Talk:Brookings list of metropolitan economies in the United Kingdom

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what is the source for population numbers

I understand that the ESPON data is from 2001 and has not been updated afterwards What is the source for these latest numbers J mareeswaran (talk) 14:26, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Per comment on the ESPON Talk Page, I can't find any source for these on the Brookings study interactive map. The author of this article may know better. Koncorde (talk) 16:21, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This article as it stands today looks like serious wp:SYN and wp:OR. For example, by no stretch of imagination is Peterborough-Cambridge a metropolitan area, let alone a single one. It is purely an administrative chimera to satisfy a government ideology. If we are to have an article about sub-regional mayoralties, let it be explicit and honest and not pretend to be something other than what it is. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 22:26, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Article move

I moved the article because, under its original name, it looked like a normal Wikipedia list article. The problem is that we have no information about the methodology, analysis or data-sources for any of these categorisations. Single sourced articles are generally deprecated. Prefixing the title with "Brookings" is a way of keeping a potentially useful article but also of indicating that it is not generic. The same type of name change was made to what is now the ESPON list. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 10:55, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]