Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire

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Welcome to the Yorkshire WikiProject.

We are a group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Yorkshire, England, including the counties of North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire and the cities of Kingston upon Hull, York, Sheffield, Leeds, and Bradford.

Yorkshire
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Goal

The goal of this WikiProject is to provide coverage of subjects pertaining to Yorkshire by creating, assessing, improving upon and monitoring articles and lists about Yorkshire.

Scope

This project supports any pages related to the county of Yorkshire. We acknowledge the efforts and work of other projects, and will focus our attention on those articles which do not fall within the scope of any other active regional project.

Shortcuts: WP:Yorks WP:YORKS

[edit] Aims

Please discuss this section on the talk page.

Specific aims for the project are:-

To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles
To recruit more active editors
To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

[edit] Members

Please feel free to add yourself at the end of this list, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. Click here to edit list.

User name	Date	Interests
Tellyaddict (talk · contribs) redirects to Qst (talk · contribs)	19:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
adamjhepton (talk · contribs)	09:12, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Aaronsharpe (talk · contribs)	10:57, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Willow177 (talk · contribs)	15:53, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Derek R Bullamore (talk · contribs)	18:40, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Bduke (talk · contribs)	10:37, 10 April 2007 (UTC)	While living now in Australia, I was born and brought up in Sheffield. I have a particular interest in the Yorkshire Dales and South Yorkshire.
JeremyA (talk · contribs)	21:37, 10 April 2007 (UTC)	Note however that Wikipedia:WikiProject Sheffield has been established for about a year, is fairly active, and its members have to a certain extent been looking after articles covering subjects within the whole of South Yorkshire. So communication with that project on issues that affect South Yorkshire articles would be appreciated by its members (of which I am one).
Adambro (talk · contribs)	14:49, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Teh Ferret (talk · contribs)	19:39, 26 April 2007 (UTC)	yes i think this would be a much appreciated project
Sfgreenwood (talk · contribs)	10:52, 2 May 2007 (UTC)	Leeds, particularily the north side, Aireborough and Wharfedale
Glyndev (talk · contribs)	00:38, 8 May 2007 (UTC)	Great idea to have what could become a massive central information repository for the largest county in the country.
Keith D (talk · contribs)	22:02, 11 May 2007 (UTC)	Mainly articles covering East Riding of Yorkshire
Mdcollins1984 (talk · contribs)	09:46, 16 May 2007 (UTC)	Support, but rather busy at the moment
Harkey Lodger (talk · contribs)	17:26, 18 May 2007 (UTC)	Mainly articles on "Natural Areas" of the old County of Yorkshire but some specific work on villages, towns and rivers.
Roosterrulez (talk · contribs)	15:11, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
GuillaumeTell (talk · contribs)	21:33, 19 May 2007 (UTC)	Interested mainly in York and Leeds.
Jorvik (talk · contribs)	15:12, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Nate1481 (talk · contribs)		Bradford & Bradford Uni
lewisskinner (talk · contribs)		- most Sheffield and West Riding-related articles
PamD (talk · contribs)	16:47, 3 June 2007 (UTC)	Leeds and general tidying
Kaly99 (talk · contribs)	19:36, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Wikityke (talk · contribs)	12:14, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Chappy84 (talk · contribs)	18:08, 7 June 2007 (UTC)	Sport In The County, The County, Leeds, York.
Yorkshire Phoenix (talk · contribs)	20:10, 16 July 2007 (UTC)	historic county, history, regiments, cricket, rugby league.
Jack (talk · contribs)	17:43, 21 July 2007 (UTC)	Generally football, but some areas of Sheffield also.
Doonhamer (talk · contribs)	23:49, 29 July 2007 (UTC)	(Articles concerned with Kingston upon Hull primarily, but also other Yorkshire-related articles to a lesser degree)
Bkpip (talk · contribs)	05:09, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Philbuck222 (talk · contribs)	22:57, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
MRacer (talk · contribs)	23:32, 22 September 2007 (UTC)	Basically, all of North Yorkshire, including the areas of the Teesside conurbation historically a part of it, plus some very specific areas with which I have some personal familiarity and/or pride, such as Hambleton district etc.
Peanut4 (talk · contribs)	22:27 5 October 2007 (UTC)	Bradford City, Bradford, other parts of Bradford and cleaning up anything I stumble upon.
Chilkoot (talk · contribs)	18:03, 12 October 2007 (UTC)	Moor Grange and West Park
Harris Morgan (talk · contribs)	15:46, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Gaia Octavia Agrippa (talk · contribs)	16:44, 17 November 2007 (UTC)	Anything to do with N Yorks.
Malcolmxl5 (talk · contribs)	10:13, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Jcuk (talk · contribs)	00:22, 30 November 2007 (UTC)	Mainly Knaresborough, Harrogate, Nidderdale areas, also anything to do with James Herriot, being a somewhat obssessive fan and working at the World Of James Herriot museum!
Yorkshirian (talk · contribs)	23:12, 20 December 2007 (UTC)	History, sport, nature, nobility, religious figures, noted figures, anything really.
Cyberdemon007 (talk · contribs)	20:34, 28 December 2007 (UTC)	Mostly settlement related
Pamela Gardiner (talk · contribs)		Mostly art related
Trogg2 (talk · contribs)	17:56, 21 March 2008 (UTC)	Anything to do with the Yorkshire Dales, Malhamdale, Malham and Yorkshire Food
Jetsetradio (talk · contribs)
Paulrach (talk · contribs)
ObscureFruits (talk · contribs)	10:45, 28 April 2008 (UTC)	South Yorkshire
Dr Greg (talk · contribs)	12:10, 29 April 2008 (UTC)	Near the Lancashire border, especially railway history
Johnbibby (talk · contribs)	07:42, 17 May 2008 (UTC)	Particularly interested in the scientific history of Yorkshire - am working fairly actively on Elmfield College and Karl Pearson's family who came from Crambe and had links with Danby and Rosedale. Also interested in local history of Heworth and the (expunged) working class history of York.
Ahjet (talk · contribs)	10:01, 17 May 2008 (UTC)	History, Holderness and the Wolds
Ukrr (talk · contribs)	10:24, 30 May 20008 (UTC)	Articles concerning Staxton, North Yorkshire
almost-instinct (talk · contribs)	14:49, 8 June 2008 (UTC)	Philip Larkin

