TenthFleet:Projects/Ships - Revision history

MDGarcia: Status: encyclopedic-voice pass complete; class-page reconciliation done; note next steps

2026-07-24T06:51:50Z

Status: encyclopedic-voice pass complete; class-page reconciliation done; note next steps

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	Aggregate figures only; per-ship command and crew data live on the individual ship pages, sourced, and are not duplicated here.		Aggregate figures only; per-ship command and crew data live on the individual ship pages, sourced, and are not duplicated here.

	The encyclopedic-voice pass over the reclassified-Inactive hulls is ~~underway and roughly half~~ complete. Reading each hull's full order record has repeatedly surfaced defects beyond prose – wrong commissioning and decommissioning dates, incomplete command successions, and ships that read as active but were decommissioned years earlier – each corrected against the directives. Most of these hulls prove to have a ''cited'' final decommission (the crew upgraded or merged into another named ship); only the genuinely dormant ones carry a <code><nowiki>{{Citation needed}}</nowiki></code> flag for a decommission that was never published. The [[Bureau of Ships]] and [[:Category:Naval Directives\|Naval Directives]] forum boards are mirrored to the wiki through May 2026.		The encyclopedic-voice pass over the reclassified-Inactive hulls is complete. Reading each hull's full order record has repeatedly surfaced defects beyond prose – wrong commissioning and decommissioning dates, incomplete command successions, and ships that read as active but were decommissioned years earlier – each corrected against the directives. Most of these hulls prove to have a ''cited'' final decommission (the crew upgraded or merged into another named ship); only the genuinely dormant ones carry a <code><nowiki>{{Citation needed}}</nowiki></code> flag for a decommission that was never published. The [[Bureau of Ships]] and [[:Category:Naval Directives\|Naval Directives]] forum boards are mirrored to the wiki through May 2026.

	== Related projects ==		== Related projects ==
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	== To do ==		== To do ==
	* ~~Complete~~ the ~~encyclopedic~~-~~voice pass on the reclassified-Inactive hulls~~ ''(~~in progress, roughly half done~~)''.		* Verify and clean the confirmed-Active pages against current membership data, one ship at a time ''(next)''.
	* Verify and clean the confirmed-Active pages against current membership data, one ship at a time.		* Verify and clean the confirmed-Active pages against current membership data, one ship at a time.
	* Reconcile the aggregation pages (~~class pages,~~ fleet order-of-battle sections) so they reflect the same dispositions.		* Reconcile the remaining aggregation pages (fleet order-of-battle sections) so they reflect the same dispositions ''(class pages done)''.
			* Correct ship pages carrying a stale <code><nowiki>status = Active</nowiki></code> that actually sit in class-page reserve (e.g. Beowulf, Leopard).
	* Backfill fleet and task-group assignments from the [[:Category:Naval Directives\|Naval Directives]] into the ship pages (the forum is reachable and mirrored through May 2026).		* Backfill fleet and task-group assignments from the [[:Category:Naval Directives\|Naval Directives]] into the ship pages (the forum is reachable and mirrored through May 2026).
	* Create the missing echelon pages surfaced by the reconciliation (battle divisions, squadrons, task groups).		* Create the missing echelon pages surfaced by the reconciliation (battle divisions, squadrons, task groups).

	[[Category:Projects\|Ships]]		[[Category:Projects\|Ships]]

MDGarcia: Update status: encyclopedic-voice pass underway (~half done); note date/succession corrections and cited-vs-unpublished decommission pattern; forum synced through May 2026

2026-07-24T05:54:40Z

Update status: encyclopedic-voice pass underway (~half done); note date/succession corrections and cited-vs-unpublished decommission pattern; forum synced through May 2026

← Older revision		Revision as of 05:54, 24 July 2026
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	Aggregate figures only; per-ship command and crew data live on the individual ship pages, sourced, and are not duplicated here.		Aggregate figures only; per-ship command and crew data live on the individual ship pages, sourced, and are not duplicated here.

			The encyclopedic-voice pass over the reclassified-Inactive hulls is underway and roughly half complete. Reading each hull's full order record has repeatedly surfaced defects beyond prose – wrong commissioning and decommissioning dates, incomplete command successions, and ships that read as active but were decommissioned years earlier – each corrected against the directives. Most of these hulls prove to have a ''cited'' final decommission (the crew upgraded or merged into another named ship); only the genuinely dormant ones carry a <code><nowiki>{{Citation needed}}</nowiki></code> flag for a decommission that was never published. The [[Bureau of Ships]] and [[:Category:Naval Directives\|Naval Directives]] forum boards are mirrored to the wiki through May 2026.

