Talk:Dipolog City

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[edit] Content Removal

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[edit] Shopping Centers

The under construction Lee Plaza on Quezon avenue.
The under construction Lee Plaza on Quezon avenue.
Frontview of Dipolog Center Mall.
Frontview of Dipolog Center Mall.
  • Lee Plaza on General Luna Street.
  • Dipolog Center on Mall. Rizal Avenue.
  • Dipolog Friendly on Mart.Quezon Avenue.
  • Lee Super Plaza(under construction) on Quezon Avenue.
  • Dipolog Shopping Center on Rizal Avenue.
  • Lyndsey Emporium (formerly Jerry's Shoppers World) on Rizal Avenue.
  • Mennens Gift Mart on Rizal Avenue.

[edit] Restaurants

  • Jollibee
  • Greenwich
  • Jos Chicken Inato
  • Top Diner
  • Sunburst Fried Chicken
  • Chicken Ati-atihan
  • Big Joes Burger
  • Chip'n Lechon Manok
  • Chowking (soon in the city)
  • CL Inn Fastfood
  • Seafoods Park and Native Delicacies
  • Tsibugan sa Dipolog
  • Tsibugan sa Boulevard
  • Seven Treasures Restaurant
  • Alison's Food Plaza
  • Festival Shopping Arcade Food Court
  • 1948 Cafeteria
  • Don's Pizza & Budget Meals
  • Friends Burger
  • Lion's Den
  • Morgia's BBQ & Lechon Manok
  • Roadside Cafe and Restaurant
  • Seafoods Park & Restaurant
  • Sylvia's Best Restaurant moon burst near (sunburts)
  • Rhekos Pizza
  • Shell Park and Remedios Restaurant
  • Cana's Cake Shop
  • Circus Caffe
  • Giacomino's Pizza
  • Inato Snack Bar
  • Grandma's Best Restaurant and Bakeshop
  • Turn Pike
  • Coup de Foudré
  • KenDoughMagic Kaffie —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.93.151.15 (talk) 07:27, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Home Developers

There are several home developers in the city that make it an ideal place to live both for Filipinos and foreigners:

  • Mediatrix Homes Inc.- the leading subdivision and housing developer in the city offers premium and luxurious types of houses.
  • Orchid Villas- own by Hozac Realty Corporation and one of the largest home developer in Zambonag Peninsula. All units are sold.
  • Jasmine Villas- another Villa develop by Hozac Realty Corporation.
  • Victoria Country Homes
  • Esperanza Village

[edit] Accommodations

There are 4 major hotels in the city, other pension houses and lodges offering economical and high class services:

1. Top Plaza Hotel in Echavez St. cor. Quezon Avenue is a 4-story building with restaurant on ground floor Tel. No.: (065) 212-5777/212-5888.

2. Hotel Camila in Gen. Luna Street Tel. No.: (065) 212-3009/212-3008.

3. Hotel Camila 2 in National Highway Turno.

4. Mibang Hotel in Mibang, Sta. Filomena Tel. No.: (065) 212-6689.

5. Top Plaza Pensionne

6. CL Inn in Rizal Avenue Tel. No.: (065) 212 3216.

7. Jagis Beach Resort & Recreation Center

8. Montano Inn & Catering Services

9. West End Court Inn

10. Village Hotel

12. Sea Breeze Sicayab 11. Chip'n by the sea

[edit] Medical Services

  • Zamboanga del Norte Medical Center
  • Dipolog City Hospital (Zamboanga del Norte Integrated Provincial Hospital)
  • Dipolog Medical Center Hospital, Sta. Filomena, Dipolog City. Tel. +63(65)212-2555
  • Ospital Ng Kabataan
  • Zamboanga del Norte Cooperative Hospital
  • Sta. Isabel General Hospital

[edit] Infrastructure

Current municipal projects include:

  • Completion of the second phase of Dipolog boulevard that will extend for 1 km or more.
  • Completion of Dipolog feeder port
  • Construction of Barra-Minaog bridge
  • Construction of the Cultural Center of the Philippines with a seating capacity of 10,000 to start early of 2008
  • Expansion of Dipolog Airport
  • Construction of Turno-Galas Road

[edit] Education

[edit] Colleges

  • Andres Bonifacio College (soon to be a university)
  • Dipolog Medical Center College Foundation
  • Jose Rizal Memorial State College (Dipolog branch)
  • Dipolog City Institute of Technology
  • Dipolog School of Fishery
  • Saint Vincent's College
  • STI College Dipolog
  • Dipolog Computer School Inc.

