Talk:Boots theory

Vimes Boots Index
I have attempted to separate the economic explanatory theory from the proposed index which will measure its effects.

If anyone has a link to the proposed methodology for the index, please add it in. I have looked but can't find anything. AlecStewart (talk) 10:44, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Taking this to GA
This has always been the favorite article I wrote and I've been doing a lot of work recently to try and take it to a GA. Before I nominate it, I want to check other contributors' thoughts and see if any other work needs to be done. Pinging @Sideswipe9th, who gave me a lot of advice on improvements to make this week.

2 concerns stick out.
 * 1) GA criteria 1-5 seem met, but I'm unsure how to illustrate the page or if we can  (Criteria 6). Possible images include this illustration of Sam Vimes, the cover of Men at Arms, the cover of the ragged-trousered philanthropists, this startlingly prescient summary of the theory I just found on commons, and this figure from the VBI-inspired ONS report showing the change from september 2021-2022 (though I'm not sure how the copyright works out). At the risk of overcrowding the page, I hope we can include image 1 or 2, image 4, and image 5.
 * 2) I trimmed the quotation of the paragraph the theory stems from as a possible copyright vio. However, most sources discussing the theory quote the paragraph in full and highlight its importance, so I'm unsure whether we can keep it. I hope we can as its properly attributed and central to the theory, so I'd appreciate some more input on that.

Best, TheTranarchist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 18:20, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Vimes Boots Index
From GA review: The "Vimes Boot Index" isn't really about a poverty premium at all, but about the prices of the cheapest goods seeing a disproportionate rise compared to the overall average.

Dealing with this issue, there is a very similar paragraph in the Jack Monroe article. Perhaps the two could be combined there, leaving a note in this article that the Pratchett estate had permitted the use of the name for that purpose. MRSC (talk) 07:27, 21 June 2023 (UTC)