Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/Newsletter September 2007

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XIX (September 2007)
Project news
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
  2. Battle for Henderson Field
  3. Battle of Greece
  4. Battle of Ramillies
  5. Egbert of Wessex
  6. Frederick Russell Burnham
  7. Freedom Monument (Riga)
  8. Issy Smith
  9. Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  10. Omaha Beach
  11. Victoria Cross (Canada)
  12. Winfield Scott Hancock

New A-Class articles:

  1. Barton S. Alexander
  2. Battle of Barrosa
  3. Byzantine-Arab Wars
  4. Cleomenean War
  5. Fort Bayard (Washington, D.C.)
  6. Fort Corcoran
  7. Fort Runyon
  8. George Jones (RAAF officer)
  9. Jean de Carrouges
  10. Operation Passage to Freedom
  11. Smolensk War

New Featured lists:

  1. Army Groups of the National Revolutionary Army
  2. Puerto Ricans Missing in Action in the Korean War

New Featured topics:

  1. Victoria Cross
Current proposals and discussions
  • A proposal to formalize the project's style guide as part of Wikipedia's Manual of Style has been made and is being discussed; comments and suggestions would be very appreciated!
Awards and honors
  • SandyGeorgia was awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of the instrumental role she plays in the featured article process, both by checking the project's featured article candidates to ensure that citations are formatted correctly, and by helping clear out the backlog of featured articles that no longer meet the criteria. Sandy is the first non-member of the project to receive this award.

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