TenthFleet:Namespaces

Editor's Handbook

A guided path — read the sections in order

Start here

1. Contributor's guide
2. Introduction
3. Be bold
4. Editing basics

Style & layout

5. Manual of Style
6. Guide to layout
7. Naming conventions
8. Namespaces
9. Citing sources

Building content

10. Peerage page
11. Award page
12. Ship page
13. Echelon page
14. Documenting an order
15. Posting news

Templates

16. Template guide

Deep dives

17. Styling & theme
18. Infoboxes
19. Navboxes
20. Dynamic lists (DPL)
21. Supersession
22. Categories

A namespace is a prefix on a page title that says what kind of page it is. When you see a colon in a title, such as Orders:Admiralty Order 1305-01, the part before the colon is the namespace. This page explains the ones you will meet and when to use each.

Pages with no prefix are in the main namespace. That is where the wiki's actual articles live: ships, echelons, peerages, awards descriptions, and so on. Everything else uses a prefix.

The namespaces you will use most

Prefix	Holds	Example
(none)	Articles, the encyclopedia itself	HMS Medusa (SD-316)
TenthFleet:	Pages about the wiki: guidelines, policies, and this documentation	TenthFleet:Manual of Style
Orders:	Orders and directives, kept as a permanent record	Orders:Admiralty Order 1305-01
Awards:	Award and decoration pages	Awards:Manticore Cross
Help:	How to use the wiki software	Help:Editing
Category:	The filing system that groups pages	Category:Ships
Template:	Reusable building blocks such as infoboxes	Template:Infobox-award
File:	Uploaded images and their description pages	File:TenthFleet.png
User:	An editor's own personal page	User:MDGarcia

Every namespace has a Talk twin
Each namespace has a matching discussion space, such as Talk: for articles or TenthFleet talk: for project pages. Use the Talk page to discuss changes without editing the page itself.

Specialised namespaces

The wiki also carries namespaces for particular parts of the organization. You will mostly read these rather than create pages in them:

• Branch and bureau spaces such as RMN:, RMMC:, RMA:, GSN:, IAN:, RHN:, and the bureaus BuComm:, BuPers:, BuTrain:, and others. These hold branch manuals, for example the marksmanship pages under BuPers:.
• Governance spaces: Parliament:, Lords:, and Commons:.
• Members: and FLA: for those offices.
• Sandbox: for practicing edits, and Special: for pages the software generates, such as Special:RecentChanges.

How to put a page in a namespace

You do not do anything special. You simply include the prefix in the title when you create the page. Typing Awards:Cormany Star in the search box and creating that page puts it in the Awards namespace automatically.

Pick the right one before you create
Moving a page to a different namespace later is extra work and can break links. Decide where a page belongs first. If you are unsure, an article about a subject goes in the main namespace, and a page about the wiki itself goes in TenthFleet:.

See also

• Naming conventions, how to name a page within a namespace.
• Category system, the other way pages are organized.