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Ernest Emerson FAR

Ernest Emerson has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:13, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Requesting comments on category deletion review

I've just asked for a review on the recent decision to delete Category:American entrepreneurs and possibly Category:entrepreneurs. If interested in the matter the discussion is at Misplaced Pages:Deletion review/Log/2007 October 20#Category:American entrepreneurs. - Wikidemo 17:27, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Unit price

Can someone remove the speedy deletion tag on Unit price? Some cowboy put a speedy deletion tag on the article immediately after I started the page. It took me a few more minutes more than that to get content into the article. Now the article is a stub with a decent amount of content in it, and so a removal of the speedy deletion tag is appropriate. I would do so myself, however, the tag says that the person who started the page ought not to remove the tag.EECavazos 07:02, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Artices drafted from list of missing articles

In the last few days I started some articles listed as missing and needed. These articles give just the basic information and could use more content. They are as follows:

Stay well. EECavazos 22:03, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

You might want to consider using a redirect for some of the topics on Skysmith's list rather than creating new articles. For instance, dividend is mainly about common stock dividends, and Bills payable and Bills receivable are, I think, older terminology for accounts payable and accounts receivable. Some terms might belong in Wiktionary -- such as Unit price -- unless you think there's enough material for an encyclopedia article. Just some ideas to think about :-) You've made a nice start on those articles! --Busy Stubber 19:31, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! I noticed they had a lot of terms in the list that have articles already created, but under a different name such as Ask price or Arms-Length Bargaining and so I created redirects for those. If someone has time, could they merge Common stock dividend to Dividend? The Dividend article makes few to no distinctions between common stock and the several types of preferred stock.EECavazos 19:56, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Re-assessments?

How do we request pages be re-assessed? I'm thinking specifically of the Liquidation page which, to me, looks like it deserves more than a Start-class rating. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AnthonyUK (talk • contribs) 14:58, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I changed the rating to B. If you see other ratings that look wrong, you can change them. Ratings don't always keep up with changes in the articles. Projects use the same rating system. Thanks for your help! --Busy Stubber 18:06, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Notice of List articles

Page(s) related to this project have been created and/or added to one of the Misplaced Pages:Contents subpages (not by me).

This note is to let you know, so that experts in the field can expand them and check them for accuracy, and so that they can be added to any watchlists/tasklists, and have any appropriate project banners added, etc. Thanks. --Quiddity 19:58, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

These lists give the word "basic" a whole new meaning! There's also list of economics topics floating around. Could we somehow make use of categories rather than trying to keep categories AND lists reasonably clean? Does anyone have any idea what the criteria are for including topics in these lists? --Busy Stubber 23:57, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
The Transhumanist explained his method of creation in point 3 at User talk:Nexus Seven/Archive#can I help. I've started a thread detailing a few concerns at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Lists of basic topics#Overlap with portals and other concerns, please discuss there. Thanks. --Quiddity 01:44, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Strategy dynamics

Being new to this, apologies if I get the etiquette wrong here. I have just looked at the 'strategy dynamics' page, and feel it needs developing. I have explained the issue on the topic's discussion page, and have some substantial content to propose.

Kim warren (talk) 11:13, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Articles with their notability questioned

Hello,

I am posting here a list of articles with notability questions that are assigned to the Business & Economics project, per request by User:Gavin.collins. You might want to have a look at these articles and check whether they meet the notability criteria.

Articles appear in the list below because they have been tagged with ({{notability}} or {{importance}}, and hence are listed in Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability and its subcategories. The data is based on a snapshot from Oct 18, and may partially be outdated. I have included the months February 2007 - September 2007 only (all January articles have been sorted in the meantime, and the October data is incomplete).

If you have questions regarding the list, feel free to post a message on the talk page of the Notability wikiproject or on my personal talk page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:23, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

February 2007

Updated --Gavin Collins (talk) 09:47, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

March 2007

Updated --Gavin Collins (talk) 13:50, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

April 2007

Updated --Gavin Collins (talk) 14:35, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

May 2007

Updated --Gavin Collins (talk) 09:01, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

June 2007

July 2007

August 2007

September 2007

Comments re Articles with their notability questioned

How do we tackle this? Clearly, some articles have been corrected, either by deletion or redirecting to other articles. We could work on this here, a user sub-page, or a sub-page of this project. - Mtmelendez 18:00, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

The list is a month old -- not sure why it's being posted here now. Can we get a current list? --Busy Stubber (talk) 04:12, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
I have removed those articles which have already been deleted, so we don't need to wait for an update. There are not that many, so we may be able to deal with them quickly. If we have a look at each one, and do the following:
  • Delete any articles that are obviously spam using speedy deletion;
  • Put a note after each article as to which project it falls under, e.g. Economics, Finance, Companies and of course ourselves). Some of the foreign companies will probably need to be reassigned to a Wikiproject relating to their country, e.g. WP:FINLAND;
  • Attach the correct template relating to the relevant project, e.g. Template:WikiProject Companies, and remove Template:Business;
  • Lastly, we will then move responsibility to the respective project by leaving a message on their talk pages explaining how WikiProject Notability would like us to deal with these articles.
I think this will enable use to deal with these articles very quickly. If anyone knows how to format these lists into tables, that would be useful bit of editing as well. --Gavin Collins (talk) 11:32, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Core topics collaboration