[edit] Userbox

This user is a member of WikiProject Yorkshire.

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Yorkshire}}
to their userpages to identify themselves as members of the project.

Johnbibby (talk) 07:39, 17 May 2008 (UTC) Particularly interested in the scientific history of Yorkshire - am working fairly actively on Elmfield College and Karl Pearson's family who came from Crambe and had links with Danby and Rosedale. Also interested in local history of Heworth and the (expunged) working class history of York.

[edit] Portal:Yorkshire

Portals are pages intended to serve as "Main Pages" for specific topics or areas. Portals may be associated with one or more WikiProjects; unlike WikiProjects, however, they are meant for both readers and editors of Wikipedia, and should promote content and encourage contribution.

Portal:Yorkshire

[edit] Creating articles

[edit] Guidelines

How to write about settlements

How to write about counties

How to write about rivers

How to write about people

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Yorkshire-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for Yorkshire, so that the articles will appear there.

[edit] Did you know (DYK?)

Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

... that the lifting of the Siege of Hull in 1643 was marked by an annual public holiday in Hull, England, until the Restoration? - Featured 10 June 2008
... that Fountains Fell, a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, England, is named after Fountains Abbey whose monks grazed sheep there in the 13th century? - Featured 30 May 2008
...that the Rotunda Museum houses one of the foremost collections of Jurassic geology on the Yorkshire Coast? - Featured 24 May 2008
...that English writer Anne Brontë is buried in Scarborough, and not in Haworth with all her family? - Featured 15 March 2008
...that Bradford City Football Club blamed their FA Cup exit in the 1919–20 season on a pre-game trip to Fry's chocolate works? - Featured 25 February 2008
...that the charitable Sheffield Town Trust funded a cricket match which aimed to "prevent the infamous practice of throwing at cocks"? - Featured 14 February 2008
...that the rivalry between Leeds United and Manchester United football clubs has its roots in the 15th century English civil war, the Wars of the Roses? - Featured 14 February 2008
...that the Yorkshire Museum paid £2.5 million pounds for an item found in Yorkshire using a metal detector? - Featured 19 October 2007.
...that Denton Hall (pictured), once the home of General Fairfax, the English Civil War commander-in-chief, was later sold for less than the value of the timber on the estate? - Featured 8 September 2007.
...that the Maritime Museum in Kingston upon Hull, England, houses the largest collection of scrimshaw artwork in Europe? - Featured 8 August 2007.

