Talk:Wells

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This article contains an inordinate amount of pure speculation! Can anyone confirm or deny any of the claims? akaDruid 16:50, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

This article gives the population of the City of London as 8000, whereas the City of London article itself says less than 9000. I don't know which is more accurate. Madda 10:26, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Wells is certainly generally considered to be the smallest city in England, since London is only a part of the largest conurbation in England and the city (as opposed to "The City") is usually considered to be the whole of Greater London, as in any other world city. -- Necrothesp 17:37, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] England's smallest city

As it stands just now, this section is simply a load of shite, sorry but it is:

It is England's smallest city with a population of around 10,000. It is the second smallest city in the UK after a city in Wales, St. Davids, and the third smallest city in the world (the smallest city in the world being in America)The square mile of the city of London is acutely smaller than Wells. Thus Wells is in fact the second smallest city in England.

1. How can somewhere be the second smallest city in the UK and England when the smallest is in Wales?! By reading this paragraph you'd come to the possible conculsion it's the 3rd smallest.
2. Many cities in the US are under 10k in population - it's quite normal given city status is basically just an incorporated local government. For example I drove through Calvert, Texas last week, a city with just 1,426 population - and it wasn't the smallest city I went through.
3. References? WP:CITE?

I'm minded to remove or seriously trim this section... Thanks/wangi 22:50, 15 July 2006 (UTC)