Talk:Mega Manila

What's with the italics in the opening paragraph? I don't know anything about the topic (I linked in here while reading about a tropical storm), but as an outsider, it appears that they don't add anything and should therefore be removed.

Radio stations to be put on its own page perhaps? Tagasilab (talk) 07:47, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

What the...
No offence, but this is a pretty odd page. Curiously surprised, I wanted to learn what was so 'megalopolis' about Manila or even Mega Manila, only to find what is basically a list of radio stations. Unless I'm very much mistaken, shouldn't the core of a page like this be about the area itself and even then, mostly dealing with the degree of urbanization? Strangely enough, the same user that created the page (Howard the Duck), also seems responsible for the bulk of the radio stations list, so it doesn't seem to be a list that's simply gotten out of hand. Most likely someone with a penchant for radio stations in his or her local area. In any case, I don't believe the page should contain any list of this length on a hardly related subject. Certainly not when it's 75% of the information currently on it. There seems to be substantial list on a page of it's own, although not grouped together for "Mega Manila". I feel, however, that something like a category would serve this purpose (using the term loosely) far better.

Sorry, Howard, I'm going to cut the list, but I'll invite anyone to makes this a category or list on a more appropriate page.OmikronWeapon (talk) 17:42, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Believe it or not, the current use of the term "Mega Manila" is on radio stations, TV, advertising, even newspapers: it's a "market". It's quite different from, say, on how the term Northeast megalopolis is used. Referring to the urbanized areas of Luzon with Manila as its center is almost usually not called "Mega Manila"; it is usually called by different names: "Metro Manila" (the clearly defined region), the quite dated "Greater Manila Area", the "Lingayen-Lucena corridor" for politics, and from the same place where the term "Mega Manila" was coined, "Urban Luzon" when referring to TV station ratings; again, "market". – H T  D  21:33, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't think the term Mega Manila is used exclusively to refer to the media market, based on Google news results where it is becoming increasely used also to refer to the geographic region surrounding Metro Manila. I think it is worth adding this other definition of Mega Manila to the article.--RioHondo (talk) 01:06, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
 * No one's saying it is used "exclusively" to refer to the media market, but it's interest to point out that in the 1st page of the Google News search you've provided, seven out of ten use the "media market" definition. The other three are from the recently used government study on urban transport. – H T  D  10:20, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

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