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Found various references to 'Yorkshire and Humberside' economic region in the 1960s and stuff, well before the idea of a cross-Humber county council was mooted. Appears to have covered West & East Ridings and Lindsey. Morwen - Talk 08:21, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Recently? 2 Seat 3 Restructure 4 So 5 References needed

[edit] Recently?

The north east referendum was a good few years ago now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomashauk (talk • contribs) 18:37, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

There never was a referendum in Yorkshire and the Humber, so I think that is best disguarded from the article. Epa101 (talk) 22:17, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Seat

What's the seat of the region?

Has to be London, since its a southern invention not a genuine region. - Yorkshirian (talk) 14:03, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Assembly meets 18 King Street, Wakefield, WF1 2SQ--Harkey Lodger (talk) 10:59, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Restructure

I would like to restructure this article as follows:-

Contents

1 Local government

2 Demographics

2.1 Population, Density and Settlements

2.2 Ethnicity

2.3 Place of Birth

2.4 Religion

2.5 Language and dialect

3 Important cities and towns

4 Elected regional assembly

5 European Parliament

6 History

7 Prior to formation of the Yorkshire and the Humber

8 After formation of the Yorkshire and the Humber

9 Transport

9.1 Road

9.1.1 Regionwide

9.1.2 West Yorkshire

9.1.3 The East Riding of Yorkshire

9.1.4 North Yorkshire

9.1.5 South Yorkshire

9.1.6 Lincolnshire

9.2 Air

9.3 Rail

9.4 Sea

10 Economy

11 Education

11.1 Secondary Education

11.2 Colleges

11.3 Universities

12 Local media

13 Town and City Twinnings

14 Football

15 Rugby League

16 See also

17 References

18 External links

This would bring it in line with the North West Region.

Any comments please?--Harkey Lodger (talk) 12:27, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

7 and 8 need to be subsets of 6. 15 and 16 need to be subsets of a "Sport" category, surely also including Cricket if not other sports? 1,4,5 need to be adjacent, perhaps? How does that lot compare with Wikipedia:WikiProject_UK_geography/How_to_write_about_counties? OK that's counties, not regions, but I'd think there is enough in common that it might be useful to follow those guidelines. PamD (talk) 12:35, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I agree with the suggestions about the structure. I'm not too sure about Wikipedia:WikiProject_UK_geography/How_to_write_about_counties as there is already an article about the historic county which is quite anachronistic in its approach.--Harkey Lodger (talk) 12:47, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] So

Contents

1 Local government

2 Elected regional assembly

3 European Parliament

4 Demographics

4.1 Population, Density and Settlements

4.2 Ethnicity

4.3 Place of Birth

4.4 Religion

4.5 Language and dialect

5 History

5.1 Prior to formation of the Yorkshire and the Humber

5.2 After formation of the Yorkshire and the Humber

6 Transport

6.1 Road

6.1.1 Regionwide

6.1.2 West Yorkshire

6.1.3 The East Riding of Yorkshire

6.1.4 North Yorkshire

6.1.5 South Yorkshire

6.1.6 Lincolnshire

6.2 Air

6.3 Rail

6.4 Sea

7 Major cities and towns

8 Economy

9 Education

9.1 Secondary Education

9.2 Colleges

9.3 Universities

10 Local media

11 Town and City Twinnings

12 Sport

12.1 Cricket

12.2 Football

12.3 Rugby League

13 See also

14 References

15 External links

If this is acceptable I'll rearrange the content in the next few days, commenting out the unfilled headings ready for adding and editing text as needed.--Harkey Lodger (talk) 20:53, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] References needed

Much of the text which has been pasted from the previous layout is unsourced. Can anyone help with sources, particularly for statistics, please?--Harkey Lodger (talk) 17:51, 4 May 2008 (UTC)