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Orders ProjectTFW:ORDERS

The Orders Project maintains the Tenth Fleet Wiki as a complete, verbatim, and searchable record of the organization's directive history – Admiralty Orders, Naval Directives, Bureau of Ships Directives, Fleet Orders, Ship's Orders, and the earliest Tenth Fleet orders – each captured faithfully from its source and enriched with consistent metadata and a standardized lead, without ever altering the order text itself.

Project lead: Michael Garcia (Lord McCovey Cove).

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Goal

Every directive on record as its own page, that:

• reproduces the order verbatim from its source (forum post or attached PDF), never summarized;
• carries a standardized two-sentence lead identifying the issuing office and summarizing the order, added above the verbatim text;
• is tagged with consistent {{Order info}} metadata (date, issuer, type, status, supersession) for search and cross-referencing.

Scope

All directive types across the organization and its history:

• Admiralty Orders, Naval Directives, Bureau of Ships Directives, Joint Chiefs and other bureau directives;
• Fleet Orders and Ship's Orders (subordinate to the above);
• the earliest Tenth Fleet orders (2013–2014), which predate the forums and were reconstructed from the original member group.

Method

1. Capture verbatim. Transcribe the order exactly from the source. Newer directives often post a summary blurb with the real order as an attached PDF – extract and reproduce the PDF, not the blurb.
2. Add the lead, don't touch the body. Prepend the two-sentence lead; the issuer is extrapolated from who held the relevant office on the order's date, the summary is drawn from the order body.
3. Tag with metadata. Record date, issuer, type, and status in {{Order info}}. Corrections and context are added as new metadata fields, never by editing the order.
4. Mark succession. When a later order supersedes an earlier one (a role or command reassigned), set the earlier order's status to Superseded with a by= pointer – only when a specific superseding order is identified.

Conventions and rulings

Decisions adopted for the project, recorded so they are applied consistently:

• The order record is forensic and immutable. These pages are used by the Bureau of Training for examinations. Order content is never altered – not for spelling, not for clarity. All tooling and corrections live in {{Order info}} fields or the added lead, never in the order text.
• Verbatim, not summarized. Content goes in word-for-word. Light formatting (a bold lead sentence, wikilinks, the news template) is allowed; wording is never changed.
• An absent order is not evidence of a change. A command, ship, or office only changes when a directive says so – silence in the record proves nothing (this is the same rule the Ships project relies on).
• Data protection. Where a page falls under the wiki's data-protection policy, the command record is preserved while honors lists and rosters are removed; information about children is always redacted. Every redaction cites the policy.
• Link peerages, not people. Peerage titles and place-names are wikilinked (markup only, which does not alter the verbatim text); personal names are not.

Status

Measure	Count
Order pages in the Orders namespace	4,049
Bureau of Ships Directives	500
Naval Directives	247
Admiralty Orders	347

An initial batch of order pages that lacked a lead has been brought to the two-sentence standard; roughly 170 single-sentence pages and about a dozen undated pages remain. Supersession tagging and the 2013–2014 backfill are ongoing.

Related projects

• Ships – the two projects meet at BuShips and the Naval Directives. BuShips Directives establish each hull's commissioning, changes of command, and decommissioning, which drive the ship pages' command histories and their Active/Inactive dispositions; Naval Directives establish fleet, task-group, and echelon assignments. Completing and standardizing the order record here directly improves the accuracy of the ship pages, and gaps found there (unpublished decommissions) surface as citation-needed flags on the affected hulls.

To do

• Finish the two-sentence lead pass (the remaining single-sentence and undated pages).
• Continue supersession tagging where a superseding order can be positively identified.
• Complete the 2013–2014 Tenth Fleet backfill and its year-block index.
• Reconcile PDF-attachment orders that currently show only the forum summary blurb.