This article is yet another example of the dreadful standard of this website The article is very poor to think they were considering it as a featured article The line about Birmingham is widely considered to be the second city is just laughable It is the second city There is no debate about that I changed it to is the second city and the website editors came along and told me thanks for experimenting now use the sandbox For a start that is an incredibley patronising way to speak to someone and on this instance it was entirely unjustified Wikipedia is dreadful user My Box