This page is currently inactive and is retained for
historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump. |
The Business and Economics Forum is a place where Wikipedia contributors with an interest in business or economics can "meet" and discuss issues of importance to the business and economics section of the encyclopedia. Our mission is to improve the quality of the business and economics section, make decisions on policies relevant to this section, encourage active participation by as many contributors as possible, and build a vibrant community with a pool of expertise that will match any organization, corporate or university.
If you have an interest in these matters, please contribute to the forum, and don't forget to bookmark this page so you can watch for future discussions.
The overall Wikipedia community has recognized some of our articles as worthy of being feature articles. They are:
In economics:
In Finance:
(none yet)
In Marketing:
In Human Resource Management:
(none yet)
In Management
In Accounting:
(none yet)
In Information Technology Management:
In International Trade and International Economics:
In Business Law
In Production and Manufacturing:
(none yet)
In Business Ethics, Political Economy, and Philosophy of Business/Economics:
(none yet)
Macro-economic overviews
If you know of an article that you feel could become a feature article in the future, list it below. Give a brief explanation of why you think it deserves this status. If you agree or disagree, your comments are welcome here. Detailed suggestions would be better put on the article's talk page. When we feel they are ready, we can list them on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates.
I decided to post this here before subjecting it to the feature article review panel :) I'm fairly new to Wikipedia so I'm not exactly sure it's suitable. I didn't create the page, but I expanded it greatly from Pgreenfinch's original article. Psychobabble
If you have come across Wikipedia business or economics articles that don't seem quite right, but are outside your area of expertise, list them here. Briefly explain why you have listed them. If you have expertise in any of the articles listed here, please help us by fixing them.
If you know of important business or economics topics that still don't have articles devoted to them, add them to this list. If you are able to, please create any of these articles. Any new articles should be added to one of the lists at the end of this page (so that people can find the article).
In Economics:
In Finance:
In Marketing:
In Management:
In Human Resource Management:
In Accounting:
In Information Technology Management:
In International Trade and Economics:
In Business Law:
In Production and Manufacturing:
In Business Ethics, Political Economy and Philosophy of Business/Economics:
There are many stub articles that need to be expanded, too many to be listed here for now. But please add to any stub article you come across : every sentence helps.
Accounting
Finance
If you have suggestions on how we can improve the business and economics section of Wikipedia, mention them here. Please be specific. Comments about each suggestion are also welcome. Please, no general rants or raves.
This topic is now being persued at Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards. The Forum for Encyclopedic Standards, a new voluntary association, is getting started on Wiki with a mission related somewhat to that of the Business and Economics Forum. Anyone interested should take a look. Thanks, 172 03:23, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I noticed that of the economics related featured articles, four have no references: Economics - Only external links, many good ones, but none properly formatted as references Euro - Only external links and “articles” London congestion charge - Only external links Labour economics - none at all! I think we can do a lot better than that. Please help by at least going through the external links and using them to fact check the above articles, then properly format them as references. Thanks - Taxman 18:53, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
If you have noticed a business or economics article listed on the votes for deletion page, and you feel additional input would be beneficial, list the article here along with the date.
A question arrises about the best way to structure the new category system: Should a root category include all the articles in one of its sub-categories? I've looked at the way others have done it and there is no consistency. For example, should Welfare economics and Gini coefficient be included in only the welfare economics category, or in both the welfare economics category and the microeconomics category. (Maybe they should be in the economics category as well?) Do we make decisions on an article-by-article basis, or do we set a consistent policy? I am starting to add category tags to the business articles and for now I am going to make the first two levels of categories inclusive, but all further levels exclusive. That is, the business category will contain all the articles in its subcategories. These subcategories, which include [sub-category:marketing], [sub-category:finance], [sub-category:management], etc, will also include all the articles in their subcategories. For example, [sub-category:Marketing] will include all the articles in [sub-sub-category:Marketing research], [sub-sub-category:Pricing], etc. Articles in the sub-sub-sub categories will not be included in the sub-sub-categories. I expect this structure to result in about 1200 articles in the business category, between 100 and 300 in each of the subcategories, and less than 100 in each of the sub-sub-categories and sub-sub-sub-categories. Any comments or suggestions? mydogategodshat 22:53, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
And here is another question. Do we keep the old "list based" system of navigation or the old "footers"? We could probably remove both once the category system is complete. Any comments? mydogategodshat 23:19, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
As far as categories and subcategores,
Wikipedia:Categorization states that:
I think this policy should be enforced here; I don't think an entry should be tagged cat:Business if it is more accurately tagged cat:Finance (Finance is a subcat of Business). Feco 23:37, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Several times now, an economics article has been listed as a candidate for feature article status, and the issue of diagram colour and style has come up. Some low resolution or black and white monitors do not display the diagrams in the same way as other monitors. How can we solve this problem?
