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Requested move 18 January 2019

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page to any particular title at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 03:51, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Megalopolis of China → Megalopolises of China – Correct plural as this refers to multiple megalopolises Keizers (talk) 03:41, 18 January 2019 (UTC)--Relisting. Dekimasuよ! 08:11, 26 January 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. KCVelaga (talk) 05:39, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The article uses "city cluster" six times and "megalopolis" sixteen times (and says that "a city cluster is an officially-defined type of megalopolis" in the WP:FIRSTSENTENCE). This has been moved on 12 August 2018 from Metropolitan regions of China and back again on 15 August, thence its current title on 17 January 2019 .

I can understand the difficulty with translating here (and city cluster redirects here), but we should make our minds up. Does "城市群" better translate as "conurbation" or "metropolitan area", for example? As it stands, the mixed use (elegant variations?) of the terms makes the article difficult to understand. 94.21.253.25 (talk) 04:19, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Please let’s fix the grammar before other discussions

Guys sorry but y’all missed the point. I asked for the move because the current title is GRAMATICALLY INCORRECT. It needs to be plural before you start talking about moving it to a different synonym.Keizers (talk) 01:00, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Note that the official translation of 城市群 is "agglomeration", but as far as I can tell, this term is approximately synonymous with urban area which is of smaller scale than metropolitan area, and thus, it is a wrong translation (or Chinglish). Meanwhile, the term "city cluster" has been widely used by the media and should be taken into consideration. But I still support megalopolises (or megalopolises, megalopoleis). Any plural form would be fine. --H₂NCH₂COOH (Talk) 07:57, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Agree: so I was WP:BOLD and moved to City clusters in China.Keizers (talk) 16:32, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Keizers: Please kindly stop bold move. Did you see there was a RM thread above? Any new proposal are 100% controversial. Matthew hk (talk) 16:45, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

For other people, instead of became a self-taught translator, please dig out English publication. I would be surprised if no one in the uni wrote academic papers for this subject. Matthew hk (talk) 16:47, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

By a rough calculation, in google scholar Megalopolis China or Megalopolises China have over 10,000 result, "City cluster" China and "City clusters" China, both around 3,000 result. Matthew hk (talk) 17:08, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Matthew, this title is NOT CORRECT ENGLISH! With all due respect, it is very common in Hong Kong and Singapore to forget to put the proper plural endings, because in Chinese these endings do not exist... in your own comment above you do this. So I can imagine it is not obvious to you that the title of the article simply is NOT ENGLISH!!! Moving again as it must be (as a Greek worigin word ending in "is"): "megalopolises" (common) or megalopoles (correct but awkward and uncommon)! Please do something to make this correct ENGLISH. Keizers (talk) 18:17, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

please use WP:RM and list clearly the evidence. Undiscussed bold move is not a binding consensus. Matthew hk (talk) 17:00, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]