Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics

WikiProject Economics
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This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!

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 mainstream and majority views as such, and minority views as such.

WikiProject Economics/Reliable sources and weight gives guidance on obtaining reliable sources and assigning due weight in economics articles. WikiProject Economics/Style guide describes a proposed style for economics articles.

Announcements

Archived :: 2011 and before ::

Article alerts

Did you know

07 Apr 2025 – Ardo Hansson (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Thebiguglyalien (t · c); see discussion
01 Apr 2025 – Well-being (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Phlsph7 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

07 Apr 2025 – List of animated films in the public domain in the United States (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Absolutiva (t · c); see discussion (9 participants; relisted)
25 Mar 2025 – MAGA Communism (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Remsense (t · c); see discussion (35 participants; relisted)
07 Apr 2025 – List of films in the public domain in the United States (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Absolutiva (t · c) was closed as keep by Star Mississippi (t · c) on 14 Apr 2025; see discussion (12 participants)
06 Apr 2025 – Ronilo Balbieran (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by BuySomeApples (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 13 Apr 2025; see discussion (3 participants)
05 Apr 2025 – Walter Demmelhuber (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Onel5969 (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 12 Apr 2025; see discussion (4 participants)
05 Apr 2025 – Fifth power (politics) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Qwaiiplayer (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 12 Apr 2025; see discussion (2 participants)
02 Apr 2025 – Donald Trump's Liberation Day speech (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by ElijahPepe (t · c) was closed as keep by OwenX (t · c) on 10 Apr 2025; see discussion (81 participants)
31 Mar 2025 – Andres David Drobny (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Mapsama (t · c) was closed as delete by Asilvering (t · c) on 08 Apr 2025; see discussion (7 participants)
16 Mar 2025 – Lawrence C. Marsh (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Sabirkir (t · c) was closed as delete by Asilvering (t · c) on 08 Apr 2025; see discussion (12 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

02 Apr 2025 – French immigration to Jamaica (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by LibStar (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

13 Apr 2025 – Category:Economists from Washington, D.C. (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

30 Jan 2025 – Andreas Papandreou (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by A.Cython (t · c); start discussion
18 Oct 2024 – Muhammad Yunus (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Niasoh (t · c); start discussion

Requests for comments

27 Mar 2025 – Illegal immigration to the United States (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by RCraig09 (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

13 Feb 2025 – Evolutionary economics (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Econ angoryushev (t · c); see discussion
28 Oct 2024 – Nayib Bukele (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by PizzaKing13 (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

15 Apr 2025 – Deportation in the second presidency of Donald Trump (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Deportation in the second Trump administration by ElijahPepe (t · c); see discussion
14 Apr 2025 – Trump's Liberation Day tariffs (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Trump tariff announcement by Sirfurboy (t · c); see discussion
11 Apr 2025 – State Socialism (Germany) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to German socialism by 2804:14C:5BB1:9473:42D2:CFD5:6B38:4EBB (t · c); see discussion
08 Apr 2025 – Tariffs in the second Trump administration (talk · edit · hist) move request to Global trade war (2025–present) by Dasomm (t · c) was not moved by Dasomm (t · c) on 09 Apr 2025; see discussion
06 Apr 2025 – Donald Trump's Liberation Day speech (talk · edit · hist) move request to Executive Order 14527 by Satkara (t · c) was withdrawn; see discussion
06 Apr 2025 – Donald Trump administration's Mar-a-Lago Accord (talk · edit · hist) move request to Mar-a-Lago Accord by Quickdrew (t · c) was moved; see discussion
05 Apr 2025 – 2025 stock market crash (talk · edit · hist) move request to 2025 stock market decline by Mb2437 (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
04 Apr 2025 – 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico (talk · edit · hist) move request to United States–Canada–Mexico trade war by LunaEclipse (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
31 Mar 2025 – Economy of the State of Palestine (talk · edit · hist) move request to Economy of Palestine by Mason7512 (t · c) was moved to Economy of Palestine (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 15 Apr 2025; see discussion

Articles to be merged

06 Apr 2025 – Lipstick effect (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Lipstick index by CX Zoom (t · c); see discussion
06 Apr 2025 – Lipstick index (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Lipstick effect by CX Zoom (t · c); see discussion
17 Mar 2025 – Stone industry (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Mining by Opolito (t · c); see discussion
11 Mar 2025 – Megacorpstate (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Hypercyclic morphogenesis by Thebiguglyalien (t · c); see discussion
04 Mar 2025 – Economy of the African Union (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Economy of Africa by Feminist (t · c); see discussion
21 Feb 2025 – Varian Rule (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Trickle-down fashion by Daask (t · c); see discussion
13 Feb 2025 – Fair value accounting and the subprime mortgage crisis (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Accounting and the late 2000s financial crisis by Tule-hog (t · c); see discussion
10 Feb 2025 – State prices (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Arrow–Debreu model by Kmfrick (t · c); see discussion
02 Nov 2024 – Great Divergence (inequality) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Causes of income inequality in the United States by Alpha3031 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

