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• A trial collaboration for peer reviews has begun between the Military history Project and the Video Game project with the aim of improving the review process by getting cross project input on articles. It will run until June 30, at which point an evalutation of the program will take place to determine its fate.
• A discussion has been started on how to restructure Category:World War II. All input welcome!
• The special projects department has opened. It will focus on specific ad-hoc high-priority tasks and implement them with informal, short-term groups of editors.
• The May newsletter is now available!
• Tag & Assess 2008 has been launched. All editors are very welcome as we've got 60,000 articles to work through. As usual, barnstars galore, plus a friendly competition for the coveted bronze, silver and gold wikis. See here.

Featured article candidates 

Cold War • Verdeja (tank) • Battle of Verrières Ridge • 1965–1966 Central African Republic coup d’état • Montana class battleship • Brian Horrocks

Featured article review 

Isaac Brock • Structural history of the Roman military • War of the Spanish Succession • Theodore Roosevelt • AK-47

Other featured content candidates 

Portal:World War II • Tank schematic diagram • H.M.S. Pinafore

A-Class review [Attention needed!] 

Nguyen Van Nhung • Operation Varsity • Roman-Persian Wars

Good article candidates 

Full list...

Peer review 

USS Wisconsin (BB-64) • Battle of Lissa (1811) • Lince (tank) • Uriel Sebree • Tank • Roman-Persian Wars • Operation Brevity • USS Lenape (ID-2700) • USS Princess Matoika (ID-2290) • USS Finland (ID-4543) • USS Mercy (AH-4)

Articles needing attention 

...to referencing and citation (11,659) • ...to coverage and accuracy (5,057) • ...to structure (2,992) • ...to grammar (696) • ...to supporting materials (3,170) • ...to tagging (6)

Project news

• Editors needed for Tag & Assess 2008. To coincide with the summer holidays, it will be gearing up from 15 June. As usual, barnstars galore!
• Partner peer reviews: for a thirty-day trial period, we'll be running joint peer reviews with Wikiproject Video Games. The idea is simple: we help with their reviews; they help with ours. This way both wikiprojects benefit from new reviewers and new ideas!
• We're notable: A new book, Simon Fowler's 2007 Guide to Military History on the Internet (UK:Pen & Sword, ISBN 9781844156061) rates Wikipedia as "the best general resource" for military research (p. 7). Of the military pages, he says: "The results are largely accurate and generally free of bias" (he also suggests people join the wikiproject). When rating WP as the No. 1 military site (p. 201) he says "Wikipedia is often criticised for its inaccuracy and bias, but in my experience the military history articles are spot on."
• A-Class reviews: the usual four-day review period may now be extended by up to three days (ie seven days in total) in the following circumstances:

1. the article has no opposes but has insufficient support for promotion or
2. the article's nominator requests more time to resolve matters arising during the review.

The full text is here.

• The special projects department has opened. It will focus on specific ad-hoc high-priority tasks and implement them with informal, short-term groups of editors.
• The Contest department has completed its fourteenth month of competition, which saw 16 entries. The top scorer this month is Cam with 21 points, followed by Redmarkviolinist with 11 points. Woody, Dreamafter, Kyriakos, Nousernamesleft and Outdawg also fielded entries. Blnguyen remains the overall leader, with 188 points in total. You are encouraged to submit articles you're working on as entries.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

1. Battle of Tassafaronga
2. Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood
3. HMS Cardiff (D108)
4. Krulak Mendenhall mission
5. Le Quang Tung
6. Operation Passage to Freedom
7. Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi

New featured lists:

1. List of Texan survivors of the Battle of the Alamo
2. List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Royal Navy
3. List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Indian Army

New A-Class articles:

1. Battle of the Kalka River
2. Battle of Verrières Ridge
3. Brian Horrocks
4. Byzantine navy
5. Erich Hartmann
6. Montana class battleship

Current proposals and discussions

• A discussion has been opened into the structuring of top level operational categories, starting with Category:World War II. All interested editors are invited to help establish a consensus.

Awards and honors

• Congratulations go to Hlj, who has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his many consistently fine and valuable contributions to military history articles within the American Civil War task force.

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