Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Brownhills

Brownhills

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 3, 2022 by Wehwalt (talk) 13:10, 28 February 2022 (UTC)



Brownhills is a town and former administrative centre in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, England. Before boundary changes in 1974, it was in the county of Staffordshire. The town lies close to the route of the ancient Watling Street. Although there is no record of its existence before the 17th century, Ogley Hay – a district of the town today – is recorded as a settlement in the Domesday Book. Brownhills quickly grew around the coal-mining industry, especially after the town was linked to the canal and railway networks in the mid-19th century. By the end of the century, Brownhills had grown from a hamlet of only 300 inhabitants to a town of more than 13,000, of whom the vast majority were employed in the coal industry. Mining remained the town's principal industry until the 1950s; the subsequent closure of the pits led to a severe economic decline that has continued until the present. The local authority instituted a regeneration programme in 2007, which was hoped would revive the town's fortunes, but there has been little subsequent development.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Shaw and Crompton on August 15.
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 * Promoted: November 28, 2007. Declared "Satisfactory" at WP:URFA/2020 in March 2021
 * Reasons for nomination: AFAIK, it has been several months since an article on a city or town with people actually living there has been featured on the main page. Hopefully, this article will help TFA diversity on the main page. I also want to highlight the great work at WP:URFA/2020, which has declared this article to meet FA standards without going to FAR.
 * Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 22:44, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:18, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. Hanif Al Husaini (talk) 02:57, 14 February 2022 (UTC)