24 Mar 2025 – Copper extraction (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Erosiva (t · c); see discussion
30 Dec 2024 – Economic history of the United States (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Lfstevens (t · c); see discussion
21 Oct 2024 – BRICS (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Lan Pee (t · c); see discussion
25 Jun 2024 – Paul Davidson (economist) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Peaceray (t · c); see discussion
29 May 2023 – Supply chain management (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Felix QW (t · c); see discussion
15 Sep 2020 – Poverty threshold (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

14 Apr 2025 – Draft:Steel industry in the United Kingdom (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Moondragon21 (t · c)
14 Apr 2025 – Draft:Purged Cross-Validation (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Dsr02014 (t · c)
13 Apr 2025 – Draft:George E. Halkos (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
13 Apr 2025 – Draft:Meta-Labeling (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Dsr02014 (t · c)
10 Apr 2025 – Draft:Privatisation in Ukraine (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Patrin Bohdan (t · c)
07 Apr 2025 – Draft:Richard Hornbeck (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Captgouda24 (t · c)
06 Apr 2025 – Draft:Combinatorial Purged Cross-Validation (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
05 Apr 2025 – Draft:Deflated Sharpe Ratio (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
02 Apr 2025 – Draft:Modia Butler (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Inovo10 (t · c)
01 Apr 2025 – Draft:Guido Ascari (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JacA12 (t · c)

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Open tasks

Current tasks

This WikiProject section has a backlog that requires the attention of willing editors.
Please remove this notice when the backlog is cleared.

For sources please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Economics/Archive 8#Current tasks.

Help bring Adam Smith to featured article status.
- Visit Talk:Adam Smith for a list of what still needs to be done.
Help bring Geoeconomics to good article status.
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
The Genuine progress indicator article needs to be developed
Resolve Progressive tax dispute: does more progressive tax require less total tax, all else being equal?
Inclusive growth needs information about historical outcomes, measurements, and determinants.
Negative interest on excess reserves and other monetary policy articles need information about rent-seeking and balancing contractionary outcomes
Tax policy and economic inequality in the United States accuracy dispute
Economy of the United States multiple accuracy, NPOV, and WP:COMPREHENSIVE coverage disputes
Unemployment in the United States needs information about inflation targeting, rent-seeking, historical outcomes, and determinants
Universal health care and Single-payer health care need more detailed information about the fiscal impact of inefficient healthcare delivery and lack of preventative care from under-insured populations
Capital gains tax in the United States needs additional information about historical outcomes, implications for growth and unemployment, measurements, and determinants
Expansion of the article on the recent Nobel Prize winner, Jean Tirole should be done. Ifly6 (talk) 04:56, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Bring the Petrodollar article to an acceptable state
Article needs help... Financial intermediary.
Consumer economy needs assessment from an expert in the subject,

Assessing articles

See WikiProject Economics/Assessment for more details.
- Tag the talk page of economics-related articles with {{WikiProject Economics}} if it has not been tagged already.
- Go to Category:Unassessed_Economics_articles and assign a quality rating to articles listed there.
- Go to Category:Unknown-importance Economics articles and assign a priority rating to articles listed there.

Common tasks

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

Participants

To add yourself to the list of project participants, go to the Category:WikiProject Economics participants page, and list your name there.
- Active participants - Census circa April 2010
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ExpertIdeas

A number of economists and psychologists have been invited to comment on articles using a mostly automated process involving User:ExpertIdeasBot, a bot of User:I.yeckehzaare. To help out with the approximately 9000 edit requests, see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics/ExpertIdeas.

Articles

Wiki work statistics

Economics articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		3	4	10			17
FL		2	2				4
GA	2	12	30	48			92
B	28	170	276	284		105	863
C	51	378	717	1,360		556	3,062
Start	13	286	1,058	3,404		2,102	6,863
Stub		65	340	1,704		1,522	3,631
List	14	32	85	172	9	129	441
Category					5,043		5,043
Disambig					41		41
File					62		62
Portal					312		312
Redirect	2	18	62	169	477		728
Template					371		371
NA					34		34
Other				1	154		155
Assessed	110	966	2,574	7,152	6,503	4,414	21,719
Unassessed						115	115
Total	110	966	2,574	7,152	6,503	4,529	21,834
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 71,122			Ω = 4.90

Quality operations

Quality operations: A bot-generated detail log for Economics articles.

Popular pages

Popular pages: A bot-generated list of pageviews, useful for focused cleanup of frequently viewed articles.

The following is for historic interest.

Month	Most viewed	Views/day	Assessment	Importance
January 2015	List of countries by GDP (nominal)	9589	List	Top
February 2015	Gold as an investment	100740	???	???
March 2015	Bitcoin	74527	C	Mid
April 2015	List of countries by GDP (nominal)	8873	List	High
May 2015	John Forbes Nash, Jr.	21655	C	High
June 2015	Quasi-maximum likelihood	40319	Stub	Low
July 2015	Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles	19810	Start	Mid
August 2015	List of countries by GDP (nominal)	6963	List	High
September 2015	List of countries by GDP (nominal)	6639	List	High
October 2015	Stephen Harper	12857	GA	Mid
November 2015	G-20 major economies	8352	B	Mid
December 2015	Bitcoin	6854	C	Mid

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