Talk:Legazpi, Albay

message: Does this ABC station stand for the American Broadcasting Company??  Jaberwocky6669 00:02, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
:No, there's also a Philippine television station named ABC. TheCoffee 05:34, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm...I couldn't find out. It may just not stand for anything at all, aside from being the first 3 letters of the alphabet. Try Googling for "ABC 5" Philippines TheCoffee 18:43, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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message: There is another Legazpi to the Northwest near Lingayen Gulf.  Encarta's maps show that city as Legazpi and this one as Legaspi.  I'm reading my uncle's memoir of his experience in WWII and he states that the Japanese landed at Legaspi, Lingayen and Desmortes.  Since the other Legazpi is inland, I figure the landing must have been at this one.
May I say ascribing to Legazpi as "de facto capital of the Bicol Region" is rather a difficult & baseless proposition, a preposterous claim considering the presence of a more preeminent & progressive Bicolano city in Naga (per international and national recognition awards received, no. of bank offices and size of total deposits per central bank statistics, infrastructure, etc.)  From my very frequent travels to, readings, and personal knowledge of the two places, it would certainly appear that Legazpi is anything but the "de facto capital".--Bicololdtimer 07:06, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Legazpi 

message: After assiduously reviewing the article, I am constrained to tag it as unreferenced.  A lot of the information given are simply  inaccurate.  For one, alluding to Legazpi as de facto capital of Bicol is simply not right, even outrageous.  The city may be the location of several government regional offices, but that does not make it capital of the Bicol region which does not exist strictly as a political entity.  These regional offices have no administrative supervision over the individual local government units (LGU’s) in the region.  There is no regional government/ governor that would locate a capital effectively defining a seat or center of political power fixed by law.  In this light, the description “political center” may still be acceptable, but “capital” would really be inaccurate. Secondly, Legazpi as “academic” center is a hilarious, trying-hard description. (Perhaps because the admittedly more progressive Bicol city,  Naga, with 6 universities has
already owned to the tag “educational center of Bicol” so our editor had to be creative and mustered “academic”. Funny.)  The 3 universities cited are in fact only 2 since Divine Word College is not even a university.  Bicol University came into being with 2 of its original colleges located in my own hometown of Daraga.  With only 2 universities, how can the city be the regional “academic” center?  Finally, declaring  the number 80 as the number of schools in the city is really so simple and easy.  Perhaps the tag “elementary and secondary school center of Bicol” would be more appropriate in that case if we can prove it.
Another erroneous attribution is Legazpi’s being THE top tourist destination in Bicol.  Latest official Dept. of Tourism (DOT) statistics show Camarines Sur/ Naga City with Camarines Sur Watersports Complex and various conventions & meets have surpassed Legazpi and/or Albay by a mile in tourist arrivals since last year 2006.  Please refer to following site  http://www.wowphilippines.com.ph/dot/statistics.asp for this.  Our provincial and city leaders better wake up!
This is a wake-up call, so may I invite editors to come forward and join hands in giving only correct information on this fair city to give justice to what to me is certainly Bicol’s cleanest, if not most beautiful city.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Metro Daraga (talk • contribs) 06:26, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreferenced 

message: There is too much comparison being done between Legazpi and Naga. The two cities complement (not "compliment") each other as they belong to the same region. Legazpi is the regional center of Bicol as most of the government centers are located in the city. All talks about Naga City are irrelevant and should be avoided as this page describes everything any person needs to know about Legazpi City, and not about Naga City. The previous assertions about Naga City being the real economic hub of the Bicol Region are not supported by any reliable evidence. The number of banks and other establishments do not show clearly how it is the real economic hub of Bicol. What appears to be the truth still needs to be seen in the future, not in the form of number of banks and other establishments but in the form of real economic facts such as GDRP and other economic indicators.103.14.62.233 (talk) 03:11, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legazpi vs Naga please end the discussion 

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message: My recent edit to Legazpi, Albay, particularly changing the small case 'm' to a capital 'M' was tagged as vandalism. I became a resident of this Barangay in 1965, which was formerly a part of the old 1960s Regan Barracks.When my parents transferred abode here, there were only a few houses within the vicinity. EM's Barrio, or formally the Enlisted Men's Barrio of Reagan Barracks, became the site where the enlisted men of the military camp put their houses up initially. During Pres. Marcos reign, barangays were formed all over the country and Enlisted Men's Barrio became Barangay 1 of Legazpi City. People flocked to Barangay 1 which was most near Bicol University, the premier state university in Legazpi then and now. Apparently, the barangay residents got tired of calling the place as Enlisted Men's Barrio because there were more non-military residents than the number of enlisted men who resided there. So, Barangay 1 was colloquially called EM's Barrio. 
Although Reagan Barracks was renamed as Camp Bagong Ibalon in 1971, see PRO5 History, Enlisted Men's Barrio was still Enlisted Men's Barrio to the old timers, or EM's Barrio,  for short. In 
1991, the camp was renamed 'Camp General Simeon A. Ola', yet Barangay 1 retained its name as Enlisted Men's Barrio. 
Through the years, with the influx of people and transient students in the area formerly called  Enlisted Men's Barrio, it was then popularly called as EM's Barrio or more formally, just Barangay 1.
I only edited this particular portion of Legazpi, Albay because such usage of Em's Barrio also affects the Places in Facebook. If the same practice of calling my home place, Enlisted Men's Barrio, will continue to be Em's Barrio in Facebook, there will come a time that people will wonder who was Em.
Do pray tell, dear editors, how could this simple edit "m" to "M" be called vandalism? 
ABdA (talk) 17:00, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, I am the one who rolled back your edit.  My apologies.  The problem is there was no reference for me to verify if is real or not.  My reference is the Philippine Standard Geographic Code which spells it as 'Em'.  Any reference why it is 'Enlisted Men' would have helped.  From somebody who is not that familiar with Legazpi, it might appear as phony. I am just guarding the page from further vandalism.  If you check the history page, the article was heavily vandalized since April. So please, add a useful reference per WP:Verifiability, not truth and WP:Verifiability.  Thanks. Briarfallen (talk) 19:26, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

text: Hi, there is no problem with EM. I have seen it changed from Em to EM on the internet, what made me doubt was the "Enlisted Men" (for a barrio name??) and that made me rolled it back.  Again, I apologize for judging it as vandalism, but that's what I felt that night reading it for the first time.  Wikipedia is now a very strong tool and used by a lot of websites as reference (without checking the references). Unfortunately, Wikipedia could also be a source of misinformation for the same reason. One good example is on Mount Pinatubo, some user changed the name of a mountain range of Pinatubo from Cabusilan Mountains to Tri-Cabusilan Mountains in 2009. I just caught it early this year but if you do an internet search on Tri-Cabusilan, it still shows up, all sourced from Wikipedia.  So, if you are unsure about some facts, my suggestion is not put it (WP:verifiability, not truth); the credibility of Wikipedia is at stake. By the way, WikiPilipinas is not part of Wikipedia. Thanks.Briarfallen (talk) 14:06, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Em's to EM's: A vandalism? 

message: Kindly advise if the refimprove tag is still necessary. Thanks! --Dexbaldon (talk) 02:49, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  RE: refimprove tag 

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