The name and city status being transferred to the new district is an indication that it was Leeds being expanded, and this is how it was viewed at the time 
 #A merged article meets NPOV as it does not try to define the settlement, which has in the past been a POV issue 
 #There are a number of good editors who have shown strong collective will to get numerous other places up to GA/FA. Leeds has not benefited from this, so it is not correct to compare the situations