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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)
As it stands just now, this section is simply a load of shite, sorry but it is:
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 think this article deserves to have a picture put into the infobox to appear at the top of the page - but which one should it be, either from those already in the article or form the related Commons category?— Rod talk 19:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
I've added File:Wells from cathedral tower.jpg to the article below (between Geography and Demography) for now. I thought about using it for the infobox, but at 240px the city view is just too small IMO. I also just uploaded File:Aerial view of Wells.jpg to commons, that might be a possibility, although it might be considered by some who? to be too cathedral-centric for this article. It would be nice to add it somewhere though, it's a rather good image; at this point I'm not sure where to put it so I'll defer to those who've been doing the bulk of the work here. Wine Guy ~Talk 07:28, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
I've been editing this article to try to bring it closer to the guidelines at WP:UKCITIES and would be interested in what other editors think is need to get it to meet the Wikipedia:Good article criteria? Obviously we need to expand the lead to summarise the article & reference (or remove) the uncited claims, but is there anything else which would be required?— Rod talk 22:22, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello. This editor says the business is based in Wells [1] (a bibliographical notice from the British Library gives "Draycott", but it is not far away) : "Siduri Books, a family-run business based in Wells in Somerset, was founded in 2008." Isn't it worth a mention ? Jacques Goliot — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.9.146.199 ( talk) 07:13, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Page moved. With the exception of one oppose, which seems so be based on a misreading of WP:PLURAL, all others are in favour of removing the primary topic. Note: the disambiguation page has not been moved yet. This requires admin assistance, which I have requested. ( non-admin closure) — Amakuru ( talk) 13:50, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
– This place looks adorable, and I love Hot Fuzz, but it's just nowhere near WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for such a common term. It's entirely possible that Google is Americanizing my results, but I get a grand total of two hits for the English city in the first 5 pages of wells -wikipedia. Nothing in the first give pages of a Books search either, where H. G. Wells and Ida B. Wells dominate. Also, the term is sufficiently ambiguous that the corresponding category is Category:Wells, Somerset. -- BDD ( talk) 00:14, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Alfred Perles - friend of Henry Miller and other well-known people in the Paris literary set of the 1930s. According to his Wikipedia article he changed his name to Alfred Barrett and lived in a housing estate in Wells. Henry Miller probably visited him there. 2.101.4.112 ( talk) 14:08, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
it is second only to the City of London in area and population, though not part of a larger urban agglomeration. I don't understand what this means. London has a huge population; Wells has a tiny population. Peter K Burian ( talk) 00:07, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
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Article currently reads "Wells Little Theatre is operated by a voluntary society which started in 1902. In 1989 they took over the old boy's building of Wells Blue School, where they put on a variety of operatic and other productions.[79]"
To my knowledge the 'voluntary society which started in 1902' began its occupation, use & conversion to current purposes of this building something nearer to 20 years earlier than 1989. I could believe it to be possible that the purchase of the building by the current company may have been completed in 1989 & that Wells Operatic Society may have previously been renting the building. The citation quoted for the article is a website which doesn't now appear to me to offer any clarification of this history. I don't wish to edit the article while not knowing the precise facts but I would assert that as written the article is blurring some history. 31.51.220.16 ( talk) 20:28, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
I was going to say something under the Alfred Perles section above but since that's now quite an old comment I thought we may as well have a section for anybody else that gets belatedly remembered
Ronald Corp - composer/conductor is notable enough to have a well established Wikipedia page. I can't provide a citation but can offer a memory that as a teenager he appeared on stage as a member of Wells Operatic Society. 31.51.220.16 ( talk) 20:43, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
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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)
As it stands just now, this section is simply a load of shite, sorry but it is:
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 think this article deserves to have a picture put into the infobox to appear at the top of the page - but which one should it be, either from those already in the article or form the related Commons category?— Rod talk 19:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
I've added File:Wells from cathedral tower.jpg to the article below (between Geography and Demography) for now. I thought about using it for the infobox, but at 240px the city view is just too small IMO. I also just uploaded File:Aerial view of Wells.jpg to commons, that might be a possibility, although it might be considered by some who? to be too cathedral-centric for this article. It would be nice to add it somewhere though, it's a rather good image; at this point I'm not sure where to put it so I'll defer to those who've been doing the bulk of the work here. Wine Guy ~Talk 07:28, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
I've been editing this article to try to bring it closer to the guidelines at WP:UKCITIES and would be interested in what other editors think is need to get it to meet the Wikipedia:Good article criteria? Obviously we need to expand the lead to summarise the article & reference (or remove) the uncited claims, but is there anything else which would be required?— Rod talk 22:22, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello. This editor says the business is based in Wells [1] (a bibliographical notice from the British Library gives "Draycott", but it is not far away) : "Siduri Books, a family-run business based in Wells in Somerset, was founded in 2008." Isn't it worth a mention ? Jacques Goliot — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.9.146.199 ( talk) 07:13, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Page moved. With the exception of one oppose, which seems so be based on a misreading of WP:PLURAL, all others are in favour of removing the primary topic. Note: the disambiguation page has not been moved yet. This requires admin assistance, which I have requested. ( non-admin closure) — Amakuru ( talk) 13:50, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
– This place looks adorable, and I love Hot Fuzz, but it's just nowhere near WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for such a common term. It's entirely possible that Google is Americanizing my results, but I get a grand total of two hits for the English city in the first 5 pages of wells -wikipedia. Nothing in the first give pages of a Books search either, where H. G. Wells and Ida B. Wells dominate. Also, the term is sufficiently ambiguous that the corresponding category is Category:Wells, Somerset. -- BDD ( talk) 00:14, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Alfred Perles - friend of Henry Miller and other well-known people in the Paris literary set of the 1930s. According to his Wikipedia article he changed his name to Alfred Barrett and lived in a housing estate in Wells. Henry Miller probably visited him there. 2.101.4.112 ( talk) 14:08, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
it is second only to the City of London in area and population, though not part of a larger urban agglomeration. I don't understand what this means. London has a huge population; Wells has a tiny population. Peter K Burian ( talk) 00:07, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
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Article currently reads "Wells Little Theatre is operated by a voluntary society which started in 1902. In 1989 they took over the old boy's building of Wells Blue School, where they put on a variety of operatic and other productions.[79]"
To my knowledge the 'voluntary society which started in 1902' began its occupation, use & conversion to current purposes of this building something nearer to 20 years earlier than 1989. I could believe it to be possible that the purchase of the building by the current company may have been completed in 1989 & that Wells Operatic Society may have previously been renting the building. The citation quoted for the article is a website which doesn't now appear to me to offer any clarification of this history. I don't wish to edit the article while not knowing the precise facts but I would assert that as written the article is blurring some history. 31.51.220.16 ( talk) 20:28, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
I was going to say something under the Alfred Perles section above but since that's now quite an old comment I thought we may as well have a section for anybody else that gets belatedly remembered
Ronald Corp - composer/conductor is notable enough to have a well established Wikipedia page. I can't provide a citation but can offer a memory that as a teenager he appeared on stage as a member of Wells Operatic Society. 31.51.220.16 ( talk) 20:43, 21 January 2019 (UTC)