Talk:Imperial City

   I don't think i'm about to do anything that doesn't follow intuitively from the foundational Wiki concept. (I'll try to be on the look out for my doing so -- and to make my less-than-immediately-obvious argument, as to why my reason for the change ought to be nevertheless treated as a corollary.)
--Jerzy•t 08:20, 9 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

==Other==

It can also be a generic term for a major city that dominates the economic activities of a large region and which also builds impressive public and private structures and cultural institutions, even if it possesses a democratic government within the framework of a larger republic (for example, as described in the book Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin by Gray Brechin).

   I also created a stubby article on that author, but the above content certainly does not belong on the Dab page. I'm thinking about a title for a stub or two that could be rescued out of that content (which IMO probably should not simply be discarded), and said stub/article(s) might have a close relationship to the Dab. And Imperial San Francisco could at least briefly discuss his topic and its reception. (Perhaps he posits a cause and effect relationship for processes that follow the colon...?) Ideas, anyone?
--Jerzy•t 13:30, 9 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

   My first take was "Yeah, of course Rome is the Imperial City, but i was thinking of the Eternal City, and frankly i hope a rigorous examination would show that the sum of the significances of all the realworld "imperial cities" outweighs the Minecraft undertaking of the same name. And the MoS says that's the default, so there's nothing remiss in my deferring to the default, and leaving it to anyone with the interest to do the work of trying to find evidence that refs to the game's IC constitute not just a plurality but a majority of uses.
--Jerzy•t 13:35, 9 August 2017 (UTC)Reply