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Military history WikiProject coordinator election

The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect nine coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by February 14! TomStar81 (Talk) 03:15, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXIII (January 2008)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXIII (January 2008)
Project news The project coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect nine coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by February 14! The contest department has completed its tenth month of competition, which saw an unprecedented 44 entries. The top scorer this month is Dreamafter, with 95 points, followed by Cla68, with 42 points, and Ed! and Woody, with 21 points each. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 182 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries. A new auxiliary infobox, {{operational plan}}, is now available. A new page for military history essays has been created; project members are encouraged to post their own advice and opinions on matters within the project's purview. New guidelines concerning precision and ship pronouns have been added to the style guide. Featured picture candidates and picture peer reviews are now accessible through the project's review department. An effort to convert deprecated infoboxes has begun; any assistance is welcome!	Articles of note New featured articles: 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident Battle of Musa Qala George Jones (RAAF officer) Italian War of 1542–1546 Jim Bowie Józef Piłsudski Matanikau Offensive Offa of Mercia Suleiman the Magnificent USS Illinois (BB-65) New featured lists: List of Knight's Cross recipients Order of battle at the Glorious First of June New A-Class articles: 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt Cold War Hans-Joachim Marseille Krulak Mendenhall mission
Current proposals and discussions Discussion about top-level operational categories continues. A discussion about non-English operational codenames has begun. A category restructuring workshop is now open; brainstorming regarding the arrangement of the top-level military history categories is currently ongoing.
Awards and honors Bwmoll3 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his superior contributions to a variety of articles about the United States Air Force, including a great number of those dealing with wings and installations. Bedford has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of the outstanding contribution he has made to the project's organization by going above and beyond the call of duty in tagging, assessing, and classifying a massive number of articles during the 2007 assessment drive.
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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXI - February 2008

Archives  |  Tip Line  |  Editors The Novels WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXI - February 2008
Project news We have had a solid month with an increase of project tagging work. We now have a bit of a backlog of assessments needed. Member news The project has currently 305 members, 6 joined & 0 leavers since the start of January 2008. The member page has been reorganized with it being noted that many member are largely inactive. However this is not unusual for WikiProjects and we have a very loyal core of editors who work diligently away often without recognition. Other news Many book cover images were tagged for deletion because of missing or incorrect fair use rationales in January. Several notes on this subject were placed on the General Forum. Task force news There is a new 19th century task force. if this is an area of interest for you join in and help out. Novel related news 23 January, 2008 - The Nestlé Smarties Book Prize is discontinued as of 2008 Guardian The Jaipur Literature Festival, was held on the 23 - 27 January 2008, and is India's biggest festival of literature. British Council news site Margaret Truman Daniel, president’s daughter and popular author of mysteries, Dies at 83 on the 29 January 2008 NYTimes "Margaret Truman Daniel" obituary Current debates The short story taskforce talk page has a discussion relating to the (non)inclusion of articles on stories by well known authors. Find the debate here.	From the Members Welcome to the Twenty First issue of the Novels WikiProject's newsletter! Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do. We would encourage all members to get more involved and if you are wondering what with, please ask. Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk), Initiating Editor Collaboration of the Month This month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Rabbit, Run. Newsletter challenge Last month's challenge (Master Georgie) was completed by member User:Nick mallory again. Although is worth mentioning that much of the current content is the work of User:Yllosubmarine. The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Wright Morris' award-winning The Field of Vision.
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