Talk:National Economic Association

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 August 2020 and 4 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Kezchow, Ojc1, Yowashi23. Peer reviewers: Angelalin79, Jkolli.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 01:26, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Plans and References

Howdy, my friends Yong, Keziah, and I are hoping to help add additional information to this page to highlight minority contributions to the field of economics. I have a brief summary about myself, our interest in the project, as well as some of the references we'll be using on my user page. Come check it out! Ojc1 (talk) 03:24, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi there!

I wrote all the text on this page, using many of the sources you mention (relying as little as possible on pages from the NEA itself, as Wikipedia frowns on that). While you're always welcome to improve any article in Wikipedia, I think this one is already as extensive as most other Economic organization pages in Wikipedia (and the BPE page is already as long as most other Economics Journal pages).

Instead, given your aims, can I suggest starting pages for some of the many NEA Presidents listed on the page who have no Wikipedia pages at all? Their NEA presidencies should make each of them notable enough for their own Wikipedia pages? You could start with Karl D. Gregory, and a great reference is https://www.neaecon.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Program-Booklet-NEA-50th-Anniversary-revised-Feb-17-2020.pdf.

Thanks!--EAWH (talk) 11:48, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Collaboration

As Oland mentioned, Yong Shin (Yowashi23) and I will be collaborating for revising this article. Kezchow (talk) 03:42, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

As Keziah mentioned, Keziah Chow (Kezchow), Oland, and I will be collaborating for revising this article. Yowashi23 (talk) 03:44, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Proposal for improving this article

Here is a brief proposal of changes that Oland (ojc1), Yong (Yowashi23), and I think will improve and generate more traffic for the article.

Firstly, the article states very general details about what the association stands for in addition to individual quotes about the actions the association has undertaken over the years. The article does not go into detail about the directions of development the association strives for nor does it provide an organized outline of the transformation of the association into what it is today. The article will mainly be added to because the information in the article currently isn’t necessarily bad, just lacking in detail.

To add detail, we will add a "History" section which will cover the history of the development of the NEA. It will be further subdivided with information depending on our sources. We will also add a "Purpose" section to cover the general Articles of Incorporation of the NEA. There will also be a "Projects" section which will cover the large scale projects undertaken by the NEA. It may be subdivided into “Economic development of ethnic communities”, “Inter-campus research and faculty development”, “Black economists’ professional development and research”, and more.

Sources for these improvements as well as a more detailed proposal can be found in my sandbox. Kezchow (talk) 04:44, 27 September 2020 (UTC) Yowashi23 (talk) 21:48, 29 September 2020 (UTC) Ojc1 (talk) 21:56, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Comments

Hello, the contributions to the article are great! It might be nice to add some images to add visual interest though and adding a section specific to the origins of the journal would help the structure, but great work. V.a.PJHC (talk) 23:07, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

I agree you have done a great job with this! My only note is that the Impact section could appear earlier in the article to highlight that information, as it is more substantive than the lists of grants and awards. Otherwise, thank you for expanding this article!

Emilyp99 (talk) 02:00, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Your article was very succinct and gave me the information I needed to understand NEA better! I would recommend some minor restructuring of information like moving some information from the lead section into a new section regarding how and why NEA was created. More information regarding the authors and conditions of the studies like mentioned above would also be great. Good job overall! -Angelalin79 (talk) 03:03, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Y’all did another great job working on this article! The only thing I would suggest would be to see if there is another source you could use in the “impact” section. If you have a chance, it might also be cool to add more information/another section to expand on the history, reception, and pushback of the NEA. Great job! Akandru (talk) 03:30, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Great job with this article! I liked how much detail you included of the history and background, as well as in the lead. I thought the article could use a little more information on current impact, if any, as well as impact throughout history. Great job with the links as well! Michelle Gachelin (talk) 03:45, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

The added impact section contextualizes the organization and its modern impacts well. For improvements, I would suggest creating a new history section for the historical information in the lead, adding information about the lists of people, like what the Westerfield Award is for, and adding sources for the impact section. Great job! Jkolli (talk) 04:24, 29 October 2020 (UTC)