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This election is to appoint the project coordinator team for one year, from 30 September 2018 to 29 September 2019. A total of ten coordinators will be elected, including the lead coordinator(s), with scope to vary the total number of coordinators if there is a tie or near-tie for the last position. Coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project. All of the coordinators, and especially the lead coordinator(s), serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues and focus on specific areas requiring special attention. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers.

From Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators:

The primary responsibility of the project coordinators is the maintenance and housekeeping work involved in keeping the project and its internal processes running smoothly; this includes a variety of tasks, such as keeping the announcement and open task lists updated, overseeing the assessment and review processes, managing the proposal and creation of task forces, and so forth. There is fairly little involved that couldn't theoretically be done by any other editor, of course—in only a few places have the coordinators been explicitly written into a process—but, since experience suggests that people tend to assume that someone else is doing whatever needs to be done, it has proven beneficial to formally delegate responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group.

The coordinators also have several additional roles. They serve as the project's designated points of contact, and are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. In addition, they have (highly informal) roles in leading the drafting of project guidelines, overseeing the implementation of project decisions on issues like category schemes and template use, and helping to resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive.

Practical information on coordinating may be found here and here.

The current coordinators are:

• Nomination period: 00:01 UTC, 01 September to 23:59 UTC, 14 September 2018.
• Voting period: 00:01 UTC, 15 September to 23:59 UTC, 28 September 2018.
• Any member of the project may nominate themselves for a position by adding their statement in the "Candidates" section below by the start of the election. The following boilerplate can be used:

=== Name ===

{{user|Name}}
: Statement goes here...

==== Comments and questions for Name ====

*''What have been the achievements of which you are most proud within the Military history WikiProject?''
**
*''What skills/qualities can you contribute as a coordinator?''
**

==== Votes in support of Name ====

#

• The election will be conducted using simple approval voting. Any member of the project may support as many of the candidates as they wish. The candidate with the highest number of endorsements will become the lead coordinator (provided he or she is willing to assume the post); this position may be shared in the event that multiple candidates receive the highest number of endorsements. The remaining candidates will be appointed as coordinators to a maximum of ten appointments (including the lead coordinator), although the number of coordinators may be increased or reduced if there is a tie or near-tie for the last position.

• Both project members and interested outside parties are encouraged to ask questions of the nominees or make general comments.

Kges1901 (talk · contribs)

I have been editing in Military history since I first created an account back in 2014, but I did not actually become truly active in the project until late 2015. Since then, I have mostly edited in project areas, and worked on content creation in the areas of Russian, Soviet, and CIS military history as well as that of the United States.

• What have been the achievements of which you are most proud within the Military history WikiProject?
  • I am most proud of helping to improve the average quality of the Russian, Soviet, and CIS articles, my three FAs, eight A-class, and 24 GAs. Some of these are about relatively obscure units and I believe have helped to illuminate under-covered areas.
• What skills/qualities can you contribute as a coordinator?
  • Despite having been around for only three years, I believe I have picked up experience from watching the Coord and MILHIST talk pages, and have ample leisure time and a general interest in most MILHIST aspects. Although this is my first time running, I am extremely active in MILHIST and believe I can help to reduce specific coord backlogs, such as checking the MILHIST contest at the end of the month, which is a time intensive exercise, and closing A-class reviews.
• Do you agree or disagree with the final decision on the German War Effort case, and why? PeterTheFourth (talk) 01:28, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I agree with the general principles of the case, because they are reasonable restatements of longstanding policies. I disagreed with several of the FoFs and some of the remedies, but I do not intend to participate in relitigation of those as the Arbcom decision has settled the matter. Kges1901 (talk) 01:36, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Peacemaker67 (talk · contribs)

I've been a member of the project since November 2011, and was part of the coord team from 2013–2016 and after a year break, for the last year as well. I have been pretty active in most areas of the running of the project, including reviewing at A-Class and at WP:MHAR, checking and tallying the monthly contest and the quarterly reviewing awards. I'm also an admin, which means I can help out project members with mundane tasks that require the tools. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:24, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• What have been the achievements of which you are most proud within the Military history WikiProject?
  • The 39 FAs I've contributed to, most of which are in the Yugoslavia in WWII subject area, which can be rather fraught at times. I'm especially proud of those FAs that I've developed in collaboration with other editors, like Kragujevac massacre. Also helping keep our assessment processes flowing through reviewing at FAC, ACR, GAN and MHAR.

• What skills/qualities can you contribute as a coordinator?
  • I'm a content creator above all else, but I know how to do pretty much everything that needs to be done to keep the project running. If I don't know something, I generally know who does. I'm semi-retired, so I have a fair amount of free time, which means I have eyes on the project pretty much every day.
• Do you agree or disagree with the final decision on the German War Effort case, and why? PeterTheFourth (talk) 02:28, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for the question, I think it is important that this is addressed in the immediate aftermath of the case. I wholeheartedly agree with all the principles, but have reservations about a couple of the FoF because they lacked sufficient evidence to support them. I raised these concerns during the case. I consequently have reservations about a couple of the remedies. I don't intend to discuss this further here as I participated actively in the case and my views are laid out there in considerable detail at each stage, and this isn't the forum for such discussion. If you would like to explore my answer further, I'd be happy to discuss it on my talk page. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:43, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]