Talk:Mumbai

NMMT starts volvo from cbd belapur to Bandra

This point should be mentioned in transport as even best dont have volvos.Even NMMT has services to mulund/dadar/ and other areas.If Navi Mumbai can include BEST then even Mumbai should write about NMMT as even BEST dont own Volvos.

Editorial decisions

Some things that need to be fixed:

• Alpha city listing is unnecessary in the lede, especially when it's covered in better format in the economy section. (I reverted once, but it was added with a ref, so I'll wait for consensus).
• Economy section, Mumbai's GDP is incorrect per the ref cited (curr ref 129). The value is for Mumbai metro area including Thane and other suburbs. Either that has to be mentioned explicitly (since we have Mumbai metropolitan area, I don't think that's right) or changed back to the Mumbai GDP value.

-SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 16:14, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Even I am against the mention of Alpha World City listing in the Lead. The primary reason being many people may not be aware of what is an Alpha World city. It is much better covered in the Economy section, with proper explanation. Secondly, how can a listing by the Loughborough University be given so much importance, so as to feature in the Lead. I am not challenging the reputation of the institution, but for such titles to feature in the Lead, we require a much global organization such as the United Nations.

Regarding that GDP thing, I find nothing wrong with it. It says According to Indicus Analytics, the current price GDP for the fiscal year 2006-07 stood at Rs 2,00,483 crore for Mumbai region, including suburban Mumbai and Thane, and contributed. It says suburban Mumbai, which means the Bombay suburbs like Andheri, Mulund, which are a part of Greater Bombay. It doesn't say it is the Bombay metropolitan region. Kensplanet^T_C 07:04, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Including it is fine, don't mention metro, but it needs to be noted that suburbs and Thane are included because Thane for sure isn't counted in Greater Bombay. I'm not hung up on terminology, just needs to be noted that it isn't exactly per the definition of Mumbai in the rest of the article. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 15:59, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

The terminology "Mumbai" might be confusing and can have many meanings. But for this article,
MUMBAI as an urban entity = Mumbai city district + Mumbai suburban district + Borivali National Park + Defence lands + Mumbai Port Trust lands + Forest lands + ....
The bold terms indicates Greater Bombay under the BMC, while others indicate areas under Indian Navy, Forest Department, out of the jurisdiction of the BMC. Anyway, Suburban Bombay is very much and a vital part of Bombay. The problem is only with Thane, which is not a part of Greater Bombay. Do you suggest adding a seperate section like Notes as in Europe article, where we can mention that even Thane is included. Kensplanet^T_C 18:46, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Yup, anything like that should suffice, either a consistent definition or a note explaining the inconsistencies would be good. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 21:05, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

By 'Mumbai Port Trust lands', I guess we mean just the 'port area' and not the other properties it owns like the big housing society at Wadala, the housing colony at Worli including the seafront, the housing colony at Colaba, the Radio club at Colaba, huge chunk of land at Govandi, the Taj mahal hotel (not exactly sure about this but i think its owned by MBPT) and others. For all you know, half of Colaba's eastern side must be owned by MbPT but on lease to others. Just my $0.02. Ninadhardikar (talk) 05:50, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

plz include

can you guys plz include heads of all major departments of mumbai govt. it is always good to see them included. and if marathi is official language then plz. do not fight over it. i would like to see some major sections to be written in marathi though i'm from delhi but i like marathi language too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.143.92.115 (talk) 08:45, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Population

Population statement in first paragraph clashes with List of cities proper by population. JBarta (talk) 14:49, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

List of cities proper by population needs to be updated as it uses the same source (World Gazetteer) for everything but Shanghai. According to WG, Shanghai has a population of 15,968,867. -SpacemanSpiff 15:37, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Dharavi Image

Please add your opinion here. Let's get consensus here about the best image for the Demographics section instead of edit waring on the main page.

Please wait for consensus here before adding any images on the main page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.62.185.149 (talk • contribs)

Image #1 Image #2 (current image)

Image #1 that you proposed is copyrighted and will soon be deleted as a copyvio. Abecedare (talk) 01:29, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Guess it's a moot point, but Image #2 (current image) is an obvious better choice for this article. The discussion is about Dharavi and not the plight of slum children. -SpacemanSpiff 05:18, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

I think everyone needs a proper introduction on Bo Yu or 70.62.185.149. He's had quite a history with the India related pages. Ofcourse his real user name is By78 and he has received his fair share of warnings for personal and racist attacks against other users as well as numerous blocks for sockpuppetry and disruptive edits. See [1][2][3] for a wealth of information and why I don't believe said user acts in good faith or in the best interests of Wikipedia.Vedant (talk) 23:37, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

lot of repetition is there

mumbai metropolitan is mentioned twice differently in diff section. lets change it. similarly many data are repeated

removal of ambiguity.

friends. lets remove ambiguity in this article.

First define Mumbai, whether we are considering city of Mumbai as "Mumbai city district" or as "Greater Mumbai"(which includes city district and Suburban District). I think word "greater mumbai" is obsolete and now on, We can consider area under the administration of BMC as "Mumbai" Referring to "Greater Mumbai" is unnecessary

so, in this article we should avoid frequent reference to "Mumbai Metropolitan Region" , instead we can create New section with name "Mumbai Metropolitan Area" and just include cities of Navi Mumbai,Thane and other smaller towns.

Your opinions pls.

mumbaikar (talk)