exerpt from supply and demand
Should the business and economics forum get involved in resolving disputes between contributors? When a postKeynesian and a monetarist are engaged in a heated dispute, is there any value in having a third party involved that is familiar with the issue?
The closing section of many of our articles need to be cleaned up. Some have 1) a See also section, 2) a References or other sources section, 3) a related article lists section, 4) a "footer" section, and 5) a category section. Some of these are Wiki boxes, some are HTML charts, and some are text lists. What can we do to clean this up?
The project to use infoboxes to provide basic stats on companies came to an abrupt halt when we started talking about maintaining and updating the stats. See the discussion here. Can anyone think of a way of making this idea work?
If you have recently created a new article or done a major rewrite on an existing economics or business article, you may list it here (along with the date of editing). This makes it easy for others to find out about these changes and make additions or corrections. If you have comments (positive or negative) about any of these articles, you are encouraged to give them at either the article's talk page or at the author's talk page.
Wikipedia has few rules. This encourages free expression and diversity of style. The guidelines that follow are not intended to be anything more than recommendations. It is up to each contributor to decide whether to follow the guidelines or not. For a business and economics guideline to be listed here, it must first be discussed elsewhere on this page (the Business and Economics Forum page). The discussion that leads up to each recommendation should be archived on the talk page and a link provided. If you agree or disagree with a guideline, your comments are welcome.
Most well written articles start with the basics and build in complexity with each additional section. This allows you to write for a range of potential readers. A good heuristic is to write the first paragraph as if you are talking to your grandmother (if you are a grandmother write as if you are talking to your grandchildren). Use simple everyday terms and avoid complicating details. In the middle section write for the average educated reader with only elementary training in economics or business theory. In the last section write for the economics or business specialist. It is in this section that calculus, stats, and advanced theory is appropriate. The length of each section will very depending on the subject matter and the intent of the writer.
Not all topics are well suited to this "ascending difficulty model". An alternative approach is to write more than one article (for example, a basic article, a practical article, and a theory article), and provide links between them. An example of this method can be seen in logit (theory) and logit analysis (in marketing) (practical).
The discussion of this topic can be seen at Wikipedia talk: The Business and Economics Forum#Who reads this stuff anyway?
The following is a set of lists that contain the business and economics articles. Using them, will enable you to get to any business or economics article with just two clicks.
It has long been my view that there is no economic process or problem that cannot be put in clear language - can not be made accessible to the literate and interested reader. Such effect does not, however, justify error or oversimplification. John Kenneth Galbraith "A Journey Through Economic Time"
There's a discussion taking place Wikipedia Talk:Browse by Category about developing a new portal that may be linked off the main page for Economics, Business and Finance. If anyone has any thoughts, join us. We don't want to recreate work already done, but it seems like these subjects could benefit from more organization. -- Ronreed 03:47, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
Many articles in Category:Business, Category:Economics and Category:Finance would be better in subcats (but I haven't checked for a while. Is anyone interested in helping with this? Maurreen (talk) 18:18, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
Please participate in the newly created WikiProject Business and Economics and help in improving business & economics related topics. pamri 12:35, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
I'm a bit astonished to find a forum with the last entry from 2005. I'm interested in discussing projects in business and economics and just published the new article on economy. I would be glad to hear from members here who are still active.-- Jörg Sutter 17:19, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
This page is currently inactive and is retained for
historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump. |
The Business and Economics Forum is a place where Wikipedia contributors with an interest in business or economics can "meet" and discuss issues of importance to the business and economics section of the encyclopedia. Our mission is to improve the quality of the business and economics section, make decisions on policies relevant to this section, encourage active participation by as many contributors as possible, and build a vibrant community with a pool of expertise that will match any organization, corporate or university.
