Template:VaultOrganisationBrief
Assessment panel for pages covering investigation teams, societies, clubs and similar hobbyist or grassroots organisations — as distinct from formal academic research bodies ({{VaultResearchBrief}}), individuals ({{VaultProfileBrief}}), locations ({{VaultLocationBrief}}), or documented works ({{VaultWorkBrief}}).
Formerly named Template:VaultOrganisationAssessment — that name now redirects here. Please use {{VaultOrganisationBrief}}
Designed for groups whose significance lies in what they did and who they influenced, rather than in a body of formal findings — e.g. local ghost-hunting teams, UFO spotter clubs, cryptid search parties, folklore societies.
Place below the article introduction.
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Usage
{{VaultOrganisationBrief
|scope=Multi-county investigation team covering Essex, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire
|methodology=On-site overnight investigations combining witness interviews, mediumship and photography
|key_members=Founder Name; Co-founder Name
|notable_case=The [[Example Case]] investigation, 2005
|successor=[[Example Successor Organisation]]
|current_status=Defunct (2007)
|legacy=A neutral summary of the group's significance to the wider history documented in the Vault.
}}
Parameters
- scope — geographic reach or subject-matter focus
- methodology — how the group actually investigated things
- key_members — founders or other notable individuals, most useful when they don't already have a full profile page
- notable_case — the group's most significant or representative investigation
- successor — any organisation that continued its work, if applicable
- current_status — Active / Defunct / Dissolved / Merged / Renamed, etc. (distinct from the infobox status field — use this to add nuance, e.g. "Defunct as an independent team; absorbed into successor organisation")
- legacy — a neutral summary of why the group matters to the Vault's documented history. Avoid asserting whether any investigation's findings were genuine.