Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/March Madness 2017

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The Military history WikiProject's March Madness 2017 has now concluded.

About the drive

March Madness is a backlog reduction drive, which will run from 00:01 UTC on 1 March through to 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2017. The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project; however, only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible.

The backlog reduction drive is a four-week effort focused on the following areas:

• tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
• updating the project's currently listed A-class articles to ensure their ongoing compliance with the listed criteria
• creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.

Scoring

You will receive points for each article you work on, based on the schedule listed below.

Serial	Aspect/Category	Points
1	Tagging an article for Milhist	1 point
2	Adding a task force to the Milhist banner	1 point
3	Assessing an article	5 points
4	Updating the external links on an A-class article	5 points
5	Updating the content on an A-class article	10 points
6	Creating a requested article	15 points / 25 points

Points can be claimed for multiple aspects for the same article. For instance, adding a project banner and a task force to the talk page will result in two points being awarded. Additionally, if a project banner and task force are added to an article's talk page, and the article is assessed, 7 points will be awarded. The same applies for all other aspects/categories.

Notes

Useful links

The following links can be followed to find articles to tag and assess:

• Military history articles with no associated task force
• Unassessed military history articles category
• Requests for assessment of military history articles
• New military history articles
• Military history articles with incomplete B-class checklists

The following links can be followed to find requested articles:

• Military history announcement templates (individual task-force specific lists of requested articles can be found through this link)
• Draft-Class military history articles
• Missing topics about military units
• Missing topics about military and warfare
• Missing topics about military history
• Missing topics about vehicles (including aircraft, ground vehicles, ships etc)
• Missing topics about weaponry
• Missing topics about World War II
• Missing topics about espionage
• Missing topics about Russian, Soviet, and CIS military history
• Missing topics on military historiography

The following links can be followed to find A-class articles to update:

• Military history A-class articles

Awards

As a token of our appreciation for your efforts, the coordinators will be presenting service awards and barnstars based on the number of articles you improve. The awards will not be cumulative, rather each participant will qualify for a single award based on the total number of points you accumulate.

• 
  One Stripe
  (25 points)
• 
  Two Stripes
  (50 points)
• 
  Three Stripes
  (100 points)
• 
  WikiChevrons
  (500 points)

• 
  Tireless Contributor Barnstar
  (750 points)
• 
  Working Man's Barnstar
  (1,000 points)
• 
  Barnstar of Diligence
  (1,500 points)
• 
  WikiProject Barnstar
  (2,000 points)

To add a bit of friendly competition, the three editors who earn the most points by 31 March 2017 will be awarded bronze, silver and gold wikis.

• 
  Third place overall
• 
  Second place overall
• 
  First place overall

The coordinators will post awards to your talk page within a few days of the end of the drive. If you'd like yours earlier, please ask one of the coordinators.

How to participate

To take part in the drive, please add your name to the list of participants below. Then, in alphabetical order, please create a new worklist section for yourself on the worklist page, here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/March Madness 2017/Worklists.

Now you can begin working on articles in the categories listed above. For each article:

1. Fix the listed problem by editing the article or its talkpage the assessment, then
2. List the article under the appropriate category in your worklist section
3. For any new article that is created, editors are encouraged to list the article for assessment at WP:MHA

Participants

1. Euryalus (talk) 01:46, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
2. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:28, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
3. Janweh64 (talk) 07:38, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
4. Catlemur (talk) 08:09, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
5. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 09:14, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
6. Petebutt (talk) 10:06, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
7. Newm30 (talk) 10:30, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
8. Kges1901 (talk) 10:50, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
9. Yulun5566 (talk) 11:43, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
10. Miyagawa (talk) 11:45, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
11. DPdH (talk) 11:50, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
12. Molestash (talk) 13:47, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
13. TeriEmbrey (talk) 14:43, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
14. ZLEA ^{(Talk,Contribs)} 15:26, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
15. TomStar81 (Talk) 22:10, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
16. Anotherclown (talk) 04:39, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
17. auntieruth (talk) 14:34, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
18. —MBlaze Lightning ^T 18:55, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
19. Arius1998 (talk) 02:03, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
20. HerodotusTheFraud (talk) 3:30, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
21. AustralianRupert (talk) 10:44, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
22. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 04:04, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
23. Trilotat (talk) 18:24, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
24. Randomness74 (talk) 18:33, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
25. Filiep (talk) 09:51, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
26. Washoe the Wise (talk) 17:38, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
27. Lineagegeek (talk)
28. Mifter (talk) 00:22, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
29. K.e.coffman (talk) 04:28, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
30. Lord Ics (talk) 8:38, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
31. StatGuru (talk) 22:41, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Points table

Username	Points	Placing	Entitlement
Anotherclown	109	–	Three Stripes
Arius1998	353	–	Three Stripes
AuntieRuth	297	–	Three Stripes
AustralianRupert	840	–	Tireless Contributor
Catlemur	702	–	WikiChevrons
DPdH	1,365	2nd	Silver Wiki Working Man's Barnstar
HerodotusTheFraud	524	–	WikiChevrons
Iazyges	260	–	Three Stripes
Janweh64	37	–	One Stripe
K.e.coffman	779	–	Tireless Contributor
Kges1901	1,788	1st	Golden Wiki Barnstar of Diligence
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga	16	–	N/A
Lineagegeek	214	–	Three Stripes
Lord Ics	231	–	Three Stripes
Mifter	66	–	Two Stripes
Molestash	196	–	Three Stripes
Newm30	15	–	N/A
Peacemaker67	122	–	Three Stripes
StatGuru	408	–	Three Stripes
Sturmvogel_66	153	–	Three Stripes
Randomness74	145	–	Three Stripes
TeriEmbrey	15	–	N/A
Trilotat	1,297	3rd	Bronze Wiki Working Man's Barnstar
Washoe the Wise	25	–	One Stripe
Yulun5566	12	–	N/A
Zeromonk	50	–	Two Stripes
ZLEA	105	–	Three Stripes

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