Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics

WikiProject Economics

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This WikiProject focuses on improving articles related to the field of economics.

Goals

• The goal of this project is to provide a forum for discussion of economics articles and topics, and through discussion, provide guidelines for articles related to the field of economics.
• The vision of this project is to improve every economics article substantially so that every article reaches the level of quality of a Featured Article.
• The aspiration of this project is to make Wikipedia an authoritative guide to economics.

Vehicles for discussion include relevant sections below and at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Economics.

Editing guidelines

When editing, project members should keep in mind the core Wikipedia content policies, Verifiability, No original research and Neutral point of view.

• Economic theories and viewpoints presented should be supported by reliable sources. Academic and peer-reviewed publications are highly valued and usually the most reliable sources in areas where they are available.
• Various economic theories and viewpoints should be given due weight in proportion to their prominence in reliable sources.
• Regarding validity, peripheral or parochial theories should not have their centrality to the discipline misrepresented. We should describe the majority views as such, and minority views as such.
• WikiProject Economics/Style guide describes a proposed style for economics articles.
• WikiProject Economics/Reliable sources and weight gives proposed guidance on obtaining reliable sources and assigning due weight in economics articles.

Announcements

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April 2011

• Feel free to participate in this CfD discussion, relating to all categories representing intersections between class and priority/importance of articles. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 09:09, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

March 2011

• User:The Gnome submits proposal for a Wikiproject on Chartalism.

October 2009

• Work started on a proposed guideline for reliable sources and weight.
• Mediation on the content of WikiProject Economics guidelines.

September 2008

• The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has selected important Economics articles for Version 0.7 to help WikiProject Economics focus our efforts

August 2008

• August 16, 2008: User:CBM creates a list of frequently viewed economics articles
• mid-August: Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics/Assessment gets up and running
• August 4, 2008: WikiProject Business and Economics is renamed WikiProject Business.

May 2008

• May 14, 2008: Voting closes. Adam Smith selected as first Featured Article drive collaboration.
• May 10, 2008: Voting begins on Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics/Featured Article drive.

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 25 Jan 2012 – Facilitation board (economics) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Dtellett (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)

Good article nominees

• 27 Jan 2012 – Economic history of Argentina (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Underlying lk (t · c); start discussion
• 25 Jan 2012 – Wage slavery (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by 173.164.194.214 (t · c); start discussion

Good article reviews

• 28 Nov 2011 – Ed Miliband (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA review by Mtking (t · c); start discussion

Requests for comments

• 09 Feb 2012 – Ron Paul (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Frederich12 (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Feb 2012 – IQ and the Wealth of Nations (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Acadēmica Orientālis (t · c); see discussion

Open tasks

Current tasks

• Help bring Adam Smith to featured article status.
  • Visit Talk:Adam Smith for a list of what still needs to be done.
• Please help bring the article on the 2010 US foreclosure crisis up to speed - it is listed as a high priority start class article in WikiProject Economics
• Add to Capability Approach a section on postcolonial critiques

Assessing articles

• See WikiProject Economics/Assessment for more details.
  • Tag the talk page of economics-related articles with {{WikiProject Economics}} if it's not there already.
  • Go to Category:Unassessed-Class, Unknown-priority Economics articles and assign a priority and quality rating to each article categorized there.

Common tasks

• Tag economics-related articles with the project banner, if they have not yet been tagged.
• Fulfill article requests.

Participants

• To add yourself to the list of project participants, go to the Category:WikiProject Economics participants page, and list your name there.
  • For a list of currently active participants, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics/Census
• If you would like to display the project's userbox, place {{User WikiProject Economics}} on your user page, like this:

	This user is a member of WikiProject Economics

Articles

Statistics

Economics articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1	5	3			9
FL		1	2				3
A			1	1			2
GA	1	10	20	13		5	49
B	11	73	107	67		50	308
C	12	80	143	100		56	391
Start	10	189	556	619		620	1,994
Stub	3	50	154	797		1,324	2,328
List		7	9	7	23	26	72
Book					4		4
NA		2	1		195		198
Assessed	37	413	998	1,607	222	2,081	5,358
Unassessed		1	6	50		1,419	1,476
Total	37	414	1,004	1,657	222	3,500	6,834

Featured content

Featured articles

• Cantillon, Richard
• Economy of the Han Dynasty
• FairTax
• Harold Innis
• Kahn, Akhtar Hameed
• Panic of 1907
• Tulip mania
• Weber, Max

Featured lists

• List of circulating currencies
• List of Nobel Laureates in Economics

• List of recessions in the United States

New articles

Category:Wikipedia new articles

Please feel free to list your new articles on journals or journals-related topics 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 on the Main Page.

Templates

Project banner

Place the following template {{WikiProject Economics}} or {{WPECON}} at the top of the talk page of any economics-related article to include it in the project, displaying:

Please fill in the class and importance parameters to assess articles for quality and importance to the project like so:

{{WikiProject Economics|class=|importance=}} or {{WPECON|class=|importance=}}

If you are unsure of how the article should be assessed, you may leave it blank and another editor will fill the values in.

Infoboxes

• {{Infobox Economist}}
• {{Infobox Economy}}

Navboxes

Main category: Economics templates

• {{Economics}}
• {{Economics sidebar}}
• {{Economic history}}
• {{Economic systems sidebar}}
• {{Macroeconomics}}
• {{Consumption}}

Userboxes

• {{User WikiProject Economics}}

	This user is a member of WikiProject Economics

• {{User Economics}}

	This user is a student of Economics.

• {{User Economics Subject}}

	This user's favourite subject is Economics.

Categories, portals and subpages

Categories

• Category:Economics
• Category:WikiProject Economics

Portals

• Portal:Business and economics

Subpages

• List of all subpages of this page

Resources

Related WikiProjects

Sister projects

• WikiProject Business
• WikiProject Finance
• WikiProject Investment

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External links

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Economics