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 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.

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Archived :: 2011 and before ::

Article alerts

Did you know

• 27 Nov 2025 – Hajime Kawakami (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Jon698 (t · c); see discussion
• 27 Nov 2025 – Andreas Papandreou (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by A.Cython (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 15 Dec 2025 – Gaza imports (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Paprikaiser (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 07 Dec 2025 – Immunocapitalism (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by WeirdNAnnoyed (t · c); see discussion (7 participants; relisted)
• 06 Dec 2025 – Mar-a-Lago Accord (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Gnomingstuff (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 13 Dec 2025; see discussion (8 participants)
• 05 Dec 2025 – Thirteen Articles for the Settlement of Qinghai Affairs (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Amigao (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 14 Dec 2025; see discussion (3 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

• 13 Dec 2025 – Ruben Aganbegyan (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Xzkdeng (t · c) was deproded by ~2025-40435-92 (t · c) on 15 Dec 2025
• 10 Dec 2025 – Bare minimum Monday (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Reywas92 (t · c) was deproded by GobsPint (t · c) (author) on 14 Dec 2025
• 07 Dec 2025 – Rocket science (finance) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by ~2025-39043-99 (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

• 13 Dec 2025 – Category:Industry by sector and country (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Dec 2025 – Category:Industry by region (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Dec 2025 – Category:Industry by city (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Nov 2025 – Category:Ethnic Armenian philanthropists (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion

Templates for discussion

• 06 Dec 2025 – Template:Mario Draghi sidebar (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by WikiCleanerMan (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 10 Dec 2025 – GLB+Act (talk · edit · hist) →Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act was RfDed by Steel1943 (t · c); see discussion

Files for discussion

• 09 Dec 2025 – File:Chittaprosad-Hungry-Bengal-sketch1.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Bengal famine of 1943) was FfDed by JayCubby (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 17 Sep 2025 – Dammam No. 7 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Left guide (t · c); start discussion
• 09 Aug 2025 – Stephen Miran (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by ElijahPepe (t · c); start discussion

Good article reassessments

• 23 Nov 2025 – Francis Amasa Walker (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 04 Dec 2025 – Lawrence Summers (talk · edit · hist) move request to Larry Summers by Mb2437 (t · c) was moved to Larry Summers (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 15 Dec 2025; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 07 Nov 2025 – Copenhagen Consensus (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Copenhagen Consensus Center by Viriditas (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Aug 2025 – Peak debt (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Growth in a Time of Debt by Bearian (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 04 Dec 2025 – Gold (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by ReyHahn (t · c); see discussion
• 21 May 2025 – List of regions of Baltic States by Human Development Index (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 197.23.51.219 (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
• 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
• 05 Jan 2021 – Poverty threshold (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Tom.Reding (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 16 Dec 2025 – Draft:Giuseppe Zadra (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by James Anderson 101 (t · c)
• 12 Dec 2025 – Draft:Anthony Matthew Tang (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by TrishTang (t · c)
• 12 Dec 2025 – Draft:Imraan Valodia (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by OceanicManta (t · c)
• 09 Dec 2025 – Draft:Eric Renault (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Julomoppet (t · c)
• 08 Dec 2025 – Draft:Ithaca Green New Deal (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Uarism (t · c)
• 30 Nov 2025 – Draft:Sherman Financial Group (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Could I Do This? (t · c)
• 14 Dec 2025 – Draft:Erdal Yalçin (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by ErdalYalcin76 (t · c) was declined by MCE89 (t · c) on 14 Dec 2025
• 08 Dec 2025 – Draft:Oleksiy Plotnikov (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by OP Ukraine (t · c) was declined by I2Overcome (t · c) on 17 Dec 2025
• 07 Dec 2025 – Draft:Hyperinflation in Indonesia (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by GEMNghiB5B (t · c) was accepted to Hyperinflation in Indonesia (talk · edit · hist) by GTrang (t · c) on 16 Dec 2025

Open tasks

Current tasks

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)
• 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
• If you would like to display the project's userbox, place {{User WikiProject Economics}} on your user page, like this:

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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
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	5	10			17
FL		2	2				4
A			1				1
GA	2	10	27	50		1	90
B	31	171	323	377		13	915
C	53	408	883	1,938		51	3,333
Start	11	306	1,353	5,413		99	7,182
Stub		69	505	3,019		12	3,605
List	14	38	120	275		3	450
Category					5,845		5,845
Disambig					39		39
File					66		66
Portal					312		312
Redirect	2	22	75	200	506		805
Template					379		379
NA					43		43
Other		1		1	186		188
Assessed	113	1,029	3,294	11,283	7,376	179	23,274
Unassessed		1	1	2		39	43
Total	113	1,030	3,295	11,285	7,376	218	23,317
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 73,003			Ω = 4.88

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

(view | edit | 2014)

Featured content

Featured articles

In order of importance rating:

• Cross of Gold speech
• Richard Cantillon
• Akhtar Hameed Khan
• Economy of the Han Dynasty
• Economy of the Iroquois
• Panic of 1907
• Tulip mania
• Wage reform in the Soviet Union, 1956–1962
• FairTax
• Harold Innis
• C. D. Howe

Featured lists

• List of circulating currencies
• List of Nobel Memorial Prize 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

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