Wikipedia talk:Requested articles/Business and economics

Merrill Edge
Hi all - I just wanted to clarify my affiliation with Merrill Edge as I am the author who provided the information for consideration of a Wikipedia article. I am a paid employee at Bank of America, which owns/operates the Merrill Edge online brokerage. The information is factual and I've provided several external resources, but wanted to provide transparency here as well. Thank you, Jason — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djasoncook (talk • contribs) 15:08, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Euler equation?
Is this request referring to Euler's homogeneous function theorem? If so, it can probably be removed... that is Euler's equation that is most often used in economics that I am aware of. Afelton 21:50, 1 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I am not sure, but if you think so, just redirect it to Euler's homogeneous function theorem. -- Pamri &bull; Talk 04:40, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

The homogeneous function theorem gets used a fair bit, but when macroeconomists talk about 'Euler equations' they're usually referring to the Euler-Lagrange equation that corresponds to an inter-temporal maximisation problem. (The Bellman equation article mentions how they come about.) Would it be worthwhile having some kind of redirect, or even a short page on its own? Just an idea. Fartsmith (talk) 09:45, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Shopworn expression
Under business terminology, there is a request for shopworn expression. This is not a business term, rather an idiom and should be requested elsewhere.

RA formatting standard
Please see: Wikipedia_talk:Requested_articles. Dragons flight 18:36, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

I question the appropriateness of hostile bid on the list of business terms that require an article. Much of the material one would to put in such an article is already in takeover and related articles, more can be put in those articles if you want. If someone did create an article called "hostile big," it might soon thereafter be merged. --Christofurio 15:45, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Couldn't help...
For anybody looking for a good laugh on a tiresome day - see the (currently) second request in "Business" (key figure). ROTFL! Bravada, talk - 15:42, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

define:substitute check
The following may be copyrighted

Definitions of substitute check on the Web:


 * A substitute check is a legal document, with all the rights and obligations of the original check and is about the size of a business check. It includes all information and endorsements from both the front and back of the original check . All substitute checks are required to include the following statement – This is a LEGAL COPY of your check. You can use it the same way you would use the original check. This is also known as an Image Replacement Document (IRD). www.ennis.com/ennis_site/check21/check21_glossary.htm

End of copyright notice.....

Hi, I am Kushal Hada. I have a userpage too if you think I am doing something inappropriate. The thing is that I get substitute checks from Bank of America and I want Wikipedia to have an article about it. I liked the article about Mail-in rebate and its redirected page. I will follow up on your progress. Thank you! Kushal Kushal one 18:07, 22 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Although requesting on the Talk page is unofficial, I jumped right on it. Now you can see the beginning of an artcle for substitute check. I hope other contributors will help wikify and categorize this new article. --Emana 09:26, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Separate Business Organizations section
I think it's time we move the Business Organizations section to a sub-page or its own full page. Or better yet, why not make this whole page into a composite page of six or seven separate pages? This is your chance to chime in. I will wait two weeks until Jan. 1st, 2007 to take any action. --Emana 19:56, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree that it needs to be separated. Is there some way to make it more manageable, like by having categories that fold out? Gogarburn 21:22, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your comment, apparently, the Cleanup Taskforce has reviewed this article and will soon be changing stuff around. I don't know when they'll actually assign someone to it, but I don't want to step on their toes. If the person assigned to it could notify me of their intentions, I'd appreciate it. So far it HAS been two weeks since the split proposal, so I would like to start the split process. -- Emana 08:58, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Well it's been two weeks, so I did it. I proposed the split to brush away spam under the rug, but I bet it's going to increase spam requests in the other sections. I marked the split area with HTML, so If it doesn't work well, we can put the section back easily. -- Emana 06:51, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Splitting "People" section
The "People" section has become unwieldy and long. I think it's time to split this section off. I know most of the requests must be splam links, but it cannot be ignored that these are real (or virtual) people that exist and may become notable enough for a paragraph on Wikipedia in the near future. As such, I think it suitable to let them be red-linked until the day their notoriaty arrives. With the amount of requests contained in this section, I hereby propose a section split. I will wait for two weeks until Jan. 7th, 2007, to take any action. Please leave your opinions here. -- Emana 07:45, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I support splitting it off. Gogarburn 21:22, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Supported. Unwieldy is right. AndrewHowse 16:08, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I also support this split. I will take on this task since the user that originally suggested it seems to have abandoned the idea (see note about Jan. 7th, above). I hope this is to the majority's liking. Ben K 15:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks Ben K. After splitting off the Business Organizations section, I wasn't sure if the split was doing any good, so I wasn't too energetic about splitting another section... it is a lot of work. Thanks again! -- Emana 00:38, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Deleting external links
I am deleting external links that link directly to the corporate website of the subject of the request, as they promote linkspam. It is easy enough to find corporate websites via Google search. I am also deleting links that link to advertisements, and heavily biased sites that are obviously trying to pursuade visitors against NPOV. I left some external links alone as they were genuine resources that were not directly related to or controlled by the subjects involved in the articles. If you disagree, instead of telling ME that you disagree, please prove to everybody else that the subject is worthy to be on Wikipedia by starting a stub article. -- Emana 19:33, 8 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't see any more external links on this page. Can we now remove the Spam-request tag?Anshuk (talk) 04:54, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

