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Welcome to the Ghost towns WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of listings on U.S. ghost towns.

(For general information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Project information

Scope

The project covers all articles about U.S. ghost towns and defunct settlements. This is to include any towns or municpalities which were absorbed by another entity.

Goals

  • Improve Wikipedia's coverage of listings on American ghost towns.
  • Create guidelines for articles American ghost towns.
  • Determine guidelines for article creation and notability of individuals and companies affiliated with ghost towns.


Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  • A mcmurray: creator, working mostly on U.S. ghost towns, especially in Texas.
  • Katr67: I'll be working on Oregon ghost towns
  • Huwmanbeing: Most interested in Indiana and Illinois towns.
  • Ebyabe: Working on Florida ones


Article Guidelines

This section is meant to provide a brief outline and starting point. A more detailed discussion will be taking place here], for ideas on improving any of the following.

Articles should include: Map and external link, as well as coordinate information at the top left of the page. information as any other settlement on Wikipedia would.

This code may help. I have included an arbitray example, fill in the coordinates of the settlement your article is about:

{{Geolinks-US-cityscale|42.0336383|-88.9356512}}

Basically, I like to follow conventions that seem to have become the norm on Wikipedia regarding cities, villages, towns and other municipalities.

Like so:

Intro

The intro should have basic information. Place name, county, state, founding if known and any other important info that needs to be top loaded.

==History==

Any history section should be more than mere speculation if possible. Cite reliable sources, see Wikipedia:Reliable sources

==Geography==

This section should always contain the coordinates, as accurately as possible. Use the following:

Esmond is located at {{coor dms|42|02|01|N|88|56|08|W|city}} (42.0336383, -88.9356512){{GR|3}}.

==Demographics==

This section is often the hardest to know to any real degree of accuracy when dealing with ghost towns. Sometimes places will be near ghost towns or ghost towns and still have some available U.S. Census data, it's good to just check anyway. Any information must also be sourced and referenced in this section.

== See also ==

Any pertinent internal links that weren't (preferably) linked in the article.

==External links==

Use this code: {{Geolinks-US-cityscale|42.0336383|-88.9356512}}

Article names

Articles should be named as any other settlement would be, e.g. (Place name, State name). In cases where there is more than one place in the same state with the same name, include the county, e.g. (Place name, State name (County name)).

Open tasks

Tasks Open tasks for WikiProject Ghost towns.

Edit or discuss these tasks.

  • Disambiguation - , , more...
    • Verifying locations - Check wrong locale, county etc., more…
    • Pre-existing entries - Places may be known by another name more…
  • Article guidelines - Article guidelines, open questions discussion, more…
  • Assessment - Insert template, assess, more…
  • Categories - Clean-up, population, etc., more…
  • Incoming links - After creating a stub or article, more…
  • Stub addition - When a Ghost town article is small & new, more…
  • Talk pages - Template insertion must begin, more…


Recognized content

Good articles

Did you know (DYK)s

Formerly recognized content

Former good articles

Candidates

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Ghost town-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box of the Main Page.

New pictures

Please feel free to list Ghost town-related articles with new pictures added to them here (newer articles at the top, please). Consider nominating any particularly striking ones as featured pictures, either here or on WikiCommons, wherever they're stored.


Photo requests by state

Templates

Code Result
{{WikiProject Ghost towns}}

Placed on article talk page of any Ghost town-related articles.
WikiProject iconGhost towns NA‑class
WikiProject iconThis page 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
NAThis page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
{{WikiProject Ghost towns list}}

Placed on article talk page of any Ghost town-related list.
WikiProject iconGhost towns NA‑class
WikiProject iconThis page 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
NAThis page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
{{WikiProject Ghost towns category}}

Placed on the talk page of any ghost town-related category.
WikiProject iconGhost towns NA‑class
WikiProject iconThis page 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
NAThis page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
{{User WikiProject Ghost towns}}

Placed on the user page of any WikiProject Ghost towns member
This user is a participant in WikiProject Ghost towns.
{{User WikiProject Ghost towns2}}

Placed on the user page of any WikiProject Ghost towns member
This user is a participant in WikiProject Ghost towns.
{{User Ghost towns}}

Placed on user page of any user who loves ghost towns as much as us.
This user is interested in
ghost towns.
{{ghost-town-stub}}

Placed on any stub related to Ghost towns.
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