Wikipedia:WikiProject Ghost towns/Assessment

Ongoing assessment at WikiProject Ghost towns, which you can join, is conducted on two separate levels. First the article is assessed for its "class." Stub or start? B or C? GA or FA? Class helps us keep track of where we are and where we should go, in terms of work. The second criterion an article is assessed on is its importance to the project. A table below helps explain. Essentially the article subject's historical value is assessed. Mid level importance having regional, state or local significance at a greater than county level. Top level importance being any article that no print encyclopedia could be without. The lowliest lows are for those run-of-the-mill abandoned town sites, the "just another abandoned town"s.

Assessment instructions
An article's assessment is generated from the class parameter in the WikiProject Ghost towns project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):



The following values may be used:


 * FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Ghost town articles)
 * should only be used for articles that are currently listed as featured articles


 * GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Ghost town articles)
 * should only be used for articles that are currently listed as good articles


 * B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Ghost town articles)
 * C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Ghost town articles)
 * Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Ghost town articles)
 * Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Ghost town articles)
 * NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Ghost town articles)

In addition, non-article pages can be rated as well. Though for the list and category class it's better to use our templates because it adds them to the appropriate category in Category:WikiProject Ghost towns articles, which helps immensely with overall organization.

The following values may be used, but capitalization is irrelevant:


 * Dab (adds articles to Category:Disambig-Class Ghost towns articles)
 * should be used on disambiguation pages related to WikiProject Ghost towns


 * Image (adds articles to Category:Image-Class Ghost towns articles)
 * should be used on image pages related to or in articles related to WikiProject Ghost towns


 * Redirect (adds articles to Category:Redirect-Class Ghost towns articles)
 * should be used on redirect pages related to articles in WikiProject Ghost towns


 * Template (adds articles to Category:Template-Class Ghost towns articles)
 * should be used on WikiProject Ghost towns template pages, such as an infobox or navigation box.

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Ghost town articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

Importance assessment
An article's assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the WikiProject Ghost towns project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):



The following values may be used:


 * Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Ghost town articles)
 * should only be used for top-importance articles.


 * High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Ghost town articles)
 * should only be used for high-importance articles.


 * Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Ghost town articles)
 * should only be used for mid-importance articles.


 * Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Ghost town articles)
 * should only be used for low-importance articles.


 * NA (for use on non-articles).

Importance scale
Articles for which a valid importance is not provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Ghost town articles. The importance should be assigned according to the importance scale below.