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Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Business and economics articles by quality statistics

The scope of this project is to provide guidelines on topics related to Business and Economics and provide a space, where users can collaborate to improve related articles.

How to Assess an Article

Assessing an article is easy!

1. Go to the category by clicking on Unassessed in the assessment box at the top of this page. You will see a list of articles in need of assessment.
2. Click on an article link - this should take you to the talk page
3. Click on the "Article" tab - look at the article and make an assessment
4. Click on the "Discussion" tab - this should return you to the talk page
5. Click the "Edit this Page" tab. You will see {{WikiProject Business & Economics| class= | importance= }} at the top of the page.
6. Fill in the tag's attributes
   1. Fill in class= using one of these values: Stub, Start, B, GA, A, FA. (Before assessing, please note the following definitions:)
      • GA - use this value only if the article is currently listed as a Good Article.
      • A - use this value only if you feel the article is well written, is properly referenced, and has lots of content.
      • FA - use this value only if the article is currently listed as a Featured Article.
      • For more information on rating see Assessment Scale
   2. Fill in importance= using one of these values: Top, High, Mid, Low.
7. You're done! (unless you want to go back to Unassessed and do another assessment) -- we hope you will!

Note: You can also put the tag {{WikiProject Business & Economics| class= | importance= }} on any business or economics article you come across that hasn't yet been associated with this project. This will add it to the list of unassessed topics.

Assessment Standards

Content Standards

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FA Criteria

A featured article exemplifies our very best work and features professional standards of writing and presentation. In addition to meeting the requirements for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes:

1. It is well written, comprehensive, factually accurate, neutral and stable.
   • (a) "Well written" means that the prose is compelling, even brilliant.
   • (b) "Comprehensive" means that the article does not neglect major facts and details.
   • (c) "Factually accurate" means that claims are attributable to reliable sources and accurately present the related body of published knowledge. Claims are supported with specific evidence and external citations; this involves the provision of a "References" section in which sources are set out, complemented by inline citations for quotations and for any material that is challenged or likely to be challenged. See the attribution policy for information on when and how extensively references are provided, and citing sources for suggestions on formatting references; for articles with footnotes or endnotes, the meta:cite format is recommended.
   • (d) "Neutral" means that the article presents views fairly and without bias (see neutral point of view); however, articles need not give minority views equal coverage (see undue weight).
   • (e) "Stable" means that the article is not the subject of ongoing edit wars and that its content does not change significantly from day to day; vandalism reverts and improvements based on reviewers' suggestions do not apply.
2. It complies with the standards set out in the manual of style and relevant WikiProjects, including:
   • (a) a concise lead section that summarizes the entire topic and prepares the reader for the higher level of detail in the subsequent sections;
   • (b) a proper system of hierarchical headings; and
   • (c) a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents (see section help).
3. It should have images if they are appropriate to the subject, with succinct captions and acceptable copyright status. If fair use images are used, they must meet the criteria for fair use images and be labeled accordingly.
4. It is of appropriate length, staying focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).

Participants

Participants add your name below:

1. Parker007
2. akronpow
3. Crocodile Punter
4. Ukrained
5. Trade2tradewell
6. Mike Searson
7. SueHay
8. HyDeckar
9. Egfrank
10. jenniferpowell
11. LaraLove
12. Mtmelendez

Suggestions

Participants of assessing please feel free to suggest some important articles you have come across:

Business plan

This is a gateway article that should lead people to further Wikipedia topics on planning, business analysis, assessment techniques, etc. With the help of User: SueHay I've just finished editing an expanded outline for the page, but it desparately needs citations, copy editing, appropriate cross references and the like. It is not really a one or two person project. I'd also recommend downgrading it to "Start" status for now. Egfrank 09:54, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Supply and Demand

• Supply and demand (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Can't think of a more important economics article. Λυδαcιτγ 23:35, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

From the above criteria, what do you think needs to be improved in this article? --Parker007 23:55, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Focus and comprehensiveness. The sections of the article are isolated from each other — 16 second-level headings and only 2 third-level ones. They address isolated topics without tying them into a cohesive model (for example, as of a minute ago there were two separate history sections). Because of this, some topics seem to be left out. For example, although the application of the model to labor is discussed, the effects of minimum wage laws are not mentioned. Λυδαcιτγ 00:18, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It use to be a FA, See FAR archive. The main reason was lack of citations. Morphh ^(talk) 0:27, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

:Comment. Lack of inline references and mixing reference section with external links is certainly a ground for defeaturing. In addition, there are small issues that should be addressed, like excessive bolding, or stub-sections 'Empirical estimation, Application in Macroeconomics'.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  17:04, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There are 5 references at the bottom which don't have inline citations. After which sentences do you think those references can be incorporated as inline citations? The references have external links also. I believe http://books.google.com/ has an online version we can see? I am sure you all know how to make inline citations, but just a refresher here: <ref> then the reference </ref>. In order to use the same citations again, you have to go to the original citation and instead of <ref> you have to apply a name <ref name = Supply>, thus you can use that same citation again by copying and pasting <ref name = Supply/> after any other sentence. --Parker007 00:49, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian Equity Firms

User:Parker007/Canadian_equity_firms I need help to make this list complete from http://www.cvca.ca/membership/directory/full_members.aspx For right now just copy and paste. Then before moving to main space I will "un-plagarize" it. Would appreciate help. Thank you. --Parker007 00:51, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Economy of Ukraine

Well, I've rated this article as of mid-importance. But several reasons may be provided for its importance (such as unique geo-economical location of the country and rapid economy growth). And it's MUCH more important than Canadian equity firms :). Wishes, Ukrained 12:59, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, please, can the Business and Economics experts of this page please help me with the website for ISTIA? Someone here put ISTIA in the Business and Economics work group (after which point I joined).

ISTIA is a new agency designed to help countries, especially poor countries, to improve their globalization data, especially trade-in-services data, and FDI data.

I had a disagreement with a few users over another website, and they figured out that I am the Executive Director of ISTIA, and that I created that page, and now they have marked it for deletion, on the basis that I am "self advertising".

ISTIA is the only agency working in this field, in fact, I left the UN to found it. ISTIA has a board of directors consisting of UN officials, WTO officials, and national government officials of developing country officials.

The ISTIA website is a valid entry on Wikipedia, otherwise, the Bus and Eco Wikiproject wouldn't have entered it in their list of working sites. This was done before I joined, and, was in fact why I became aware of, and then joined, this group.

The people who seek to delete this aren't experts in trade statisticis, or FDI statistics, or trade policy. They don't therefore understand that this is a site describing an agency which is unique in the world, and doing something groundbreaking. It isn't a personal website in the least sense of the word.

Please, would you help monitor ISTIA from these attacks, which are being carried out by two administrators, Irishguy and TheBehnam.

Thanks in advance.