   ==The Winds of  Edit Wars== Ah, that article is getting around! I have been watching the move of List of metropolitan areas by population to List of metropolitan areas by population (Forstall) to List of metropolitan areas by population (FGP) and back, along with a Gordian Knot of redirects with – detached – interest.    I’ve said it before, I say it again: This article is perverting Forstall. The three gentlemen had a noble cause. “Why lists of major urban areas vary so greatly.” Then they made a mistake, made their own list. And before you know it, it gets a Wikipedia article titled List of metropolitan areas by population . This title is disingenuous. It tricks people into thinking that this is what it appears to be, a list of metropolitan areas by population. People are being fooled so much that they endlessly attempt to update a list that shouldn’t be updated.  Forstall et al may be worth to be treated as an artifact of history. If possible, the list should be edit blocked. But the title must reflect what it is: List of metropolitan areas by population according to Forstall, Greene, and Pick. It is definitely not a  List of metropolitan areas by population.  Everything else is just wrong. It is also interesting that Wikipedia’s trite and true “consensus” is being invoked with nary a word on the discussion page.   Triplespy, whoever he may be, had the right intentions: That article needs the proper name. List of metropolitan areas by population  does not reflect the source.  If List of metropolitan areas by population (Forstall)  isn’t  accepted, how  about “Ancient and outdated list of metropolitan areas by population, produced after all other lists had failed?” Not good? How about “How to forestall the compilation of lists of metropolitan areas by population , once and for all?”   If you want consensus, Triplespy has my vote.    