You don't see blatant promotional external links because I've been patrolling like the warning says. Nevertheless, you are free to remove the Spam request tag as you see fit. The warning tag exists for my convenience; I will continue to police advertisements without the tag, but would hate to have to explain myself over and over to people that say, "I didn't see any rule or warning!". --Emana (talk) 00:56, 27 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Really appreciate the job you are doing. Since this came up in the category 'Wikipedia spam cleanup', I thought there is some cleanup required. I won't touch it, since it looks like it is in good hands. Anshuk (talk) 08:36, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Terminology
I added definitions under Brand Development Index and Customer Tiering. Neither is exactly rooted in economics but they certainly arise in a business context. --AndrewHowse 01:53, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Update for clarity - Brand Development Index has been moved to a stub (by another user) AndrewHowse 16:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Corporate blogging policies
When I looked for a place to ask about a Wikipedia corporate blogging policies article, this was as close as I got. There may be a subcategory on the project page into which it would fit, but I wasn't able to select one for this sketch of what I was looking for:


 * Corporate blogging policy is notable in the encyclopedic sense in at least four ways:
 * Advertising medium for employer:
 * e.g. SaaScon workshops for a 2005 IDG conference; Signpost article about Microsoft
 * Critical of employer:
 * e.g. Delta Air Lines/Ellen Simonetti; July 2006 article in The Scotsman
 * Integral part of corporate culture:
 * e.g. Sun Microsystems policy for company-hosted employee blogs
 * Underneath the radar:
 * e.g. Electronic Frontier Foundation employee blog advice
 * See also: a young article, Employee branding…

I posted the points above during a discussion (now archived) on WP:BLP/N about a specific article—the larger context has more scope. Is there anyone here who knows where to take this, or who has an interest in developing it further? — Athænara  ✉  20:44, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Rhetoric of reaction
I've requested an article on this book by Albert O. Hirschman. It is legitimate, although I may create the article myself, time permitting. Bearian 22:35, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

References/Ext links
There needs to be ext. links for people to make articles. I mean if the article is regarding a corp., I don't think it can be link spam. They don't make profit by ads. Most information is only available from the corps. website! --Obsolete.fax (talk) 06:14, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Inseki jinin
Where would I go about requesting an article about inseki jinin (引責辞任), (taking responsibility by resigning) which is a common phenomena among Japanese politicians and business people who are ranked in their group/party/company. -Kaddkaka (talk) 17:00, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Business combinations
I think there needs to be a separate page for this. The current "mergers and acquisitions" page only highlights the b2b aspects of the global company shuffles going on. There is also not enough clarification on the synonyms/differences of some expressions like "demerger" "spin-off" "spin-out". (Hive-down doesn't appear anywhere so far). Just having a separate page for every expression doesn't help s.o. sorting out what they are looking at. Company groups also move their subsidiaries around. It would be nice to have a page sorting basic concepts and terminology out and linking to the relevant pages. Sorry but I'm a klutz when it comes to business, so I can't DIY it. Anyone here willing to help? Lisa4edit

"National Motor Freight Classification" or NMFC
I could find no information for this in Wikipedia. The only NMFC in Wikipedia is a football club. (Of all the requested articles, the business section seemed the most appropriate. If there is a better one, please move it there.) The NMFC is used to classify merchandise so rates can be set for shpping items in a truck, and likely rail, ships (marine), air and maybe even to space.

I was just looking for the list of classifications, but there is more to it than that. A gas grill is commonly 92.5, but may also be class 100.0 and 110.0. Wood chips, not charred is 50.0. I guess charcoal is some other class.

A small explaination is available from common carrier ABF: Explanation of Rate Scale. —Preceding unsigned comment added by PReinie (talk) 14:34, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I ditto above. Info is published by NMFTA: http://www.nmfta.org/Pages/Nmfc.aspx describes the catalog and source. HTH. cheers!

Help with Non-Profit Wikipedia Page
How/where does one go about requesting a page for a non-profit organization? I have all of the information necessary but cannot seem to avoid deletion. Any help would be greatly appreciated-Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Erika.boll (talk • contribs) 16:51, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Please consider adding a link to third party news coverage showing its encyclopedic value. Full Decent (talk) 18:25, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Overwritten section
The whole Business Terminology section was overwritten with promotional text by User:Indexholdingdubai, and afterwards, two people made new requests. I reverted to the last version before the overwriting and put back in the two new requests. I think everything is ok now. --Cmontero (talk) 18:40, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Big update 2009-10-23
I made a large, probably controversial, update today. If you disagree with it, please discuss here. My methods include: removing spam, removing existing articles, checking Google Scholar for notoriety of authors, checking my own expert knowledge from my education on the subject. I erred on the side of caution, more cleansing needs to be done. Full Decent (talk) 18:22, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Adam Smith Medal/Prize
Think we can resolved this one. Someone requested Adam Smith Medal, but there is already Adam Smith Prize. It is unlikely there is a difference so I just wanted another user to confirm this before it is removed from the list. Its okay to remove this when resolved. DaltonCastle (talk) 23:22, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Labor and Pensions
I just added a request for Central States Pension Fund. I put it under "other". There seems to be no place to request articles about pensions, labor unions or the labor movement.  Randall Bart    Talk   16:49, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Cleanup
In case anyone watching the talk page, I plan to work on cleaning up this page over the next few days. Right now it is not maintained, the format is not followed, and is essentially impossible to use. Edits often appear to be tests or spam. I hope to remove non-notable entries, move appropriate sections to subpages, and make minor formatting changes to make it more usable. Please feel free to revert/help out. C F A  💬  01:19, 16 June 2024 (UTC)