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began as a result of recent moves among ship related articles aimed at removing the ship classification and hull number from the article's name. For those of you not nautically oriented, those are the letters and numbers that follow a ship name in parenthesis after the name of the ship and help to
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concerns the use of DMY dates as opposed to MDY dates in military history related biography articles, and the extent to which military history related biography articles should conform to
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has completed its 105th round of competition last month. Another hotly contested month, there were a total of 60 articles being submitted by 10 editors. First place went to
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identify it (i.e. BB-63 for USS Missouri, SSBN-726 for USS Ohio, and so forth). The reason given for the article moves is conformation to
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came second with 93 points from 19 articles. For their efforts, Parsecboy received the Chevrons and Kges earned the Writer's Barnstar.
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also fielded entries. Please submit any articles you are working on for this month's round of competition now.
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provides a summary of the key events around the world during this month a hundred years ago in his ongoing
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In other news, two new discussions have opened that are of interest to the military history project.
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is the monthly newsletter of the English Knowledge (XXG)'s Military history WikiProject.
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As always, last month's featured and A-class promotions can be found in our
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discuss a couple of interesting reads in our regular
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Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Military history
News
April 2016

Your military history newsletter
Issue CXXI, April 2016
Front page
Project news
Article news
Book reviews
Op-ed
World War I timeline



article news
Hawkeye7
Nick-D
book review
TomStar81
World War I timeline
Easter Rising
op-ed
The first discussion
WP:DATETIES
The other discussion
WP:PRECISE
Ian Rose
talk
Nick-D

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