TenthFleet:Template guide

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

The Template guide catalogs the templates used on the Tenth Fleet Wiki and explains which one to use for each kind of content. Every parameter listed here is taken from the template's own source. For how to lay out a particular kind of page, see the Contributor's guide and the per-topic building guides.

All parameters are optional unless noted; include only the ones you need.

Infoboxes

An infobox is the summary sidebar at the top-right of an article. Choose the one that matches the subject; all share the wiki's dark house style.

Data infoboxes

Template	Use it for	Key parameters
{{Infobox-peerage}}	A peerage land — barony, county, duchy, grand duchy, steadholding, or senator-for-life	name, rank, holder, nation, planet, created, elevated, created_by, coronet, seat, motto, image, arms_caption, status
{{Infobox-award}}	An award or decoration	name, postnom, abbrev, ribbon, medal, tier, precedence, type, branches, authority, eligibility, announced
{{Infobox-chapter}}	A ship (a local chapter)	name, hcn, type, class, branch, fleet, city, co, reportsto, crest, image, status
{{Infobox-echelon}}	A fleet, squadron, division, or station	branch, fleet, co, reportsto, formed, ao, crest, flagship, flag, status
{{Infobox-bureau}}	A Bureau of The Royal Manticoran Navy: The Official Honor Harrington Fan Association, Inc.	branch, sl, dsl, 2dsl, cos, crest, flag, flash
{{Infobox-shipclass}}	A class of vessel	name, type, class, builders, operators, armament, complement, dimensions, speed, preceded, succeeded, image
{{Infobox-RMA}}	A Royal Manticoran Army unit	name, type, co, colonel, hq, established, strength, motto, nickname, patch, guidon, crest, status
{{Infobox-event}}	An event or convention	name, type, classification, dates, location, host, organizer, goh, status, image

Legacy: {{medal-info}} is the older award infobox (name, image, image2, image3, auth, branches, freq). New award pages should use {{Infobox-award}}; medal-info remains only on legacy pages.

Copy-and-fill skeletons for the two most common:

{{Infobox-peerage
| name         =
| rank         =            (Barony / County / Duchy / Grand Duchy / Steadholding / Senator for Life)
| holder       =
| nation       = [[Star Empire of Manticore]]
| planet       =
| created      =
| elevated     =            (omit unless the land was later raised to a higher rank)
| created_by   = Queen [[Elizabeth III]]
| coronet      =
| seat         = [[House of Lords]]
| motto        =
| image        =            (the arms file; omit to fall back to the House of Lords placeholder)
| arms_caption =
| status       =            (omit for active; Defunct / Dissolved / Held in memoriam)
}}

{{Infobox-award
| name        =
| postnom     =            (post-nominal — ONLY for awards listed at [[Post-nominals]]; otherwise use abbrev=)
| abbrev      =
| ribbon      =            (ribbon image file)
| medal       =            (full-medal image file)
| tier        =            (1-6; auto-cites PD-SC-1007 §7)
| precedence  =            (e.g. "11 of 76 (RMN/RMMC)")
| type        =            (Gallantry / Service / Order / Campaign / Membership / Qualification / ...)
| branches    =
| authority   =            (auto-cites PD-SC-1007 §18)
| eligibility =
| announced   =            (auto-cites PD-SC-1007 §13)
}}
{{reflist}}

On {{Infobox-award}} the tier, authority, and announced fields automatically attach the standard PD-SC-1007 Awards Policy footnotes, so the page must include {{reflist}}. The ribbon image is captioned "Service ribbon" and the medal "Full medal" by default.

Static reference sidebars

These take no parameters — each displays a fixed list:

• {{Infobox-units}} — Army & Marine unit types.
• {{Infobox shiptypes}} — warship types.

Content and maintenance templates

Template	Use it for	Parameters
{{News}} + {{News end}}	A Fleet News item (on a page titled TenthFleet:News/Your headline)	date, author, source
{{Superseded}}	Flag a whole document as superseded or voided	by, type, status, note
{{Section superseded}}	Flag a single section as superseded	by, status, note
{{Order superseded}}	Flag a whole order page superseded by a later order	new_order, order_type
{{Order rescinded}}	Flag an order as rescinded	new_order, order_type
{{Order info}}	Add metadata to an order page	by, status
{{Citation needed}}	Mark an unsourced statement inline	—
{{New award}}	Highlight a row just added to an award's recipient roll (orange, per PD-SC-1007 §14)	—

News-item skeleton:

{{News|date=1 July 2026|author=Name, Title|source=https://forums.trmn.org/...}}
...article body, reproduced verbatim...
{{News end}}

The date drives both the article header and the news feed's ordering; no category tag is needed (the template adds it).

Navboxes

• {{Awards}} — navigation box for all award articles. Place at the foot of an award page.
• {{Editor documentation}} — navigation box for the contributor and technical documentation. Place at the foot of a documentation page.

Inline helpers

• {{trmn}} — the organization's full legal name.
• {{hms}} — a ship name with its hull number: {{hms|Medusa|SD-316}} renders HMS Medusa. Companion prefixes for other navies: {{gsn}}, {{gsns}}, {{gsn-ha}}, {{gsnlac}}, {{rhns}}, {{sms}}.
• {{w}} — a link to Wikipedia: {{w|Main Page|Wikipedia}}.

Order-page furniture

Order and directive pages are assembled from a set of helpers: {{Order Header}}, {{Order Sig}}, {{Order Sig Dir}}, {{Order navigation}}, {{Orderrow}}, and {{Orders quick buttons}}. See TenthFleet:Documenting an order for how they fit together.

See also

• TenthFleet:Manual of Style — formatting and style rules.
• TenthFleet:Guide to layout — how to structure an article.
• TenthFleet:Infobox construction — how the infoboxes are built, for maintainers.