	== Related projects ==		== Related projects ==
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	== To do ==		== To do ==
	* Complete the encyclopedic-voice pass on the reclassified-Inactive hulls (~~leads still read present-tense on some~~).		* Complete the encyclopedic-voice pass on the reclassified-Inactive hulls ''(in progress, roughly half done)''.
	* Verify and clean the confirmed-Active pages against current membership data, one ship at a time.		* Verify and clean the confirmed-Active pages against current membership data, one ship at a time.
	* Reconcile the aggregation pages (class pages, fleet order-of-battle sections) so they reflect the same dispositions.		* Reconcile the aggregation pages (class pages, fleet order-of-battle sections) so they reflect the same dispositions.
	* Backfill fleet and task-group assignments from the Naval Directives ~~board once~~ the forum is reachable.		* Backfill fleet and task-group assignments from the [[:Category:Naval Directives\|Naval Directives]] into the ship pages (the forum is reachable and mirrored through May 2026).
	* Create the missing echelon pages surfaced by the reconciliation (battle divisions, squadrons, task groups).		* Create the missing echelon pages surfaced by the reconciliation (battle divisions, squadrons, task groups).

	[[Category:Projects\|Ships]]		[[Category:Projects\|Ships]]

MDGarcia: Fix cross-link to Orders (relative subpage link resolved wrong)

2026-07-21T22:49:11Z

Fix cross-link to Orders (relative subpage link resolved wrong)

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:49, 21 July 2026
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	== Related projects ==		== Related projects ==
	* '''[[/Orders\|Orders]]''' – the ship pages are sourced entirely from the order record maintained by the Orders project. [[Bureau of Ships\|BuShips]] Directives establish each hull's commissioning, changes of command, and decommissioning (its command history and Active/Inactive disposition); [[:Category:Naval Directives\|Naval Directives]] establish its fleet, task-group, and echelon assignments. Gaps or corrections found here – most often a decommission that was never published – feed back to the order record.		* '''[[TenthFleet:Projects/Orders\|Orders]]''' – the ship pages are sourced entirely from the order record maintained by the Orders project. [[Bureau of Ships\|BuShips]] Directives establish each hull's commissioning, changes of command, and decommissioning (its command history and Active/Inactive disposition); [[:Category:Naval Directives\|Naval Directives]] establish its fleet, task-group, and echelon assignments. Gaps or corrections found here – most often a decommission that was never published – feed back to the order record.

	== To do ==		== To do ==

MDGarcia: Add Related projects: Orders (BuShips/Naval Directives linkage)

2026-07-21T22:48:26Z

Add Related projects: Orders (BuShips/Naval Directives linkage)

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	Aggregate figures only; per-ship command and crew data live on the individual ship pages, sourced, and are not duplicated here.		Aggregate figures only; per-ship command and crew data live on the individual ship pages, sourced, and are not duplicated here.

			== Related projects ==
			* '''[[/Orders\|Orders]]''' – the ship pages are sourced entirely from the order record maintained by the Orders project. [[Bureau of Ships\|BuShips]] Directives establish each hull's commissioning, changes of command, and decommissioning (its command history and Active/Inactive disposition); [[:Category:Naval Directives\|Naval Directives]] establish its fleet, task-group, and echelon assignments. Gaps or corrections found here – most often a decommission that was never published – feed back to the order record.

	== To do ==		== To do ==

MDGarcia: Create Ships project page (goal, method, rulings, status)

2026-07-21T19:21:38Z

Create Ships project page (goal, method, rulings, status)

New page

{{TFW navbar header}}{{Venue header|Ships Project|shortcut=TFW:SHIPS}}
<div class="tf-board-lead">
The '''Ships Project''' is an effort to bring every ship-chapter article on the ''Tenth Fleet Wiki'' to a complete, accurate, and properly cited state, written in an encyclopedic voice, with each hull's disposition – '''Active''' or '''Inactive''' – established from the directive record and reconciled against the organization's membership database.

