Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/Newsletter December 2008

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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