User talk:E104421/Archive 5

Project news

• The
  Lebanese military history task force
  has been created.
• The recent promotion of
  300
  .
• Following a
  Logistics Department
  . The aim is to make sourcing and citation checking easier by sharing information about editors' personal book holdings. If you have half an hour to spare, why add a list of your Milhist reference books?

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. Battle of Lipantitlán
2. Battle of Khafji
3. Richard Williams (RAAF officer)
4. Tom Crean
5. Third Battle of Kharkov
6. SS Mauna Loa
7. SS Montanan
8. SS Ohioan (1914)
9. USS Constitution

New featured lists:

1. List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Schnellboot service

New A-Class articles:

1. 13th Airborne Division (United States)
2. Alaska class battlecruiser
3. Edmund Herring
4. Revolt of the Comuneros
5. Rheinmetall 120 mm gun
6. SS Black Osprey
7. Stanley Goble
8. Tanks in the Spanish Army

Current proposals and discussions

• Adoption of C-class remains firmly on the Milhist agenda with
  discussions
  approaching their fifth month of debate. More views are sought on this.
• What is a Pyrrhic victory? There's an interesting and lively discussion on this
  here
  . (And the short answer is: follow what the sources say.)
• Can you design logos? We're looking for a snappy new logo to go with the new title of the newsletter. See the ideas so far at the
  newsletter workshop
  .

Awards and honors

• The
  entries
  .

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Project news

• Appearing on the
  Ivan Castro's
  DYK drew 71,300 page views in a single day - now the all-time high for DYK views.
• As a result of the
  2008 Arbitration Committee elections, Lead Coordinator Roger Davies is the fourth coordinator of the project to be appointed to the Arbitration Committee. The others are Kirill Lokshin (2007-2009), FayssalF (2008-2010) and YellowMonkey
  (2007-2008).
• This month saw 14 military history-related articles promoted to
  project's establishment
  in October 2002. Congratulations all round!

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

• here
  please.
• Who will be the three
  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.
• Manual of Style
  .

Awards and honors

• Milhist A-Class medal for three ship-related articles: SS Black Osprey, SS Mauna Loa, and SM U-5 (Austria-Hungary)
  .
• Rheinmetall 120 mm gun, and AMX-30
  .
• The
  entries
  .

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Project news

• Don't forget the six-monthly
  Coordinator elections
  will take place in March for the April-September term. If you want to become more involved in the project, now's the time to start thinking about it!
• Upon the improvement of
  Special Projects Department
  as the second and ninth most frequently-read MILHIST articles.
• Following
  A-Class Medal System
  has been changed to include three new medals: The A-Class Medal with Oak Leaves, the A-Class Medal with Oakleaves and Swords, and the A-Class Medal with Oakleaves, Swords, and Diamonds, each of which is respectfully awarded after 5, 10, and 20 groups of three A-Class Articles.
• The number of our A-Class articles grew by more than 25% during this month, compared to the total number of A-Class articles existent at the end of December.
• Following a successful
  administrator
  .

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. Alaska class cruiser
2. Bruce Kingsbury
3. Fred Moosally
4. Isaac Shelby
5. Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment
6. Operation Brevity
7. Operation Uranus
8. SS Minnesotan
9. Stanley Goble
10. Tetrarch (tank)
11. USS Iowa (BB-61)
12. USS Iowa turret explosion
13. Woodes Rogers

New featured lists:

1. List of Second Boer War Victoria Cross recipients

New featured topics:

1. Adriatic campaign of 1807-1814

New A-Class articles:

1. Battle of Aachen
2. Battle of Grand Port
3. Battle of Kaiapit
4. Bob Chappuis
5. Dreadnought
6. Elmer Gedeon
7. George Alan Vasey
8. George Julian Howell
9. Heinrich Bär
10. James Newland
11. John S. McCain, Jr.
12. Landing at Saidor
13. List of tanks in the Spanish Civil War
14. M249 squad automatic weapon
15. Military history of Australia during World War II
16. Neil Hamilton Fairley
17. North Yemen Civil War
18. Operation Cobra
19. Operation Winter Storm
20. Operation Totalize
21. Percy Statton
22. Port Chicago disaster
23. SM U-14 (Austria-Hungary)
24. SS Timothy Bloodworth
25. Tom Derrick
26. U-1 class submarine (Austria-Hungary)
27. U-3 class submarine (Austria-Hungary)
28. William Bostock
29. Willie Gillis
30. Yamato class battleship

Current proposals and discussions

• A drive is underway 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 Survey is currently underway to determine how MilHist's processes, logistics, and management can be improved.

Awards and honors

• "Military historian of the Year": the winners of the gold, silver and bronze wikis are: in first place, JonCatalán; in second place, Cla68; and in joint third place, TomStar81 and Skinny87. The runners-up in alphabetical, who each receive the WikiProject Barnstar, are: Abraham, B.S., Bellhalla, Dreamafter, Durova, Ian Rose, Nick-D, Saberwyn, Woody, YellowMonkey and Ynhockey.
• For their work improving articles through the
  Military history review process during the fourth quarter of 2008, Joe N, JonCatalán, Skinny87, The_ed17, YellowMonkey, Abraham, B.S., Cam, Woody, Roger Davies, Redmarkviolinist, Jim Sweeney, and Nick-D, have been awarded the Content Review Medal
  .
• WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves
  in recognition of his many valuable contributions to the project as an active reviewer, a thoughtful contributor to military history discussions, a fine content contributor, and a gentleman.
• Milhist A-Class medal with Oakleaves for three ship articles: SS Washingtonian, SS Minnesotan and SS Timothy Bloodworth
  . He is the first editor to receive the Oakleaves.
• George Julian Howell
  .
• Yamato class battleship
  .
• Arena Active Protection System, Operation Winter Storm and List of tanks in the Spanish Civil War
  .
• Guadalcanal Campaign and USS Iowa turret explosion
  .
• Milhist A-Class medal for Operation Epsom, Operation Cobra and Battle of Berlin
  .
• Milhist A-Class medal twice for Neil Hamilton Fairley, Edmund Herring, Admiralty Islands campaign, Battle of Kaiapit, Landing at Saidor and George Alan Vasey
  .
• Lexington class battlecruiser
  .
• Four Freedoms (Norman Rockwell), Bob Chappuis and Elmer Gedeon
  .
• The
  entries
  .

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From the Coordinators

This month has been interesting for MILHIST, as we reorganized a few departments. The Outreach Department has been replaced by the tabs at the top of our totally redesigned project page; thanks to Kirill for the design and Bellhalla for the logo. We also created the Academy, a hub for practical advice about creating, editing, and reviewing quality content. All project members are cordially invited to fill in some of the red links, and new ideas are always welcome.

As you can see on the right, our A-class and featured content is growing quite rapidly; these numbers have now gone up by 45 for the second straight month! Great work! In addition, thanks go out to those who recently helped in reducing the

A-class nominations

backlog. Reviewers are still needed; if you feel up to it, please stop by and leave comments on an article—every review helps!

Lastly, the contest results for the month: Bellhalla took the cake again with 77 points and gets the Chevrons, while Ian Rose gets the Writer's Barnstar for his 60 points. Other participants included Bryce (49 points), Cam (25), David Underdown (11), Kirk (5), Parsecboy (20), Piotrus (?), Rosiestep (3), the_ed17 (27), Wild Wolf (6), and YellowMonkey (35). 51 total articles were improved as part of this.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. Dreadnought
2. Edmund Herring
3. John Whittle
4. Murray Maxwell
5. SS Kroonland
6. United States Military Academy
7. USS Connecticut (BB-18)
8. William Bostock

New featured lists:

1. List of Australian George Cross recipients
2. List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Kriegsmarine

New featured pictures:

1. 1917 surrender of Jerusalem
2. WWI Canadian war bond poster (french)
3. WWI Canadian war bond poster (english)
4. Lexington class battlecruiser
5. Battle of Ticonderoga attack plan, 1759
6. Military College of Chapultepec, c. 1847
7. Machine gun corps, Tell el Sheria Gaza line, 1917
8. First Battle of Manassas map
9. Aftermath of Wounded Knee, January 1891
10. Ottoman camel corps at Beersheba, WWI
11. Japanese archer with targets, 1878

New

1. Iowa class battleships

New A-Class articles:

1. Battle of Sio
2. Battles of the Kinarot Valley
3. Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
4. Clare Stevenson
5. Edgar Towner
6. Falaise pocket
7. Frank Hubert McNamara
8. Japanese battleship Musashi
9. Japanese battleship Yamato
10. Joe Hewitt (RAAF officer)
11. Keith Miller
12. Lee-Enfield
13. Military career of Keith Miller
14. Operation Mole Cricket 19
15. Powder Alarm
16. SMS Moltke (1910)
17. SM U-66
18. SM U-68
19. Sydney Rowell
20. U-5 class submarine (Austria-Hungary)
21. U-20 class submarine
22. USS Texas (BB-35)
23. Walter Nowotny

Project news

• On 22 February, four military history articles—all of them on
  in the news
  items.
• Six articles in our scope appeared on the main page this month: Woodes Rogers (1 February), Action of 13 January 1797 (6 February), 300 (film) (13 February), Theramenes (17 February), Third Battle of Kharkov (19 February), and USS Connecticut (BB-18) (22 February).
• The main project page has been redesigned.
• status page
  ) and for each task force (on the task force page).
• The Military history coordinator elections, to appoint coordinators for the period April–October 2009, take place this month. If you are thinking of standing as a candidate, the schedule is as follows:

Nomination period: 00:01 Sat 7 March - 23:59 Fri 13 March

Voting period: 00:01 Sat 14 March - 23:59 Sat 29 March

Awards and honors

• Ian Rose has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Australian military history articles (including four Featured Articles, an A-Class article, and four Good Articles), his highly civil and collaborative editing, and his willingness to provide advice and assistance to other editors.
• MisterBee1966 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his contributions to seven featured lists on German military awards during the Second World War, and for contributing to four good articles and being instrumental in promoting three of them to A-Class status.
• Today's featured article
  " list to accommodate relevant main-page appearances, and his generosity in providing many images for our visual library.
• The Land has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his significant contributions to the area of maritime warfare, as he has authored six of the seven articles in the "history of the battleship" series, with four of them now being featured.
• U-20 class submarine, and SM U-68
  .
• Abraham, B.S. has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for Percy Statton, Tom Derrick and List of Australian George Cross recipients.
• Cam has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for Operation Totalize, Japanese battleship Yamato and Japanese battleship Musashi.
• Frank Hubert McNamara
  .
• North Yemen Civil War, Battles of the Kinarot Valley, and Operation Mole Cricket 19
  .
• United States Naval Gunfire Support debate, USS Iowa (BB-61) and USS Texas (BB-35)
  .

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From the coordinators

The big news of course was the seventh project coordinator election covering the period ending 30 September. The quality of the candidates was extremely high, with some of the project's top content builders running alongside highly experienced backroom people. Of the eighteen candidates, sixteen were finally appointed, giving us probably the most rounded coordination team so far.