If you have an interest in these matters, please contribute to the forum, and don't forget to bookmark this page so you can watch for future discussions.
The overall Wikipedia community has recognized some of our articles as worthy of being feature articles. They are:
In economics:
In Finance:
(none yet)
In Marketing:
In Human Resource Management:
(none yet)
In Management
In Accounting:
(none yet)
In Information Technology Management:
In International Trade and International Economics:
In Business Law
In Production and Manufacturing:
(none yet)
In Business Ethics, Political Economy, and Philosophy of Business/Economics:
(none yet)
Macro-economic overviews
If you know of an article that you feel could become a feature article in the future, list it below. Give a brief explanation of why you think it deserves this status. If you agree or disagree, your comments are welcome here. Detailed suggestions would be better put on the article's talk page. When we feel they are ready, we can list them on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates.
I decided to post this here before subjecting it to the feature article review panel :) I'm fairly new to Wikipedia so I'm not exactly sure it's suitable. I didn't create the page, but I expanded it greatly from Pgreenfinch's original article. Psychobabble
If you have come across Wikipedia business or economics articles that don't seem quite right, but are outside your area of expertise, list them here. Briefly explain why you have listed them. If you have expertise in any of the articles listed here, please help us by fixing them.
If you know of important business or economics topics that still don't have articles devoted to them, add them to this list. If you are able to, please create any of these articles. Any new articles should be added to one of the lists at the end of this page (so that people can find the article).
In Economics:
In Finance:
In Marketing:
In Management:
In Human Resource Management:
In Accounting:
In Information Technology Management:
In International Trade and Economics:
In Business Law:
In Production and Manufacturing:
In Business Ethics, Political Economy and Philosophy of Business/Economics:
There are many stub articles that need to be expanded, too many to be listed here for now. But please add to any stub article you come across : every sentence helps.
Accounting
Finance
If you have suggestions on how we can improve the business and economics section of Wikipedia, mention them here. Please be specific. Comments about each suggestion are also welcome. Please, no general rants or raves.
This topic is now being persued at Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards. The Forum for Encyclopedic Standards, a new voluntary association, is getting started on Wiki with a mission related somewhat to that of the Business and Economics Forum. Anyone interested should take a look. Thanks, 172 03:23, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I noticed that of the economics related featured articles, four have no references: Economics - Only external links, many good ones, but none properly formatted as references Euro - Only external links and “articles” London congestion charge - Only external links Labour economics - none at all! I think we can do a lot better than that. Please help by at least going through the external links and using them to fact check the above articles, then properly format them as references. Thanks - Taxman 18:53, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
If you have noticed a business or economics article listed on the votes for deletion page, and you feel additional input would be beneficial, list the article here along with the date.
A question arrises about the best way to structure the new category system: Should a root category include all the articles in one of its sub-categories? I've looked at the way others have done it and there is no consistency. For example, should Welfare economics and Gini coefficient be included in only the welfare economics category, or in both the welfare economics category and the microeconomics category. (Maybe they should be in the economics category as well?) Do we make decisions on an article-by-article basis, or do we set a consistent policy? I am starting to add category tags to the business articles and for now I am going to make the first two levels of categories inclusive, but all further levels exclusive. That is, the business category will contain all the articles in its subcategories. These subcategories, which include [sub-category:marketing], [sub-category:finance], [sub-category:management], etc, will also include all the articles in their subcategories. For example, [sub-category:Marketing] will include all the articles in [sub-sub-category:Marketing research], [sub-sub-category:Pricing], etc. Articles in the sub-sub-sub categories will not be included in the sub-sub-categories. I expect this structure to result in about 1200 articles in the business category, between 100 and 300 in each of the subcategories, and less than 100 in each of the sub-sub-categories and sub-sub-sub-categories. Any comments or suggestions? mydogategodshat 22:53, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
And here is another question. Do we keep the old "list based" system of navigation or the old "footers"? We could probably remove both once the category system is complete. Any comments? mydogategodshat 23:19, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
As far as categories and subcategores,
Wikipedia:Categorization states that:
I think this policy should be enforced here; I don't think an entry should be tagged cat:Business if it is more accurately tagged cat:Finance (Finance is a subcat of Business). Feco 23:37, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Several times now, an economics article has been listed as a candidate for feature article status, and the issue of diagram colour and style has come up. Some low resolution or black and white monitors do not display the diagrams in the same way as other monitors. How can we solve this problem?
