Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Economics/Featured Article drive

What constitutes consensus?

As of this writing, Adam Smith looks like our consensus pick. Gary, how many people do you want to have on board before we make a decision? Unschool (talk) 17:22, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Maybe wait a couple more days to see if anyone else comes out of the woodwork? We have at least six editors interested right now, which would be awesome if everyone was pretty active. I dunno though, I've never done anything like this. -FrankTobia (talk) 18:56, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

I was involved at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured list director which was for an FLC director instead of choosing an article, but the concept is the same. That one lasted for a week or two, but there were a few dozen people involved over there, whereas there will certainly be a lot fewer here. I will probably wait for a 24 hour period to pass without any new votes coming in and then close it and choose one by consensus. Also, I'm thinking that the articles on here will probably make up a list and be ordered by consensus, so that we don't have to run a new vote every time we want to work on a new article. Gary King (talk) 19:14, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Keep in mind that consensus can change, so if the chosen topic takes a month or two to get featured, we might want to work on a different article then than we do now. Just a thought. I do like the wait-24-hours idea. -FrankTobia (talk) 22:30, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Yep, I agree that consensus could change. If we complete our first FA, some members might decide that we should tackle tougher subjects or some might want to go for an easier article, but it's always nice to keep the results that we get from this poll for future reference. Gary King (talk) 23:45, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Indubitably. -FrankTobia (talk) 00:27, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

+1 for Adam Smith, and thanks for the invitation, Gary. I became a huge fan of Smith early on, but I have been reviewing Wealth of Nations looking for errors off and on for years (particularly the labor theory of value), so I have plenty to bring into the discussion. We will need to address a number of questions, such as the vexing confusion between prices, value, later concepts of utility, and others. I do not yet know how to deal with the misrepresentations of Smith's views that have wide currency, and the other controversies between the various schools. I have several other economics topics in mind that we should endeavor to raise to FA quality and status, but I will hold off on nominations until I get some more experience of the process. I am currently working on analyzing the conditions for creating and maintaining efficient Free Markets, with policy recommendations, so I will take care not to insert my own research. Let me know if I slip up. %-[ --Cherlin (talk) 21:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

General question

Something I've been pondering: when we decide on an article, we are obviously aiming at bring it to featured status. I understand that peer reviewing is pretty much a necessity, but will we take it through WP:GAN as well? It seems to me like we should, but I'm not positive. -FrankTobia (talk) 03:54, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

It's not by any means necessary at all, but I would suggest we do so, anyways. If we fail GAN, then we will know that a lot of work still needs to be done. I've gone through this cycle a few times so I'd love to help out and steer it in the right direction; the steps we take depends on the current article status of the article we choose, of course. Typically, we start with a B-class article; we would work to bring it to GA class, then do a peer review to get outside input, and then bring it to FAC. Gary King (talk) 03:59, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Archiving this page

This page is now archived. Please continue further discussions on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Economics. Thanks! Gary King (talk) 16:29, 14 May 2008 (UTC)