Template:WikiProject Ghost towns

Ghost towns C‑class High‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Ghost towns, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Ghost towns on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Ghost townsWikipedia:WikiProject Ghost townsTemplate:WikiProject Ghost townsGhost town
C	This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

This WikiProject banner template uses Module:WikiProject banner, a meta-template for easily creating and maintaining project banners. Please report any errors or feature requests to Module talk:WikiProject banner. Information or warnings about the template are below:

Automatic parameter checking is enabled and pages with invalid parameters can be found in the tracking category.

Template documentation

This template is used on approximately 2,500 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This is the WikiProject banner template used by WikiProject Ghost towns to keep track of articles within its scope.

Basic usage

Place this on the talk page of relevant articles:

{{WikiProject banner shell |class= |
{{WikiProject Ghost towns |importance= }}
}}

Full usage

It is usual to remove any unused parameters from the template call.

{{WikiProject banner shell |class= |listas= |blp= |
{{WikiProject Ghost towns |importance= |category= }}
}}

Parameters

importance – see #Importance assessment below.
category – set |category=no if, and only if, a banner is being used for demonstration or testing purposes, to prevent unnecessary or undesirable categorization. Otherwise, omit this parameter.

Deprecated parameters

listas – this parameter should be used with the banner shell template, not on individual project banners. Please see Template:WikiProject banner shell for details.
class – this parameter should be used with the banner shell template, not on individual project banners. See #Quality assessment below.

Quality assessment

This project uses Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Valid values are shown below.

Classification based on class parameter

Input (not case sensitive)	Class	Category	Population
FA	FA	Category:FA-Class Ghost town articles	7
A	A	Category:A-Class Ghost town articles	0
GA	GA	Category:GA-Class Ghost town articles	4
B	B	Category:B-Class Ghost town articles	34
C	C	Category:C-Class Ghost town articles	125
Start	Start	Category:Start-Class Ghost town articles	798
Stub	Stub	Category:Stub-Class Ghost town articles	1,167
FL	FL	Category:FL-Class Ghost town articles	0
List	List	Category:List-Class Ghost town articles	78
NA	NA	Category:NA-Class Ghost town articles	0
File	File	Category:File-Class Ghost town articles	0
Category	Category	Category:Category-Class Ghost town articles	0

Classification of redirects and disambiguation pages

If the |class= parameter is not defined and the WikiProject banner is placed on the talk page of a redirect (in any namespace) or disambigation page then it will automatically be classified as follows:

Redirects will automatically be classified as NA-class and placed in Category:NA-Class Ghost town articles.
Disambiguation pages will automatically be classified as NA-class and placed in Category:NA-Class Ghost town articles.

Classification based on namespace

In addition, if |class= is empty, undefined or unrecognized, then the class will be deduced from the namespace of the page when possible.

Namespace	Class	Category	Population
User talk	NA	Category:NA-Class Ghost town articles	0
Portal talk
Template talk
Module talk
Project talk
Draft talk
Help talk
MediaWiki talk
File talk	File	Category:File-Class Ghost town articles	0
TimedText talk	File	Category:File-Class Ghost town articles	0
Category talk	Category	Category:Category-Class Ghost town articles	0

In all other circumstances, articles will be classed as Unassessed and placed in Category:Unassessed Ghost town articles.

Importance assessment

This project uses the standard importance scale. Valid values are shown below.

Input (not case sensitive)	Importance	Category	Population
Top	Top	Category:Top-importance Ghost town articles	8
High	High	Category:High-importance Ghost town articles	32
Mid	Mid	Category:Mid-importance Ghost town articles	208
Low	Low	Category:Low-importance Ghost town articles	1,959
NA	NA	Category:NA-importance Ghost town articles	0

TemplateData

This template identifies the article as being within scope of WikiProject Ghost towns.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
importance	`importance`	Assess the importance or priority of the article to the WikiProject Suggested values `Low` `Mid` `High` `Top` `NA` Example low	Line	suggested
category	`category`	Set to no to display the banner without any categories. For testing or demo purposes; should not be used in articles. Suggested values `no`	Line	optional

Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Subpages of this template.