Wikipedia:WikiProject Global Economics
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Article topic suggestions (these are less likely to be deleted):
- Any article in most wanted articles, a requested articles, or desired expansions to an existing article. See especially Missing topics in Business and Economics and Business and Economics stubs for expansion.
- Economic topics about the developing world are badly needed. Some good ideas are "Agriculture in...", "Mining in..." and "Deforestation in..." for any developing country. If you look at the bottom of the articles Deforestation in Haiti, Agriculture in Chad, Agriculture in Cambodia, and Mining in Chad, you will see navigation boxes that link to other related articles. All of the red links in these boxes are missing articles--please write one of these!
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ECN 340 Global Economics
Prof. Paul Hamilton
Note to my students: Please link your articles below. I highly recommend that you put a note at the top stating something to the effect of {Under construction} to avoid deletion and heavy editing by someone else.
Note: Please do not tag articles with {{Underconstruction}} unless you are genuinely still working on them. Please do not add the tag simply to try to avoid the article being nominated for deletion. Cordless Larry (talk) 17:49, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Student articles edit
Unlisted articles edit
If you prefer not to edit the code in the table, you can list your article here:
- ? Global smoking habit Given the timescale (brought to AfD on 29 April), the title, and the comments at its AfD discussion, it was probably also part of this project, but not listed here before deletion.Voceditenore (talk) 16:15, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
- ? Racism and Segregation - from the title and the style it may be part of this project. It is now a redirect to Racial segregation nancy (talk) 17:59, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
- ? Middle East in Turmoil ,Reasons - title, style, date of article and single-purpose account suggests it's part of the project. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 19:48, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
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- AfD - Articles for Deletion
- Moved - article kept, title changed
- Redirected - article not kept; title points at another article
- Userfied - Article move out of article space into user space
- MOS - Wikipedia's Manual of Style
- Proposed deletion or Prod
- CSD or Speedy or Speedy Deletion
- OR - Original research
- Other shorthand & jargon commonly used on wikipedia
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Comment - there is a relevant discussion on the user talk page here. JohnCD (talk) 16:52, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
(Best to use the in use template, {{inuse}}, if you are involved in editing an article and don't want it edited significantly by others in the mean time. Keep in mind that on Wikipedia, traditionally all content is freely editable by others. Additionally, content must adhere to our content policies - if it does not, it may be removed or whole articles may be deleted. Avruch T 21:46, 28 April 2008 (UTC))
(Further comments - it looks like the first article about censorship will be deleted. If you have your students register an account, as you did, they can work on articles in their own userspace (basically .../username/articleinprogress). You might also consider that some types of content don't really work as encyclopedia articles by themselves, but could be included in more general articles as a subset (or section). You might view the censorship article to see if an article about censorship of youth books could be condensed into a section of the more general article. Avruch T 21:51, 28 April 2008 (UTC))
(Your students should also consider adding this template – {{EducationalAssignment}} – to the talk pages of their articles. You'll find more information about this and some essential guidelines for using Wikpedia as part of an academic course at Wikipedia:School and university projects.) Voceditenore (talk) 06:31, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- practical advice about the use of tags: "inuse" only works well during active editing--during the period of an hour or do when material is being actively added, not between round of editing. If its longer than that, editors who see it will simply remove it. "Underconstruction" is principle is supposed work for somewhere between 5 & 14 days, but sometimes is removed after 1 or 2 days. At present for these articles, in practice it will also attract notice as likely to be part of the project. DGG (talk) 20:48, 5 May 2008 (UTC)