Hi, I wanted to mentioned that the current Core Topics collaboration is an article tracked by this project, personal finance. The collaboration has not been too active lately, but the goal is worthy - to improve some of our weaker articles on our most important topics. Any help you can give would be much appreciated. Thanks! Walkerma (talk) 05:46, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Carl G. Fisher FAR

Carl G. Fisher has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Epbr123 (talk) 14:06, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Dutch Masters (cigar)

A tag has been placed on Dutch Masters (cigar), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing no content to the reader. Please note that external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article don't count as content. Please see Misplaced Pages:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. TomStar81 (Talk) 01:30, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Notability of Dutch Masters (cigar)

A tag has been placed on Dutch Masters (cigar) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Misplaced Pages guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. TomStar81 (Talk) 01:30, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Backlog at WP:AR1

Hello WP:Business. If you like to create articles, might I suggest a trip over to our list of business/economics articles requested for more than a year? There's a rather lengthy backlog to be cleared in this subject area. Best, sh¤y 20:58, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Greenspun illustration project: requests now open

Dear Wikimedians,

This is a (belated) announcement that requests are now being taken for illustrations to be created for the Philip Greenspun illustration project (PGIP).

The aim of the project is to create and improve illustrations on Wikimedia projects. You can help by identifying which important articles or concepts are missing illustrations (diagrams) that could make them a lot easier to understand. Requests should be made on this page: Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project/Requests

If there's a topic area you know a lot about or are involved with as a Wikiproject, why not conduct a review to see which illustrations are missing and needed for that topic? Existing content can be checked by using Mayflower to search Wikimedia Commons, or use the Free Image Search Tool to quickly check for images of a given topic in other-language projects.

The community suggestions will be used to shape the final list, which will be finalised to 50 specific requests for Round 1, due to start in January. People will be able to make suggestions for the duration of the project, not just in the lead-up to Round 1.

thanks, pfctdayelise (talk) 13:11, 13 December 2007 (UTC) (Project coordinator)

List of top United States business schools

There is debate going on at WP:FLC about List of top United States business schools. We could use some feedback.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 19:08, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Request assistance in price of oil article

Could someone with a firm understanding of global economics please have a look at this section and help rewrite it to be more meaningful? Right now the claims made are far too simplistic and appear to be original research. Discussion of the section is here. Thanks. NJGW (talk) 17:10, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Adjust for inflation

Can I trouble someone from this project to provide a monetary figure after adjusting for inflation? In the article Iowa class battleship I provided a source stating that Iowa's cost US $125 million per ship, but that was back in WWII. Would some one be able to provide a cost equivilant today? TomStar81 (Talk) 06:26, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

New Sub-Project Proposal - Risk

Hi everyone,

I just thought I'd alert project members of my proposal for a sub-project in the same vein as the projects for Economics and Finance. Risk is a pretty expansive area - taking into account all the myriad categories and subcategories there must be in the region of 1000 articles, and barely any, if indeed any are of a high quality. I reckon its time to change that given how important risk is to the business world - very and increasingly so, for those who somehow don't know. As a risk management student I'm not impressed at current coverage here, so would like to improve things.

My work's language parameters somehow block out most of the proposals page so I can't add it for a few hours, but thought I'd get thoughts from here anyway. Below is what will be on the projects page in about 5 hours time when I get home (minus the Proposals page formatting, obviously). Caissa's DeathAngel (talk) 16:09, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

I welcome any questions or comments. And, of course, willing participants. 

Risk

Description : This would be a sub-project ofMisplaced Pages:WikiProject Business and Economics, however I feel its scope is sufficient to warrant a project of its own in the style of Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Economics and Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Finance. There are only 60 articles in the main risk category, but there are also 8 subcategories, most with other subcategories, totalling several hundred articles. This project would cover all of these. This includes things like areas of risk management such as auditing, business continuity, insurance and health and safety, legal standards and guidelines, statistical instruments with which risks are measured, concepts and theories of risk, etc. 

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Caissa's DeathAngel (talk) 16:09, 23 January 2008 (UTC) 
Comments
There are many articles on these and related subjects, but only a minute number are of a high quality, and given the increasing importance in the business world of risk, I sincerely believe Misplaced Pages should have quality articles on these areas. Due to the increasing academia on the subject, coordination and effort should be all that is required to sort serious issues such as lack of sources. I am alerting Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Business and Economics to my proposing this project. I welcome all interest with open arms.Caissa's DeathAngel (talk) 16:09, 23 January 2008 (UTC)