Welcome to the fourth edition of the Bugle for 2017!
As always, last month's featured and A-class promotions can be found in our article news section; the healthy total of new MilHist FAs is part of a broader trend upwards in the number of articles promoted to featured status since the beginning of the year. In our regular book review section, Nick-D discusses a 37-year-old work that has stood the test of time and Hawkeye7 covers a fairly recent work on the British nuclear weapons program. Hawkeye7 has also kindly provided a detailed account of Australian participation in the advance on the Hindenburg Line in this month's op-ed. Finally, regular contributor TomStar81 provides a summary of the key events around the world during this month a hundred years ago in his World War I timeline.
The MilHist FA, A-class, GA and Peer Reviews for January–March 2017 have been tallied. Krishna Chaitanya Velaga headed the list, followed by Sturmvogel_66, Nikkimaria and Peacemaker67. You can find the names of everyone who contributed reviews here, and we thank them all for their efforts.
The month of March saw the project running the March Madness drive, with the aim to increase our content by awarding editors for creating new articles from "requested article" lists, as well as dealing with tagging and assessment backlogs and maintaining the quality of current MilHist A-class articles. The drive has concluded now with 27 editors submitting worklists. Kges came first, DPdH came second and Trilotat came third. A list of participants, finalised worklists, awards and the overall points table can be found here. Thank you to all who participated and made the drive a success.
In March, the contest department completed its 117th round of competition. A total of 70 articles were submitted by nine editors. Sturmvogel_66 took out the competition with 132 points from 17 articles, while Parsecboy came second with 122 points from 12 articles. Sturmvogel has been awarded the Chevrons for his achievement, and Parsecboy has received the Writer's Barnstar. Auntieruth55, Djmaschek, Iazyges, Peacemaker67, Kg1901, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga and Trilotat also contributed entries. Please submit any articles you are working on for this month's round of competition now.
About The Bugle
First published in 2006, the Bugle is the monthly newsletter of the English Wikipedia's Military history WikiProject.
