Happy New Year, and welcome to the first Bugle for 2022!
A highlight of this month's edition is the review essayHog Farm has contributed on American Civil War sites in the South and Midwest. The essay discusses HF's experiences visiting many of these sites over the past year, and includes assessments of the state of these sites as well as some very practical advice for visiting them (pack insect repellent if you're headed for sites in Missouri, for instance!).
The regular article news section features two new, and quite striking, featured pictures as well as the usual wrap-up of other recently promoted featured and A-class content.
Nick-D has reviewed a work on the little-remembered Australian Army deployment to Somalia in this month's book review section. It also includes a range of recent reviews published elsewhere, including what we think is our first - and hopefully not last - review sourced from the Black Girl Nerds website.
The December round of the article improvement contest concluded with Ljleppan taking first place with 36 points off seven entries. The runner-up, just a point behind, was Gog the Mild, who scored 35 points with three entries. Catlemur, Djmaschek, FredModulars, Hog Farm, Tomobe03 and Zawed also submitted entries. This round also concluded the 2021 competition. This was won by Gog the Mild, who scored 455 points for 47 improvements to MilHist articles, including bringing 16 to Featured Article status. The full results for all editors who sumbitted entries during the year can be found here.
The 2022 contest is already underway, so consider submitting the articles you work on for entry. Remember – you too could win barnstars!
About The Bugle
First published in 2006, the Bugle is the monthly newsletter of the English Wikipedia's Military history WikiProject.
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