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Your military history newsletter – Issue LXXXVIII, July 2013 Front page • Project news • Article news • Book reviews • Interview •

From the editors

Welcome to the July 2013 edition of the Bugle!

The backlog reduction drive conducted during June was highly successful. The targets for three of the categories (requested photographs of military history, articles with incomplete B-Class checklists and articles needing expert attention) were exceeded, and solid progress was made against the other goals. The final results broken down by participating editor is available here. Wild Wolf placed first, followed very closely by Peacemaker67, with PINTofCARLING in third. Editors interested in following up on the project's backlogs will find lots to keep them busy in the military history articles needing attention and military history articles with incomplete B-Class checklists categories.

In our regular departments this month, the book review focuses on Australian frontier wars, and article news showcases a record number of Featured and A-Class articles so far for 2013. There is no op-ed this month, but we have brought you one of our semi-regular interviews, which this month features a trio of MilHist editors discussing their experiences with their respective Wikimedia chapters.

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

Awards and honours

• The A-Class medal with Diamonds has been awarded to:
  • Hawkeye7: for Enrico Fermi, Niels Bohr, and Robert Bacher

• The A-Class medal with Swords has been awarded to:
  • Ian Rose: for No. 86 Wing RAAF, No. 81 Wing RAAF, and No. 78 Wing RAAF
  • Sturmvogel 66: for USS Saratoga (CV-3), Conte di Cavour-class battleship, and HMS Warrior (1860)

• The A-Class medal with Oak Leaves has been awarded to:
  • Nick-D: for McDonnell Douglas A-4G Skyhawk, Boeing C-17 Globemaster III in Australian service and Lockheed C-130 Hercules in Australian service.

• The A-Class medal has been awarded to:
  • HJ Mitchell: for Operation Barras, British military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War and List of sieges of Gibraltar.

Contest department

• The contest department completed its 73rd round of competition last month. A total of 55 articles were submitted by 11 editors. Parsecboy came first with 204 points from 22 entries to receive the Chevrons, followed by Ian Rose, who earned the Writer's Barnstar with 121 points from 17 entries. Honourable mentions go to Tomobe03 (60 points), Zawed (58 points) and Peacemaker67 (44 points). Cdtew, Inkbug, RoslynSKP, Djmaschek and Arius1998 also fielded entries. Please submit any articles you are working on for this month's contest now.

About The Bugle First published in 2006, the Bugle is the monthly newsletter of the English Wikipedia's Military history WikiProject. » About the project » Visit the Newsroom » Subscribe to the Bugle » Browse the Archives + Add a commentDiscuss this story These comments are automatically transcluded from this article's talk page. To follow comments, add the page to your watchlist. If your comment has not appeared here, you can try . Great job as usual team! Thanks, Peacemaker67 (send... over) 09:06, 26 July 2013 (UTC) Belated thanks, mate! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 07:24, 17 August 2013 (UTC)