Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire

Aims
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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

Portal:Yorkshire
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Portal:Yorkshire

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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. 
 * Blackwell Bridge
 * Holgate Bridge
 * Teesside Beam Mill
 * Croft Viaduct
 * Croft Bridge
 * Whitby Weighing Machine House
 * Beggar's Bridge
 * List of crossings of the River Esk, North Yorkshire
 * Church of St Hilda, Ellerburn
 * Heaton Lodge Junction
 * Royston to Thornhill line
 * Huddersfield Viaduct
 * Kirkburton branch
 * Church of St Nicholas, Bawtry
 * Church of the Ascension, Whixley
 * The Ship (pub)
 * Apperley Viaducts
 * Gaddings Dam
 * Lumbutts
 * Kilgram Bridge
 * Church of St Mary Magdalene, Whitgift
 * Valley Gardens, Harrogate from redirect
 * Shipley TCC
 * Wensley Quarry
 * Coatham Marsh
 * Coastal erosion in Yorkshire
 * Sleddale
 * Cowside
 * Old Church of St Andrew, Upleatham
 * Skirethorns
 * Hunt Cliff
 * Saltburn Viaduct
 * Boulby line
 * Robin Hood's Bay Lifeboat Station
 * Slapewath
 * York Minster fire
 * Langdale Forest
 * Tanton, North Yorkshire
 * North Doncaster Chord
 * Wheatley Viaduct
 * RAF Patrington (from redirect)
 * Strensall Common
 * Malton engine shed
 * Ilkley Lido
 * Lambwath Stream
 * Redcar Primary Care Hospital
 * RAF Norton
 * Colden Parva
 * Lunds, North Yorkshire
 * Skelton Beck
 * Wentbridge Viaduct
 * Church of All Saints, Ledsham
 * Eldroth
 * Thornton Bridge
 * Northallerton Castle
 * Saxton with Scarthingwell
 * Myton Swing Bridge
 * Maltkiln
 * Port of Goole
 * Port of Whitby
 * Bawtry Wharf
 * Scarborough engine sheds
 * Snaizeholme
 * Rise Hill Tunnel
 * Winestead Drain
 * Skeeby Beck
 * Throxenby
 * Colsterdale Light Railway
 * Moorcock Inn
 * Grisedale
 * Pennine Journey
 * Falsgrave
 * Ramsdale Beck
 * Beckett Street Cemetery
 * Ribblehead Quarry
 * Clayton West branch line
 * Thongs Bridge railway station from redirect
 * Lockwood Viaduct
 * Denby Dale Viaduct
 * West Yorkshire mass transit system
 * North Northallerton bridge
 * 2021 North-East England shellfish die-off
 * Rockingham Kiln November 2022
 * List of people from Northallerton
 * Harrogate Gasworks Railway
 * Argam
 * Henderskelfe
 * Marishes
 * Hood Hill
 * Bradford Clean Air Zone
 * Flying Colours Flagmakers
 * Vale of York services
 * River Cheswold
 * Wether Fell
 * Marton cum Grafton
 * Raw, North Yorkshire
 * Whitby Strand
 * Thirsk Castle
 * Cauldron Falls
 * Priest's Tarn
 * Hutton Village
 * Oak Beck
 * Mickley, (from redirect)
 * Kilton Viaduct
 * Ea Beck
 * Conisbrough Viaduct
 * Snape Castle
 * Hewenden Reservoir
 * Worth Valley (dale)
 * Boothferry Bridge
 * River Ouse swing bridge
 * Selby toll bridge
 * Lillings Ambo
 * Slade Hooton
 * Sieges of Bradford
 * Whitefriargate
 * Woodkirk railway station
 * Bowling Tunnel (from redirect)
 * Milford Sidings
 * Stainforth Bridge
 * Stainforth Force
 * RAF Dishforth (from redirect)
 * Micklethwaite, West Yorkshire
 * Newlay
 * Stackhouse, England
 * Wigtwizzle
 * Gascoigne Wood Junction railway station
 * Nesfield
 * Horton Quarry
