. Lexington class battlecruiser
  8. Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment
  9. SM U-5 (Austria-Hungary)
  10. Tetrarch (tank)
  11. USS Iowa turret explosion
  12. Zanzibar Revolution
Current proposals and discussions
  • Design competition Editors with design skills urgently needed to design an eyecatching logo for this newsletter. The logo needs to incorporate a bugle motif as well as the newsletter's title, "The Bugle". Fame and honour (a barnstar) guaranteed for the successful design. Submit entries here please.
  • Who will be the three "2008 Military historians of the Year"? There are 13 candidates so far and the number is rising rapidly. The winning editors will receive the Gold, Silver and Bronze Wikis; and all other nominees the WikiProject barnstar. To nominate editors you admire, or to cast your votes, please visit here!
  • A new drive has been started to identify the core topics of World War I with the aim of improving their quality before the centenary of the start of World War I in 2014.
  • A discussion is underway regarding flag icons and whether to rewrite the current guidelines to reflect the Manual of Style.
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This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 02:03, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Republic of Ireland

Thanks for catching my gaffe over the Nursing in Ireland article! I'm afraid I don't know that part of the world well enough, and so just used the existing subheading as the page title. Cheers, Basie (talk) 12:05, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

HMS Inflexible (1876)

Back in December 2006 you worked on the above article for HMS Inflexible. I have been trying to trace the origin of the caption on the image at the top of that article, which says the original masts were removed in 1885. As far as i can see, this comment appeared somewhere in the middle of your edits. Anyway, there is a picture of a painting of the battle of Alexandria, 1882, which shows the ships masts pretty much as they are after the supposed 1885 changes. The picture appears p. 80 in the the book, 'the life of lord fisher of Kilverstone' by Admiral R h bacon, supposedly painted by the Chevalier de Martino. Of course, it is entirely possible the chevalier was not present and obtained a picture of the ship after its alterations, but still this is an anomaly. Wondered if you know anything about it? Sandpiper (talk) 20:30, 22 January 2009 (UTC)