...that an estimated 20 people died after eating peppermint humbugs that were accidentally been made with arsenic in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning? - Featured 21 February 2007

[edit] Assessment and review of articles

Assessment area of the project - this linked page rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.

Click on the coloured areas in the table below to show a list of articles in each category.

Yorkshire articles		Importance
Yorkshire articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA	2		6	2	10
	FL				7	7
	GA	1	5	5	4	15
	B	7	35	84	43	169
	Start	5	35	284	527	851
	Stub		10	170	2300	2480
	List		2	10	42	54
	Assessed	15	87	559	2925	3586
	Total	15	87	559	2925	3586

These links provide further information about the status of articles: Index · Statistics · Log

For an explanation of the more formal review process see: Peer review

[edit] Improving articles

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire:

edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:

Requests: Take photographs, Write about The Spa, Scarborough
Copyedit: Yorkshire
Verify: Henry Moore, Golden Fleece Inn, York, Yorkshire Forward
Expand: Beverley, Huddersfield Choral Society, Opera North, Coppergate Shopping Centre, Francis Jackson, Newburgh Priory, Pearson Park
Stubs: Craven, Hambleton, Scarborough (borough), and more
Other: Wakefield Express

The above todo box has the following elements which can be edited:

 |requests=
 |copyedit=
 |wikify=
 |merge=
 |cleanup=
 |expand=
 |disambiguation=
 |stubs=
 |update=
 |npov=
 |verify= 
 |other=

Please try to be specific in making requests.

For the talk pages of Yorkshire stubs, see Category:Stub-Class Yorkshire articles

[edit] Monitoring articles

All members should always feel free to patrol the recent changes list to note improvements to, changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.

[edit] Articles of note

[edit] Featured articles

These articles on Yorkshire-related subjects have featured article status, although not necessarily achieved through the work of this WikiProject. Currently there are ten Yorkshire featured articles.

Sheffield • History of Sheffield • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • York City F.C. • M62 motorway • Henry Moore • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • Caedmon

[edit] Featured article candidates

The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:

Last of the Summer Wine

[edit] Peer review

The following articles are on review at Peer review:

William Wilberforce see review
Middlesbrough F.C. see review
History of Bradford City A.F.C. see review

[edit] Good articles (GA)

The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:

Sean Bean • Hull City A.F.C. • KC Stadium • Middlesbrough F.C. • Leeds Country Way • York Museum Gardens • History of York City F.C. • KitKat Crescent • Edwin of Northumbria • Last of the Summer Wine • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • William Wilberforce • Robin Hood • Battle of Marston Moor • William of York

Under review

[edit] Lists of note

[edit] Featured lists

These articles on Yorkshire-related subjects have featured list status, not necessarily achieved through the work of this WikiProject.

[edit] Featured list candidates (FLC)

The following lists are in review as Featured list candidates:

None at this time.

[edit] Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Delisted Good Articles

[edit] Templates

[edit] Stubs

NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub template, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.

[edit] Other templates

{{WikiProject Yorkshire}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar.

{{WikiProject Yorkshire}} looks like this:

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire is within the scope of WikiProject Yorkshire, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Yorkshire on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project, see a list of open tasks, and join in discussions on the project's talk page.

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{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Sidebar}} gives a sidebar which can be added to your user page for shortcuts to sections of the project pages.
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Things you can do

Here are some open tasks:

Meta-task:

Place the {{WikiProject Yorkshire}} template on the talk page of articles within the scope of this project.

Articles about Yorkshire that currently have issues needing resolution:

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[edit] Categories

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