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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- References? WP:CITE?
I'm minded to remove or seriously trim this section... Thanks/wangi 22:50, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
I hadn't noticed this discussion and just posted this in reply to somebody else adding this claim:
Hi, I have reverted your edit to the Wells article because:
- Many jurisdictions define any incorporated settlement as a city, meaning that in the United States, for example, there are thousands of cities smaller than Wells
- Even if we're only counting cathedral cities rather than legal cities, it took me seconds to find four that are smaller than Wells: The Vatican, St Davids, Kilkenny and Cobh.
Unless you can provide a reference to the contrary, I have to conclude that it's false. Joe D (t) 00:24, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
- I agree that referring to Wells in a world context is difficult, but search the Internet for "England's smallest city" and every result points to Wells. I think it is a justified claim to put that on the page. --Cheesy Mike 07:40, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
- Wells is to the South of the Mandips - It doesnt nestle in the Mendip Hills - It is not surrounded by the hills -
- Wells lies on the edge of the Mendip Hills, neither does it sit on the Mendip hills proper nor does it lie on the Somerset Levels, the nearby towns of Midsomer Norton and Radstock can be described as nestling. In Britain most cities happen to be the largest settlements in a locality, and are acknowledged by both the state and the people to have an important economic, political, or cultural significance. Wells is not the largest settlement in the area but has economic, political and cultural significance due to the presence of the cathedral. The City of London is part of the conurbation of Greater London, and is therefore widely discounted as a city in its own right, similarly to the British, Vatican City is part of Rome. Kilkenny has a population twice the size of Wells, and Cobh is no longer acknowledged by the Irish state. (Chaz smith (talk) 18:39, 23 February 2008 (UTC))
