Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics

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Adam Smith has been selected for the first Featured Article drive for WikiProject Economics.

Points of interest related to Economics on Wikipedia Portal – Category – WikiProject – Cleanup – Collaboration

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

• The goal of this project is to provide guidelines for articles related to the field of economics and associated subtopics.
• 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.

Sister projects include WikiProject Business, WikiProject Investment, and WikiProject Finance.

Contents 1 Announcements 2 Status 3 Open tasks 3.1 Current tasks and announcements 3.2 Assessing articles 3.3 Common tasks 4 Participants 5 Articles 5.1 Featured content 5.1.1 Featured articles 5.1.2 Featured lists 5.1.3 Candidates 5.2 New articles 6 Templates 6.1 Banner

[edit] Announcements

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.

[edit] Status

[edit] Open tasks

[edit] Current tasks and announcements

• Help bring Adam Smith to featured article status.
  • Visit Talk:Adam Smith for a list of what still needs to be done.

[edit] Assessing articles

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics/Assessment for more details.

• Tag the talk page of economics-related articles with {{WikiProject Economics}} if it's not there already.
• Give unassessed economics articles an importance and quality rating.

[edit] Common tasks

• Tag economics-related articles with the WikiProject Economics banner if the article has not yet been tagged.
• Fulfill article requests.

[edit] Participants

To add yourself to the list of project participants, go to the list of WikiProject Economics participants.

If you would like to display a WikiProject Economics Userbox on your User page, use this template: {{User WikiProject Economics}}. The following will be produced:

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Featured articles

FairTax Harold Innis Max Weber

Panic of 1907 Tulip mania

[edit] Featured lists

List of circulating currencies

List of Nobel Laureates in Economics

[edit] Candidates

[edit] 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.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Banner

Place the following template at the top of the Talk page of any economics-related article to include it in WikiProject Economics by using {{WikiProject Economics}} to produce:

WikiProject Economics

v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject Economics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Economics 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. ??? This page has not yet received a rating on the quality scale. ??? This page has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.

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

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