exerpt from supply and demand
Should the business and economics forum get involved in resolving disputes between contributors? When a postKeynesian and a monetarist are engaged in a heated dispute, is there any value in having a third party involved that is familiar with the issue?
The closing section of many of our articles need to be cleaned up. Some have 1) a See also section, 2) a References or other sources section, 3) a related article lists section, 4) a "footer" section, and 5) a category section. Some of these are Wiki boxes, some are HTML charts, and some are text lists. What can we do to clean this up?
The project to use infoboxes to provide basic stats on companies came to an abrupt halt when we started talking about maintaining and updating the stats. See the discussion here. Can anyone think of a way of making this idea work?
If you have recently created a new article or done a major rewrite on an existing economics or business article, you may list it here (along with the date of editing). This makes it easy for others to find out about these changes and make additions or corrections. If you have comments (positive or negative) about any of these articles, you are encouraged to give them at either the article's talk page or at the author's talk page.
Wikipedia has few rules. This encourages free expression and diversity of style. The guidelines that follow are not intended to be anything more than recommendations. It is up to each contributor to decide whether to follow the guidelines or not. For a business and economics guideline to be listed here, it must first be discussed elsewhere on this page (the Business and Economics Forum page). The discussion that leads up to each recommendation should be archived on the talk page and a link provided. If you agree or disagree with a guideline, your comments are welcome.
Most well written articles start with the basics and build in complexity with each additional section. This allows you to write for a range of potential readers. A good heuristic is to write the first paragraph as if you are talking to your grandmother (if you are a grandmother write as if you are talking to your grandchildren). Use simple everyday terms and avoid complicating details. In the middle section write for the average educated reader with only elementary training in economics or business theory. In the last section write for the economics or business specialist. It is in this section that calculus, stats, and advanced theory is appropriate. The length of each section will very depending on the subject matter and the intent of the writer.
Not all topics are well suited to this "ascending difficulty model". An alternative approach is to write more than one article (for example, a basic article, a practical article, and a theory article), and provide links between them. An example of this method can be seen in logit (theory) and logit analysis (in marketing) (practical).
The discussion of this topic can be seen at Wikipedia talk: The Business and Economics Forum#Who reads this stuff anyway?
The following is a set of lists that contain the business and economics articles. Using them, will enable you to get to any business or economics article with just two clicks.
It has long been my view that there is no economic process or problem that cannot be put in clear language - can not be made accessible to the literate and interested reader. Such effect does not, however, justify error or oversimplification. John Kenneth Galbraith "A Journey Through Economic Time"
There's a discussion taking place Wikipedia Talk:Browse by Category about developing a new portal that may be linked off the main page for Economics, Business and Finance. If anyone has any thoughts, join us. We don't want to recreate work already done, but it seems like these subjects could benefit from more organization. -- Ronreed 03:47, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
Many articles in Category:Business, Category:Economics and Category:Finance would be better in subcats (but I haven't checked for a while. Is anyone interested in helping with this? Maurreen (talk) 18:18, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
Please participate in the newly created WikiProject Business and Economics and help in improving business & economics related topics. pamri 12:35, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
I'm a bit astonished to find a forum with the last entry from 2005. I'm interested in discussing projects in business and economics and just published the new article on economy. I would be glad to hear from members here who are still active.-- Jörg Sutter 17:19, 3 February 2007 (UTC)