Globalize edit
Metropole isn't exclusive from England. France, Portugal, and Spain, among other nations and former colonial empires, used this designation as well. Armindo 12:18, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, it would be interesting to try to turn this article into something more principled rather than just about the word. Are there good sources? I agree that the UK as the British Empire's metropole parallels the idea of Metropolitan France in many ways. --Delirium (talk) 23:22, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
- Because there already is a discussion, I added a 'Globalize' tag (and a header for this talk-page topic). I was going to link "metropole" from an article relating to France, but since this article is not relevant, decided not to. ~E:71.20.250.51 (talk) 17:42, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
- Could it be merged into metropolis? Vermelhamesa (talk) 00:35, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
- The above discussion and the real situation amazes me. Back in 2005 the original author says "hey, I know this is a more global topic than just England" and leaves the first comment. Then over the years (2007/2008/2010) people add an "Other empires" section and expand that. Then 2011 someone says 'globalize' and someone else says "no, English-only term". Even still the "Other empires" section is added to. Then in 2013 an ...... editor says "Other empires: section completely irrelevant to the topic, so removed it". A year later 2014 someone says 'globalize'! And there are the comments above. Isn't it marvelous discussing something without reference to the fact it existed just a year earlier? And then 3 years later some good soul starts over, putting in info about the Portuguese empire.
- This is how hrmph-ist editors do real damage to WP. And this is how discussion-ist editors quite miss opportunities to recover from damage by the hrmph-ists. WP is not being improved by failing to prevent damage and failing to recover from damage. Pick *any* article - over time good text has been removed without cause or by accident/vandalism. How is that repaired? Corrosion says corrosion is a natural process. I fear that is true, here.
- Maybe I'll be over my snit tomorrow, and look over the deleted text. All that good effort, hrmphed into oblivion, and everywhere at Wikipedia! Shenme (talk) 06:19, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
metropole edit
Une metropole est une cites avec beacoup de pouvoir et de plus que 3 million d'habitant lol j'ai juste 8 ans et je faits sa pce
Belich edit
Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld by James Belich has some interesting things to say about this subject.Keith-264 (talk) 10:22, 24 December 2011 (UTC)