Talk:Greater Metropolitan Area (Costa Rica)

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Also, this metro area is more compatible with the urban area concept, because a proper metropolitan area definition applied in this case should include some cities englobed in the conurbation of San Jose nowadays should include the cities of Alajuela, Heredia and Cartago, but this is not currently accepted by the authorities, given the status of this cities as provincial capitals too.

Simply aren't true - at least not in full - because the GAM population measurement does, indeed, include that of Alajuela from everything I've found. This probably needs to be deleted or corrected if it doesn't include the cantons in the other areas. --Criticalthinker (talk) 07:11, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

The whole article is a mess, starting with its name, because the "San José metropolitan area" is not a specifically defined area. Furthermore, as the article does correctly state, the Gran Área Metropolitana spans 4 provinces, not just San José, and certainly not just the city or canton of San José Apolo2400 (talk) 22:07, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 13 May 2014

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The result of the move request was: moved. Arguments in support are far more compelling and those opposing. Jenks24 (talk) 14:25, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

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San José metropolitan area → Greater Metropolitan Area (Costa Rica) – The article refers to the area known within Costa Rica as "la Gran Área Metropolitana" or "GAM". This area is never referred to locally in Spanish as the "San José metropolitan area", nor is this an accepted term for any other (specifically defined) area in Costa Rica. I would also suggest that "Greater Metropolitan Area" is a more contextually accurate translation of the Spanish term "Gran Área Metropolitana" than "Great Metropolitan Area". The article will need to be edited to reflect the agreed-upon term following any eventual move. Relisted Calidum ^{Talk To Me} 03:18, 31 May 2014 (UTC) --Relisted. ^walk victor falk ^talk 00:29, 24 May 2014 (UTC) Apolo2400 (talk) 21:37, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

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• Support as per WP:PRECISE (current title isn't really precise enough), which overrides WP:CONCISE here. Also, you have correctly deduced that "Greater" works better here. I am open to other suggested titles. Red Slash 02:32, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

• Move to Greater San José Metropolitan Area per WP:NATURALDIS, and more precise than a vague and cumbersome parenthetical disambiguator. ^walk victor falk ^talk 00:29, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
• Move to Greater San José Metropolitan Area per victor falk. Local usage is obviously informative regarding COMMONNAME, but it is not the sole factor in article titling. Article titles must be sufficiently precise to convey meaning to a cosmopolitan audience. "La Gran Área Metropolitana" is comprehensible only in its local context. While the article text should reflect the fact that this is the name used locally, the article title should serve the broadest possible community of readers. Xoloz (talk) 17:35, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
• victor falk, Xoloz, I don't think either of those titles is precise enough. San Jose, California often (not always) spells its name with an accented é, and it also has a metropolitan area. Red Slash 16:01, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

• Move to Greater Metropolitan Area (Costa Rica) or Greater Metropolitan Area, Costa Rica as I have previously suggested. It is not appropriate for the name to contain "San Jose", because not only does this not reflect local usage but, as I have mentioned elsewhere on this page, the area in question spans 4 major cities (San José, Cartago, Heredia and Alajuela), each located within a different province of the same name. In requesting the move I specifically did not want the name to make any reference to San Jose as it is misleading. Apolo2400 (talk) 10:40, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

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