'''Project lead:''' [[User:MDGarcia|Michael Garcia]] (Lord McCovey Cove).
</div>
{{TOCright}}

== Goal ==
A page for every ship commissioned by [[Bureau of Ships|BuShips]] directive, each one:
* carrying a binary '''Active''' / '''Inactive''' disposition that is ''derived from a cited directive'', never inferred from a roster's silence;
* written in Wikipedia voice, letting the citation carry the sourcing rather than narrating the order;
* with a complete commanding-officer succession, correct ranks and dates, current-crew lineage, and locally-linked ship classes.

== Scope ==
All Royal Manticoran Navy hulls, plus allied-navy chapters – Grayson ({{gsn}}/GNS), Andermani (IAN/SMS), and Havenite (RHN/RHNS) – each with its own rank set and holding stations. Space stations, LACs, and pinnaces follow their own conventions (pinnaces are documented on their parent ship's page; LACs get their own pages).

== Method ==
Work proceeds '''one article at a time''': '''search → read → reconcile → revise → verify'''.
# '''Search every namespace''' for the hull first – backlinks (which catch template-generated links), full-text search across all content namespaces, and the parent '''fleet page''', whose command tables are often the only source for a ship's change-of-command dates.
# '''Read the body of every order''', never just its subject line. A "Change of Command" subject is frequently an executive-officer or bosun change, not a new captain.
# '''Reconcile''' the full lifecycle – commissions, recommissions, every genuine change of command, fleet and task-group assignments, honors, and decommission – resolving conflicts against the order body, which is authoritative.
# '''Revise''' to the conventions below.
# '''Verify''' the rendered page (no citation errors, no leaked table markup, confirmed category membership) before moving on.

== Conventions and rulings ==
Decisions adopted over the course of the project, recorded here so they are applied consistently:
* '''Binary status only.''' The infobox <code>status</code> is <code>Active</code> or <code>Inactive</code>. Older values (Decommissioned, Active Reserve, Reserve, Scrapped) all collapse to '''Inactive'''. An inactive ship's <code>co</code> is <code>Vacant</code>; its final commander stays in the succession table.
* '''Disposition must be cited.''' The last lifecycle event decides it – a decommission makes a ship Inactive, unless a ''later'' recommission overrides it. '''The absence of orders is not a disposition change:''' a ship is only "former" or "inactive" if a directive made it so.
* '''The membership database is ground truth for what is currently active.''' Where a chapter reads as active on the wiki but is gone from the database, the ship was decommissioned and BuShips did not publish the directive to the forum. Mark it '''Inactive''' and tag the gap with <code><nowiki>{{Citation needed}}</nowiki></code> rather than inventing a source. This is a publishing failure in the record, not a judgment call.
* '''Wikipedia voice.''' State the fact and attach the reference; do not narrate the order and then cite it. Remove self-referential phrasing ("under this crew", "this chapter", "said task group"). Use the officer's rank ''at the time of the event''.
* '''Crew lineage is the current crew only.''' It documents how the present crew reached this hull (pinnace → LAC → hull upgrades); crews are not combined. A decommissioned ship resets to a single placeholder line, with historical crews moved into the history.
* '''Ship classes link locally''' (<code><nowiki>[[Nike-class]]</nowiki></code>), never off-site. Missing local class pages are acceptable redlinks.
* '''Not a biographical site.''' Personal names are not wikilinked and no member biographies are created; peerage titles and place-names ''are'' linked.

== Status ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Measure !! Count
|-
| Ship-chapter pages in [[:Category:Ships]] || 196
|-
| Confirmed '''Inactive''' ([[:Category:Inactive Chapters]]) || 64
|-
| Reconciled '''Active''' against the membership database || 53
|-
| Dormant hulls reclassified Inactive (unpublished decommissions) || 35
|}
Aggregate figures only; per-ship command and crew data live on the individual ship pages, sourced, and are not duplicated here.

== To do ==
* Complete the encyclopedic-voice pass on the reclassified-Inactive hulls (leads still read present-tense on some).
* Verify and clean the confirmed-Active pages against current membership data, one ship at a time.
* Reconcile the aggregation pages (class pages, fleet order-of-battle sections) so they reflect the same dispositions.
* Backfill fleet and task-group assignments from the Naval Directives board once the forum is reachable.
* Create the missing echelon pages surfaced by the reconciliation (battle divisions, squadrons, task groups).

[[Category:Projects|Ships]]