[edit] Communications

[edit] Cellular Networks

Cell phone network operators with coverage in the city:

SMART is the only operator that currently has a business center in the city. It is the favored service provider because of the public services offered through its business center. With the improving economic situation it is expected that the two other network operators will open their own business centers in the city to compete against SMART.

[edit] Television Stations

[edit] Radio stations

[edit] AM RADIO STATIONS

Call sign Frequency Operator Remarks
DXDR-AM 981 kHz RMN Networks
DXKD-AM 1053 kHz Radio Philippines Network first radio station established in the early 70's
DXXY-AM 1350 kHz Radio Global Media Arts suspended operation

[edit] FM RADIO STATIONS

Call sign Frequency Operator Remarks
DXFL 88.9 MHz First Love Broadcasting Network Inc. First Love Radio
DXBD 89.7 MHz Manila Broadcasting Company Hot-FM (operated by DMC Broadcasting System)
DXAA 92.5 MHz ABC Broadcasting System Inc.[1] Double A-Your Intelligent Radio
DXFB 93.3 MHz Consolidated Broadcasting System Star-FM (Bombo Radyo Philippines)
DXZZ 94.1 MHz RMN Networks i-fm
DXXY 94.9 MHz Global Media Arts Campus Radio (suspended operation)
DXAQ 95.9 MHz Times Broadcasting Network Q95 (first FM station)
DXBA 98.9 MHz Manila Broadcasting Company Love Radio-Kailangan pa bang i-memorize yan! (to operate soon)

Seav, those are some rather amazing edits you just made, without any discussion (as far as I can tell). Please see Wikipedia:Consensus. Perhaps the list of municipal projects section deserved to be removed due to this guideline. But everything else you deleted? I would encourage you to take a closer look at the no directory policy. Do you have anything to back up the removal other than your own rationale? If there has been some discussion that I've missed, then I apologize for my ignorance. --Jacintos 15:47, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Have you even read the Wikipedia is not a directory policy? It says there that we shouldn't list everything about the topic, especially if it's just going to look like a phonebook or business directory lists. A list of shopping centers with street addresses is a directory. A list of restaurants is a directory. Real estate developers, hotels and accomodations (with phone numbers?!), list of hospitals, TV stations, radio stations, etc.
What's acceptable is to write most of these, and their impact and importance with respect to Dipolog City, into a coherent piece of prose. Just because there's a Jollibee in Dipolog doesn't mean that we need to add Jollibee as a bullet point somewhere in the Dipolog City article. The aim is to create an encyclopedia article on Dipolog City, not a list of everything that can be seen in Dipolog City, even if it's true. Do you understand now? --seav 02:49, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
By the way, Consensus only applies when there is disagreement. Since there has been no discussion regarding the deletion of the lists in Dipolog City, there's no consensus to follow. Now that you're disagreeing, Jacintos, now is the time to discuss and build consensus. --seav 02:53, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I apologize, Seav, if I came over as a bit cross before. Of course, I would not have referred to the directory policy had I not read it thoroughly. I think I understand your rationale better now and I agree, having thought more about it, that certain sections may be beyond the scope of a Wikipedia article. On the other hand, I feel that other sections such as the ones on shopping centers, medical services, and education are quite useful in the discussion of Dipolog. Perhaps the main problem with these is their presentation. For example, I consider Makati as a rather good example of an article about a city. Yet it discusses shopping centers, transportation, and even includes a list of the educational institutions in the area. The difference in that case, however, is that the content is not presented solely in a list format. What do you think about the article on Makati? --Jacintos 06:12, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
It's ok. I understand how you feel about having your work deleted (but it's still in the history pages so nothing entered into this article is ever really deleted). I actually have yet to see a very good article written about a city in the Philippines. Among Wikipedia's Featured Articles and Good Articles, there is no Philippine city or municipality that's made the cut yet. (Check those pages out to look for nice examples of well-written articles about cities/towns/municipalities to get inspiration.) The Makati City article is useful, though it's a bit directory-ish in some places. It still needs quite a bit of work to be accepted into the Good Article criteria.
Anyway, you might want to see a very related discussion on Talk:Zamboanga City. Thevarious lists in that city's article were also deleted and there's an effort to rewrite and create coherent paragraphs from those lists. See the Tourism section for example.
If you want a place to write travel-guide-like information about Dipolog City, the Wikitravel page on Dipolog would certainly need your help. There you can create a directory of all places to eat (but of course, you should highlight some recommendations at the top), all the hotels to sleep in with phone numbers and prices as well. --seav 06:37, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Interesting. I wish I had seen that part of the Zamboanga City talk page earlier. I'm adding the content you removed to this discussion page for the benefit of others who might wonder what happened to the content (and so it won't be reduplicated unnecessarily). --Jacintos 20:08, 12 November 2007 (UTC)