Talk:List of metropolitan areas in Europe

Removal of out of date data

The first 3 sources used to provide populations appear recent and relevant as they are from 2020, 2019 and 2018 respectively. Column 5 (OECD) could be argued to fall into this category, at a push, (2016) but column 4 is quoting data from 2006. Is there any revised data from them or does anyone agree this needs removing? Fairview32 (talk) 13:18, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Tekirdağ

Where is Tekirdağ, shouln't be added to this list? Tekirdağ metropolitan area has a population of 1,081,065 inhabitans. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.180.28.228 (talk) 20:44, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

Missing small metro areas

This OECD publication shows 8 metropolitan areas in Portugal, but this list only has two. This list should be comprehensive, as Metropolitan statistical area is for the United States (which shows it's feasible to include all of them). -- Beland (talk) 23:49, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Rhein-Ruhr Metropolitan is missing

Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan (5th is missing. 134.238.84.173 (talk) 09:26, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Ruhr is included in main table with ~5 million people, Rhine-Ruhr is listed in the Polycentric metropolitan areas list with ~12 million people. --Ita140188 (talk) 09:42, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

1 million limit

The beginning of the article states that the list only includes cities with a population of over 1 million, however there is also a note that says that it is missing smaller metropolitan areas. Is the 1 million limit a good scope for the article or should other metropolitan areas be added or not? MariusNixon (talk) 14:25, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

In my opinion 1 million population cut-off is a good and reasonable idea. Similar requirements can be seen in related lists. Otherwise, the comprehensive table for Europe would have to have around few hundred rows. Additionally, there are links to country-specific lists in the "See also" section, so ultimately no data is totally lost if we do not include them. Dżamper (talk) 11:23, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Manual of style seems to support this.

• "complete lists (...) should only be created if a complete list is reasonably short"
• "if a complete list would include hundreds or thousands of entries, then you should use the notability standard to provide focus to the list."

A complete list of metropolitan areas in Europe would not be reasonably short and would include hundreds of entries. I guess some of the smaller areas fail on the notability guidelines too. Dżamper (talk) 08:16, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Yeah agreed, that seems reasonable. I'll delete the tag then. --MariusNixon (talk) 00:49, 10 November 2024 (UTC)