Talk:Calabarzon

All caps?
Is there a reason this is in all caps? -- Cyrius|&#9998; 23:47, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It's an acronym that stands for the provinces it is composed of. CAvite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon. TheCoffee 02:35, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Eyeballs slid right over that part of the article, whoops. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 02:59, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

CalabarzonA?
We need a local, I think, to clarify the CALABARZON/CALABARZONA issue?

The latter's article seems to indicate that the latter supercedes the former, as being composed of the latter's five components plus one more that's unconnected to the others, is that it? Or am I missing something? DS 14:19, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I've never heard of this "CALABARZONA". Aurora province is in a different region, and to my knowledge it was never part of CALABARZON. No Google hits for "calabarzona". If this is supposed to be a hoax, it's pretty lame. Coffee 16:41, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, that's good enough for me. I'll switch it to a redirect. DS 16:41, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's what I would do. Coffee 17:22, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Actually, the original components of the Southern Tagalog Region (Region 4) prior to its break-up were: Aurora, CALABARZON, and MIMAROPA. There was a time when the splitting of Region 4 was not official yet, that is, when CALABARZON and MIMAROPA were sub-regions of Region 4. Then there was the issue with Aurora province, so CALABARZON became CALABARZONA for a while.When the split into official regions happened, that was the time when Aurora was officially transferred to Region 3, thus the duration of calling the sub-region CALABARZONA was brief, hence its non-popularity. Although i do remember that some people argued back then that CALABARZON is ok to use over CALABARZONA since the "AR" string would somehow incorporate Aurora into the acronym...Meynardtengco 17:34, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

From my school days, Aurora province has always been part of Region 3 and not region 4. The proper acronym is indeed CALABARZON. Usagichin 06:47, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

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region IV
why we have 2 parts in region IV —Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.28.152.215 (talk) 08:52, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Not a portmanteau
CALABARZON does not appear to be a portmanteau, either in the technical sense of fused function words or in the popular sense of a blend of content words. Rather, it resembles an acronym, formed from the first one or two letters of four provinces, plus the last three of Quezon. Compare such acronyms as radar, from RAdio Detection And Ranging, or NOR gate, from Negation of OR operator. Is there a reliable source that calls CALABARZON a portmanteau? Cnilep (talk) 13:34, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Fair Use on Seals
I've checked the individual seals for the provinces and I noticed that there was a fair use rationale for every one of them. This means we can use the seals for this page, right? Unless there's something I'm not getting. Enlighten me, please. NyanThousand (talk) 16:40, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Just because a rationale exists does not mean that it is valid. Often users just copy/paste rationales and change the article name, take a look at WP:NFCC specifically WP:NFCC Werieth (talk) 16:43, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I see. I'm trying to see if there's something we can do about it but WP:NFCC seems pretty clear on the issue. Shame though. NyanThousand (talk) 17:58, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Requested move 14 April 2015

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The result of the move request was: Not moved Mike Cline (talk) 14:17, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Calabarzon → CALABARZON – The proper name of the region is in all caps as it is an acronym (like NASA, or UNESCO). Page was moved from "CALABARZON" to "Calabarzon" without discussion. seav (talk) 16:34, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose. Looks like the current spelling has become common in contemporary reliable sources such as those in Google News. Btw, not all acronyms are capitalized like Jabodetabek, Nabisco and Sunoco. :)--RioHondo (talk) 02:59, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose - per search "Calabarzon is" in Google Books. In ictu oculi (talk) 06:48, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose. No SHOUTING in Wikipedia.  173.160.224.84 (talk) 15:56, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
 *  COMMENT , site:www.gov.ph predominantly uses "CALABARZON" but not to anything close to an overwhelming extent. GregKaye 05:56, 17 April 2015 (UTC)


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