Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire

cellpadding="5" style="width: 80%; margin: 4px auto; background-color:#CCF; padding: 0.5em; border: 3px solid #000080; border-radius:20px;"

style="width:50px;" | 100px

| 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, Bradford, Wakefield, Doncaster, and Ripon.

style="width:50px;" | {{Portal|Yorkshire}}

| 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.

style="width:50px;" | {{Shortcut|WP:Yorks|WP:YORKS|WP:YORK}}

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

Members

[[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

Creating articles

=Guidelines=

How to write about settlements

How to write about counties

How to write about rivers

How to write about people

=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.

= 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 on the Main Page.

... that gym teacher Harold Styan of Clifton House School was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to youth? – Featured 9 January 2025
... that although sculptor Frances Darlington (pictured) was known for her painted relief panels, she also designed a railway poster? – Featured 24 July 2024
... that a gunman who, in 1960, shot three people dead in Sheffield, England, was deported to Somalia, where he was killed in a shoot-out while "running amok"? – Featured 15 July 2024
... that Laura Veale was the first woman to practise as a doctor in the town of Harrogate? – Featured 7 July 2024
... that Thorpe{{`s}} secluded hills provided refuge from Scottish raiders and English Civil War troops? – Featured 20 April 2024
... that the Love Island series 8 contestant Tasha Ghouri went viral in early 2024 after uploading a video to TikTok using her "deaf accent"? – Featured 24 March 2024
... that before becoming a jungle musician, Nia Archives wanted to be an archaeologist? – Featured 6 February 2024
... that Charlotte Haining was an International Jury Member for the selection of Finland's 2020 Eurovision Song Contest entry? – Featured 25 September 2023
... that the Leeds 13{{`s}} attempt at staging a holiday at Leeds University Union's expense was taken literally by the British press? – Featured 23 July 2023
... that Carol Thomas began her football career at the age of 11, while the sport was still banned for women? – Featured 22 July 2023
... that Kyren Wilson won the first four {{cuegloss|frame|frames}} in all of his matches at the 2023 Tour Championship? – Featured 15 May 2023
... that The Noble Fisherman unusually places Robin Hood in the seaside town of Scarborough, and he ends up fighting French pirates? – Featured 19 April 2023
... that Nottingham Forest's victory in the 2022 EFL Championship play-off final gained them promotion to the Premier League for the first time in 23 years? – Featured 2 April 2023
... that the Highfield Cocoa and Coffee House in Sheffield, England, sold tea, coffee and cocoa at a penny a pint and also provided billiards and reading rooms? – Featured 25 February 2023
... that Ye Olde White Harte, reputed to be "one of Hull's most haunted pubs", has a skull of unknown provenance (pictured) in the bar? – Featured 8 January 2023
... that Gary Wilson threw his {{cuegloss|cue stick}} to the floor in anger at the 2022 UK Championship? – Featured 11 December 2022
... that Rockstar Leeds was once based at a decommissioned church? – Featured 23 October 2022
... that writer Malcolm Neesam was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Harrogate, England, by the town council for services to local history? – Featured 20 October 2022
... that a miniature book written by a 13-year-old sold for over $1 million? – Featured 20 August 2022
... that botanist William West{{`s}} elder son William West Jr assisted him with fieldwork, and his younger son George Stephen West collaborated with him on numerous scientific publications? – Featured 4 June 2022
... that when viewed from above, Scale Lane Footbridge looks like an apostrophe? – Featured 12 April 2022
... that copper thieves started a fire at Dalton Mills in 2011 while trying to burn off the insulation? – Featured 20 March 2022
... that the Sons of Neptune sailed a giant toilet down the River Thames? – Featured 15 March 2022
... that businessman and activist Matthew Glover{{`s}} charity challenged Pope Francis to become a vegan for Lent? – Featured 29 January 2022
... that staff at the vegan food brand VFC interact with internet trolls on social media platforms to grow their online brand? – Featured 28 January 2022
... that while his brother carried on the family photography business, Thomas Holroyd went into painting and later created The Dyeworks (pictured)? – Featured 13 December 2021
... that the 4.5-ton marble statue of Queen Victoria (pictured) in Harrogate's Jubilee Memorial was carved by the British sculptor William John Seward Webber? – Featured 12 December 2021
... that when Margaret de Longvillers married into the House of Neville, her wealth consolidated its position in English society? – Featured 8 December 2021