Those elected were: Abraham, B.S., Bellhalla, Cam, Eurocopter, EyeSerene, Ian Rose, Jackyd101, Joe N, Lordoliver, Maralia, MBK004, Nick-D, Roger Davies (lead), Skinny87, The ed17 and TomStar81. Kirill Lokshin continues in his role as coordinator emeritus. Thanks must go to the departing coordinators – Bedford, JonCatalán and Woody – for helping make the project what it is today

The C-class referendum, held at the same time, produced a slight majority of votes for introduction, but was insufficient to demonstrate a clear consensus. So, for the time being at least, therefore, the project will continue without C-class. Otherwise, focus is likely be on the

The coordinators' gratitude goes not only to those who participated in the election and referenda but also to everyone who works quietly and conscientiously away to make participation in this project rewarding, successful and productive. Milhist is very fortunate in its membership! Thank you all,  Roger Davies ^talk 16:15, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. Byzantine navy
2. Falaise Pocket
3. Frank Hubert McNamara
4. Heinrich Bär
5. Juan Davis Bradburn
6. Operation Cobra
7. Port Chicago disaster
8. SM U-66
9. SMS Moltke (1910)
10. Surrender of Japan
11. Tom Derrick
12. William Henry Harrison

New featured lists:

1. List of United States Naval Academy alumni
2. List of United States Naval Academy alumni (astronauts)
3. List of United States Naval Academy alumni (Chiefs of Naval Operations)
4. List of United States Naval Academy alumni (legislators)

New featured pictures:

1. USS Texas (1892)

New A-Class articles:

1. 1964 Brinks Hotel bombing
2. Ba Cut
3. Battle of Artemisium
4. Battle of Fort Washington
5. Battle of Morotai
6. Battle of Tippecanoe
7. Battle of Vimy Ridge
8. Battle of Wau
9. Design 1047 battlecruiser
10. Fountain of Time
11. Frank Horton Berryman
12. Gia Long
13. Henry Wells (general)
14. Hill 262
15. Hue chemical attacks
16. Japanese battleship Haruna
17. Jon Burge
18. Nassau class battleship
19. Operation Freshman
20. SM UB-43
21. SM UB-45
22. Stanley Savige
23. Xa Loi Pagoda raids

Project news

• With 12 entrants working on 63 articles, March was another good month for our article improvement contest, entering in April its third year of operation. The coveted Chevrons go to Bellhalla for his outstanding 127 points, with YellowMonkey bagging the Writer's Barnstar for his highly commendable 65 points. Lordoliver came third with a very respectable 57 points. Our thanks go to our other stalwart article builders: Abraham, B.S. (34), Parsecboy (31), Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus (17), Cam (15), Ian Rose (12), David Underdown (12), the ed17 (10), Backslash Forwardslash (6), and Wild Wolf (1).
• Three articles in the project's scope appeared on the Main Page as
  today's featured article this month: Lazare Ponticelli (12 March), 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt (17 March) and Operation Varsity
  (24 March).

Awards and honors

• Bellhalla has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal with Oak Leaves for three ship articles: SM U-66, SM UB-45, and SM UB-43.
• Hawkeye7 has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for Battle of Sio, Sydney Rowell, and Battle of Wau.
• Parsecboy has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for SMS Von der Tann, SMS Moltke (1910) and Nassau-class battleship.
• Tetrarch (tank), and Operation Freshman
  .
• TonyTheTiger has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for Willie Gillis, Jon Burge, and Fountain of Time.
• Xa Loi Pagoda raids
  .
• The following editors received the WikiProject Barnstar for their help coordinating the project during the past six months: Bedford, Cam, Eurocopter, EyeSerene, JonCatalán, Kirill Lokshin, Maralia, MBK004, Nick-D, Roger Davies, the_ed17 and Woody.

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From the coordinators

Once again, this month, we have a bumper crop of featured and A-class content, and our heartfelt thanks go to editors who have worked so hard to write these. But with our growth in quality content comes increased demand for reviewers. Which is where you can help.

