Template:VaultWorkAssessment
Provides a full-width assessment panel for published works and media documented by The Vault.
Used for:
- Books
- Academic papers
- Films
- Television programmes
- Documentaries
- Experiments
- Important historical publications
Unlike {{VaultAssessment}}, this template does not assess whether a paranormal claim is true or false. It evaluates the historical significance, influence, and relevance of the work itself.
Usage:
{{VaultWorkAssessment
|type=Research publication
|importance=Foundational
|subject=Parapsychology
|significance=One of the earliest major works attempting to study claimed psychic abilities using controlled experiments and statistical methods.
|assessment=Historically significant within parapsychology, but its conclusions remain disputed and have not been accepted by mainstream science.
}}
Parameters
- type — The type of work
- Research publication
- Academic paper
- Book
- Film
- Television programme
- Documentary
- Experiment
- importance — Historical importance
- Foundational
- Influential
- Significant
- Controversial
- Popular
- subject — Related Vault topic
- significance — Why the work matters historically
- assessment — Overall summary of the work's place within its field
Example uses
Research publication:
{{VaultWorkAssessment
|type=Research publication
|importance=Foundational
|subject=[[Parapsychology]]
|significance=Helped establish laboratory-based approaches to studying alleged psychic phenomena.
|assessment=Important historical work, although its conclusions remain debated.
}}
Documentary:
{{VaultWorkAssessment
|type=Documentary
|importance=Influential
|subject=[[UFO research]]
|significance=Introduced UFO investigations to a wider public audience.
|assessment=A culturally significant documentary rather than scientific evidence of the phenomenon.
}}