... that James Milner once held the title of the Premier League's youngest goal scorer? – Featured 7 October 2021
... that both finalists at the 2008 World Snooker Championship made maximum breaks during the tournament? – Featured 2 September 2021
... that although Vlad the Impaler (pictured) and Elizabeth Báthory are popularly believed to have inspired Dracula, Bram Stoker's notes mention neither figure? – Featured 4 August 2021
... that when the Leeds Tiger (pictured) went on display in Leeds in 1863 it was described as a "work of art quite as much as an object for scientific observation"? – Featured 24 July 2021
... that Ripon Spa Baths is the only spa in the United Kingdom to have been ceremonially opened by a member of the royal family? – Featured 23 July 2021
... that The Hidden People by Alison Littlewood is based on the 1895 incident in Ireland where Bridget Cleary was burnt alive by her husband, who believed she was a fairy changeling? – Featured 19 July 2021
... that the 2021 Challenge Cup Final between Castleford and St Helens today will be played at a half-full Wembley Stadium? – Featured 17 July 2021
... that rugby league's Hull F.C. forced rugby union's Hull KR out of their home ground by paying triple the rent before the teams became part of rugby league's Hull Derby? – Featured 15 July 2021
... that botanist and "great Yorkshire character" John Farrah reprimanded greedy plant collectors in such a way that they would "remember it to the end of their days"? – Featured 2 June 2021
... that the regular nature walks taken by historian and naturalist William Grainge averaged {{convert|24|mi|km}}? – Featured 21 May 2021
... that Alan Little led York City to victory in the 1993 Football League Third Division play-off Final two days before his brother's side played in the First Division play-off Final? – Featured 14 May 2021
... that the former Adelaide Level lead mine (pictured) at Arn Gill in Swaledale, England, was named after Lady Adelaide Lamont, a descendant of Judge Jeffreys? – Featured 7 May 2021
... that the year after going into administration, Huddersfield Town gained promotion to the Second Division by winning the 2004 Football League Third Division play-off Final? – Featured 27 April 2021
... that Humphrey Jennings's 1939 film Spare Time showed an American audience how the British working classes spent their free time? – Featured 15 April 2021
... that Neil Warnock left Huddersfield Town shortly after they gained promotion by winning the 1995 Football League Second Division play-off Final because he said the club chairman had told him a "porky pie"? – Featured 21 March 2021
... that the first episode of the British television drama series Ackley Bridge was re-edited following the Manchester Arena bombing, as scenes showed a student at the centre of a bombing hoax? – Featured 18 March 2021
... that Swansea City made two appearances at the Millennium Stadium in 2006, winning the Football League Trophy but losing the Football League One play-off Final? – Featured 14 March 2021
... that the English classicist Neil Hopkinson hosted events at which only dessert was served? – Featured 9 March 2021
... that the 2010 Football League Two play-off Final at Wembley Stadium was won by a pub team from Essex? – Featured 25 February 2021
... that Roy Brown, credited with downing the Red Baron, suffered a serious accident not long after being posted to Marske Aerodrome? – Featured 25 February 2021
... that veterinarian Matt Brash treated some of the owls that appeared in the first Harry Potter film and concluded that they had leukocytozoonosis? – Featured 23 February 2021
... that Bradford City scored three goals in 13 minutes to secure promotion in the 2013 Football League Two play-off Final? – Featured 21 February 2021
... that some of the Sheffield Wednesday team participated in a conga on the M4 motorway after winning the 2005 Football League One play-off Final? – Featured 19 February 2021
... that the English clergyman Frank Thewlis was related to Prime Minister Harold Wilson and wore a red handkerchief in his jacket pocket when preaching to show his support for Wilson's Labour Party? – Featured 19 February 2021
... that after his side won the 2008 Football League One play-off Final, Doncaster Rovers manager Sean O'Driscoll said he could "murder a cup of tea"? – Featured 9 February 2021
... that stocks of mustard gas, thought to have been destroyed in the 1940s, were discovered at RAF Bowes Moor in 1997? – Featured 6 February 2021
... that due to Brian Crabtree{{`s}} closeness with his brothers in professional wrestling, Kendo Nagasaki once refused to wrestle "Big Daddy" Shirley Crabtree with Brian refereeing? – Featured 24 January 2021
... that figurative artist Hilda Annetta Walker (work pictured) objected to Modernist works because she found it difficult to tell what they represented? – Featured 22 January 2021
... that Hector Munro Chadwick postulated the Heroic Age as a distinct stage in the development of human societies? – Featured 11 January 2021
... All entries

