Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Capital of Yorkshire and the Humber


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. BJ Talk 00:44, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Capital of Yorkshire and the Humber

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There is no official capital of Yorkshire and the Humber, the content of this article is original research and completely unsourced. Nev1 (talk) 20:41, 5 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions.   Nev1 (talk) 20:53, 5 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete - per nom. Article is WP:OR and reads like a school essay. Peanut4 (talk) 20:49, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Entirely original research. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  20:57, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Regions in the UK do not have capitals, as the article admits. Therefore, by it own admission, the article is pointless and OR of the worst kind. Emeraude (talk) 21:06, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete As previous comments have suggested, a ridiculous title for an article. GRB1972 (talk) 21:16, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I'd have been tempted to speedy delete this as blatent nonsence. --Jza84 | Talk  21:18, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Had the deletion for discussion for Capital of the North been closed (it looks like it's heading for delete) I would probably have speedily deleted this article. Nev1 (talk) 21:40, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NOTCRYSTAL - it is speculating what would happen if someone decides to have a capital of Yorkshire, Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. ++ MortimerCat (talk) 21:28, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Detele per nom. ┌ Joshii ┐└ chat ┘ 21:32, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete – No original research in Wikipedia please, such as this per WP:NOR. – RyanCross  ( talk ) 21:34, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete – POV and unreferenced. Keith D (talk) 22:12, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - Both as POV and OR. &mdash; neuro(talk) 22:38, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as WP:OR. Mr Stephen (talk) 23:00, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. This article amounts to pure speculation on the part of the author. The first sentence of the article (There is no official capital of the Yorkshire and the Humber region of Great Britain) pretty much sums up the reason why there should not be an article on this topic. --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 00:09, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * That sentence is verifiable. Here's one source for almost those very words:  . One can also source the assertion that York is the capital of Yorkshire to sources such as, whose entry contains those very words in the first line.  One can further source historical discussion of the capital of Yorkshire to sources such as , which note that whilst being the military capital of Yorkshire in Roman times, and a municipium, Eboracum was not the Roman cantonal centre of the Brigantes. And although  admits outright, on xyr user page, to being here at Wikipedia in order to push a viewpoint, one can independently source that viewpoint, that Leeds is the industrial capital of Yorkshire, to the Grolier Encyclopedia of 1998 and the entry for Leeds in the Encyclop&aelig;dia Britannica of 1993. Yes, this article is rubbish, but there is sourced material to be had on the subject of what the capital of Yorkshire is, which other encyclopaedias appear happy to address.  Uncle G (talk) 12:19, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge with Yorkshire, summarising it considerably. This is certainly not a subject worth an article of its own.  After merging delete and salt.  Peterkingiron (talk) 12:27, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * A better merge target would be Yorkshire and the Humber - but do not think that there is anything worth merging Keith D (talk) 15:11, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - non-topic PamD (talk) 22:18, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - nothing to merge. No use for an article at this title.  Uncle G's info could possibly go into the article on Yorkshire, but not Yorkshire and the Humber. Warofdreams talk 01:51, 8 October 2008 (UTC)


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