Reviewing is easy and rewarding. You don't need any prior experience and you don't need to write a full review. Any input is helpful so you initially can just comment on what you're comfortable with. Most reviewers start off by focusing one or two things – say, the historical context, or the text, or the references, or the layout, or the images – and as they gain experience, they broaden the scope of the review. You can easily keep up to date with which articles need review, by copying this text – {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} – to your userpage or talkpage. Thanks in anticipation,  Roger Davies

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. 1964 Brinks Hotel bombing
2. Battle of Tippecanoe
3. Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
4. Design 1047 battlecruiser
5. Hue chemical attacks
6. M249 squad automatic weapon
7. Nassau class battleship
8. Raymond Brownell
9. Take Ichi convoy
10. Zanzibar Revolution

New featured lists:

1. List of United States Air Force Academy alumni
2. List of United States Military Academy alumni (astronauts)
3. List of United States Military Academy alumni (non-graduates)
4. List of United States Naval Academy alumni (Medal of Honor)

New featured topics:

1. Lists of United States Naval Academy alumni

New featured pictures:

1. Richmond after the American Civil War
2. Charles P. Stone
3. Idi Amin caricature
4. Joan of Arc WWI lithograph
5. M777 Light Towed Howitzer
6. Robert McGee, scalped as a child by Sioux Chief Little Turtle

New A-Class articles:

1. Adrian Cole (RAAF officer)
2. Amagi class battlecruiser
3. Arthur Henry Cobby
4. Battle of Barnet
5. Battle of Ticonderoga (1759)
6. Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes
7. First Battle of Târgu Frumos
8. Fort Ticonderoga
9. Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
10. John Northcott
11. Keith Johnson (cricket administrator)
12. Landing at Nadzab
13. Landing on Emirau
14. Moltke class battlecruiser
15. Moro River Campaign
16. Operation Charnwood
17. Operation Deny Flight
18. Otto Becher
19. Polish culture during World War II
20. Roman–Parthian War of 58–63
21. Samuel Burston
22. SMS Seydlitz
23. SM UB-10
24. Ton That Dinh
25. Wolfgang Lüth

Project news

• Our top
  Shimgray, Sniperz11, Tartarus and Una Smith
  .
• The Contest department has completed its twenty-fifth month of competition, with 78 articles entered. The top scorer this month is Bellhalla with 103 points followed by Sturmvogel 66 with 95 points. They receive the Chevrons and the Writer's Barnstar respectively. Cool3 commendably came third with 33 points, with honorable mentions going to Abraham, B.S. (32); Ian Rose (26); the_ed17 (25); YellowMonkey (25); Cam (20); Parsecboy (20); Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus (17); and David Underdown (12). Thanks also go to Wild Wolf, Belissarius, Kirk, and Lordoliver, who also fielded entries.

Awards and honors

• JonCatalán has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his distinguished service as a coordinator of this project, his thorough article reviews, and his exemplary contributions to 14 featured articles, one featured topic, and many A-Class and good articles.
• Abraham, B.S. has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal with Oakleaves for Edgar Towner, Henry Wells (general) and Raymond Brownell.
• Hawkeye7 has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal with Oakleaves for Landing at Nadzab, John Northcott and Landing on Emirau.
• Moro River Campaign and Operation Charnwood
  .
• Eurocopter has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for Falaise pocket, Hill 262 and First Battle of Târgu Frumos.
• Samuel Burston
  .
• Ian Rose has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for Clare Stevenson, Joe Hewitt (RAAF officer) and Adrian Cole (RAAF officer).
• Magicpiano has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, Powder Alarm and Fort Ticonderoga.
• MisterBee1966 has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for Heinrich Bär, Walter Nowotny and Wolfgang Lüth.
• Nick-D has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for Military history of Australia during World War II, Battle of Morotai and Australian light destroyer project.
• Amagi class battlecruiser and SMS Seydlitz
  .
• Amagi class battlecruiser and Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes
  .
• Ton That Dinh
  .