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.

.

{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}

These links provide further information about the status of articles: {{WP1|Yorkshire}}

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

Improving articles

A clean-up listing is available [https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/bycat/Yorkshire.html here] which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention.

Articles assessed (in the chart in the previous section) as B, C, Start, or Stub class also need to be improved, usually by expansion and fact-checking.

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. Also available is the article alerts log which gives details of workflow activities for articles covered by the project.

Articles of note

=[[File:Featured article star.svg|20px|FA|link=]] 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 78 Yorkshire featured articles.

=[[File:Cscr-candidate.png|22px|FAC|link=]] Featured article candidates=

The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:

2003 World Snooker Championship on review here
2024 World Snooker Championship on review here

=[[File:Cscr-star_piece.png|22px|FAR|link=]] Featured article review=

None at this time.

={{icon|FT}} Featured topics=

These groups are featured topics and can serve as an idea of what should go in a featured topics.

={{icon|FTC}} Featured topic candidates=

The following topics are in review as Featured topic candidates:

None at this time.

={{icon|PR}} Peer review=

The following articles are on review at Peer review:

One Direction in review here

=[[File:Symbol support vote.svg|20px|GA|link=]] Good articles (GA)=

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

2021 UK Championship • Walter de Gray • Robert of Bridlington • 1977 World Snooker Championship • 2011 World Snooker Championship • Rockstar Leeds • 2019 UK Seniors Championship • 1974 World Snooker Championship • Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems • 2022 EFL Championship play-off final • Leeds 13 • Carol Thomas • 1979 World Snooker Championship • 1978 World Snooker Championship • 2023 World Seniors Championship • 2023 Tour Championship • HMS Tourmaline (1875) • Joe Johnson (snooker player)Live at Leeds • 2005 UK Championship • Andy Crosby • Tasha Ghouri • Everything You've Come to Expect • Eve of the Daleks • 2024 World Snooker Championship • 2006 World Snooker Championship • Legend of the Sea Devils • Draughton, North Yorkshire • Laurence Sterne • Jackie Stamps

;Under review

Beth Mead

Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt

Louis Tomlinson

;GAR reassessment

Ed Miliband reassessment here

Lists of note

=[[Image:Featured article star.svg|20px|FL|link=]] Featured lists=

These 17 articles on Yorkshire-related subjects have featured list status, not necessarily achieved through the work of this WikiProject.

=[[Image:Cscr-candidate.png|22px|FLC|link=]] Featured list candidates (FLC)=

The following lists are in review as Featured list candidates:

None at this time.

Formerly recognised content

;Image:Cscr-featured-strike.png Former featured articles

;Image:Symbol unsupport vote.svg Delisted Good Articles

Robin Hood

Articles nominated for deletion

=AFD's=

The Mood nominated here
Montrose Works F.C. nominated here

=PROD's=

None at this time.

Categories for discussion

None at this time.

Templates

=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.

=Other templates=

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

{{tl|WikiProject Yorkshire}} looks like this:

{{tl|Yorkshire Rose}} is the, barnstar like, award of WikiProject Yorkshire. The white rose emblem of the county of York is awarded to anyone who makes valued contributions to Yorkshire articles on Wikipedia.

The Yorkshire Rose award looks like this:

An optional message and signature are added as a parameter.

{{tl|Thanks WPYorks}} is a project thanks template that can be placed on user talk pages to advertise the project and thank them for their edits to project related articles. Place {{subst:Thanks WPYorks|~~~~}} on the appropriate user talk page. If you want to indicate a specific article then add the article= parameter to specify the article name like {{subst:Thanks WPYorks|article=Yorkshire|~~~~}}, this looks like:

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

It looks like this:

align="right"

Resources

[http://www.sytimescapes.org.uk/ The South Yorkshire Historic Environment Characterisation Project] by the South Yorkshire Archaeology Service.

[http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap] OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world.

[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/ Neighbourhood Statistics] Demographic information for settlements. City, town, village, civil parish, ward, etc.

[http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/Show?page=Home Histpop — The Online Historical Population Reports Project] A collection of British Historical Population Reports

[http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php Geograph.] Photographs of places to upload. The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland. The licensing on Geograph allows these photos to be uploaded to Commons - uses {{geograph|nnnnn|forename surname}} in the "Permission" field when uploading image file, where nnnn is the geograph number of the image.

[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ GENUKI Yorkshire] Historical and genealogical information. You can use the template {{tl|Genuki}} to provide an External Link to the relevant Genuki page.
[http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ York University Archaeology Data Service] Database of archaeological sites. Searchable in various ways.
[http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=yorkshire&ss=0&ct=0&mt=all&w=commons&adv=1 Flickr Commons images] Hundreds of free-to-use images from Flickr Commons. This search for 'Yorkshire' is very fruitful but more specific searches are also likely to generate excellent results.
York Museums Trust GLAMwiki partnership One of Yorkshire's largest museum organisations has a relationship with the Wikipedia community mediated by Wikimedia UK. A residency ran from October 2013 - April 2014 but the trust are happy to make further contact with editors.
Yorkshire Network Project Yorkshire's 150 registered museums are being given the chance to engage with Wikipedia. There are fantastic opportunities for Wikipedians to work with experts and unique collections on a huge range of subjects. Use the project talk page or contact PatHadley to find out more.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire

Aims

Members

[[Portal:Yorkshire]]

Creating articles

=Guidelines=

=New articles=

= Did you know (DYK?) =

Assessment and review of articles

Improving articles

Monitoring articles

Popular articles

Articles of note

=[[File:Featured article star.svg|20px|FA|link=]] Featured articles=

=[[File:Cscr-candidate.png|22px|FAC|link=]] Featured article candidates=

=[[File:Cscr-star_piece.png|22px|FAR|link=]] Featured article review=

={{icon|FT}} Featured topics=

={{icon|FTC}} Featured topic candidates=

={{icon|PR}} Peer review=

=[[File:Symbol support vote.svg|20px|GA|link=]] Good articles (GA)=

Lists of note

=[[Image:Featured article star.svg|20px|FL|link=]] Featured lists=

=[[Image:Cscr-candidate.png|22px|FLC|link=]] Featured list candidates (FLC)=

Formerly recognised content

Articles nominated for deletion

=AFD's=

=PROD's=

Categories for discussion

Templates

=Stubs=

=Other templates=

Categories

Resources

=Related projects=

Tools