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From the coordinators

• With end of year exams beckoning for many members, this has been a quiet month on the talk pages for Milhist. (If you are facing exams yourself, we all wish you the very best of luck!) During this quieter period, some of our most active reviewers are busy revising so it would be really appreciated if you can help with peer reviews or A-Class reviews. You can easily track articles needing review, by copying {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your userpage.
• This month sees our first newsletter editorial. The idea is to provide regular tips and hints to help editors get up to speed with our large (and sometimes complicated) project. This month's piece, by EyeSerene, explains the workings of the project's main template, which is at the core of the project's tagging and assessing activities.  Roger Davies ^talk 20:26, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash
2. Arthur Henry Cobby
3. Battle of Barnet
4. Fort Ticonderoga
5. Fountain of Time
6. Neil Hamilton Fairley
7. Operation Perch
8. SMS Seydlitz
9. SS Pennsylvanian

New featured lists:

1. List of United States Military Academy alumni (Medal of Honor)
2. List of United States Military Academy alumni (Superintendents)

New featured topics:

New featured pictures:

1. The Battle of Schevening
2. USS West Virginia (BB-48)

New A-Class articles:

1. Albert Kesselring
2. Frank Bladin
3. Henry Burrell (RAN officer)
4. List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Kriegsmarine
5. List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Schnellboot service
6. List of Knight's Cross recipients of the U-boat service
7. Midshipman
8. SM UB-14
9. SM UB-16
10. SS American (1900)
11. Teddy Sheean
12. Tucker class destroyer
13. Yorktown-class gunboat

Project news

• The Contest department has completed its twenty-sixth month of competition, with 83 articles entered by 15 editors. This month's top scorer is Bellhalla with 123 points followed by Sturmvogel 66 with 101 points. They receive the Chevrons and the Writer's Barnstar respectively. Parsecboy commendably came third with 47 points, with honorable mentions going to Ian Rose (38), Ed (28), Abraham, B.S. (15), the_ed17 (12), Amore Mio (11) and Kirk (11). Thanks also go to Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus, DPdH, Lordoliver, Belissarius, Wild Wolf, Gaia Octavia Agrippa and mynameinc, who also fielded entries.
• In a welcome addition to a long under-represented area, this month saw the creation of the
  Pakistani military history task force
  , which hits the ground running with 11 participants.
• In another task force development, please help recruit members for some of our smallest and quietest task forces. If you know anyone who may be interested, or are interested yourself, please see the
  Lebanese military history (9); South American military history (9); and Spanish military history
  (9).

Awards and honours

• Bellhalla has been awarded the Milhist A-Class medal with Oakleaves for SM U-10, SM UB-14 and SM UB-16.
• List of Knight's Cross recipients of the U-boat service
  .
• Henry Burrell (RAN officer)
  .

Editorial: "How to use the Milhist template"

Welcome to a new occasional feature of The Bugle, where over coming issues we'll be exploring some of the roles, tasks, and technical functions that go into creating what archivist and researcher Simon Fowler has described as the best general resource for military history on the internet.^† As a project we can rightly be proud of that accolade, and we gratefully acknowledge the debt we owe to those dedicated editors from across Wikipedia that have helped to make the Military history WikiProject what it is today.

Many editors' first inkling of milhist's existence is when they spot our project banner on an article talk page. The banner can be easily added to appropriate articles by any editor, by typing {{WPMILHIST}} at (or near) the top of the talk page on a new line, and saving the page with an appropriate edit summary. This short form of the template will add the article to our project, and also flag the article as needing assessment and assignment to a task force by automatically adding it to the unassessed articles and articles with no associated task force categories.

As with many templates in use on Wikipedia, additional parameters can be specified. Possibly the most useful to include is the class parameter, because this will help out any editors who come along later to assess the article. To add the class parameter, edit the template markup to look like {{WPMILHIST|class=}}... and if you wish, have a read through the assessment guidance on milhists's

Finally, when adding the milhist banner it's useful to assign the article to one (or more) of our

For a full list of all the banner template parameters and more detailed usage instructions, see

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