 * List of Leeds Civic Trust plaques
 * Eskdale Anticline
 * Aislaby Quarry
 * Piers of Whitby
 * Kex Gill Bypass
 * Ulshaw Bridge
 * List of lakes and tarns in North Yorkshire
 * Goathland Plough Stots
 * Beckhole Incline
 * Richmond Hill Tunnel
 * Lilla Cross
 * Whitby 199 steps
 * St Ninian's Church, Whitby
 * RAF Helperby
 * Aiskew and Leeming Bar
 * Yorkshire County Cricket Club racism scandal
 * Carbon storage in the North Sea
 * Meltham railway station (England)
 * Church of St Lambert, Burneston
 * Wykeham Forest
 * Dent Head Viaduct
 * Scoska Wood
 * RAF Bellasize
 * Church of St Helen, Denton
 * RAF Hospital Northallerton
 * Dandry Mire Viaduct
 * Prospect Hill Junction
 * Church of All Saints, Great Ayton
 * Monk Fryston railway station
 * Dent Marble
 * Arten Gill Viaduct
 * Whitetail Clean Energy
 * Long Kin East Cave - Rift Pot System
 * Dry Rigg Quarry
 * York Central (development)
 * Holgate Beck
 * St Germain's Churchyard
 * West Rounton Gates railway station (from redirect)
 * Hambleton railway station
 * Lofthouse-in-Nidderdale railway station
 * Wath-in-Nidderdale railway station
 * Pateley Bridge railway station (Nidd Valley Light Railway)
 * Withernsea Pier (from redirect)
 * Staithes Viaduct
 * Beverley Aerodrome
 * RNAS Hornsea Mere (from redirect)
 * Bradford Exchange railway station (from redirect)
 * Crummackdale
 * Philip Allott
 * Scawton
 * Low Mill
 * Fountains Fell Tarn
 * Bent Rigg radar station
 * RAF Hunmanby Moor (from redirect)
 * Bramham Moor Aerodrome
 * River Hull tidal surge barrier
 * Bingley Urban District Council
 * Church of All Saints, Skipsea
 * Skipsea meres
 * Lagoon Hull
 * Jingling Pot
 * Redcar Aerodrome
 * Ironstone mining in Rosedale
 * Roseberry Mine
 * Warren Moor Mine
 * Ironstone mining in Cleveland and North Yorkshire
 * Whitby engine shed
 * John de Gisburn
 * RAF Cowden (from redirect)
 * Marske Aerodrome
 * RAF Bowes Moor
 * Upper Barden Reservoir
 * Lion Inn
 * Fleet Moss
 * Dringhouses Yard
 * Thomas Graa
 * Church of St Mary the Virgin, Muker
 * Humber Gas Tunnel
 * Church of St Oswald, Filey
 * Stourton Freightliner Terminal
 * DalesRail
 * Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Thornaby-on-Tees
 * Church of St Alkelda, Giggleswick
 * Skelton Lake services
 * Wyke Beck
 * Ponden Reservoir
 * Binsoe
 * Chapel of St Mary Magdalen, Ripon
 * Grinkle Mine
 * Prince of Wales Colliery
 * Upton Colliery
 * Upton and North Elmsall railway station
 * Church of St Mary the Virgin, Richmond
 * Allerton waste recovery park
 * Skipwith Common
 * Kettleness
 * Hedon Haven
 * Low Moor engine shed
 * North Skelton Mine
 * Watersheddles Reservoir (in Lancashire (!), but is owned by Yorkshire Water)
 * Marine conservation zones in Yorkshire
 * 2019 Yorkshire Dales flooding
 * Trenholme Bar railway station
 * Sexhow railway station
 * Stokesley railway station
 * Ingleby railway station
 * All Creatures Great and Small (2020 TV series)
 * Yorkshire coast fishery
 * Church of St Andrew, Grinton
 * Church of St Edmund King and Martyr, Kellington
 * Monckton Coke Works
 * Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team
 * SeaGrown
 * Kilton Castle
 * Parkol Marine Engineering
 * Ship and boat building in Whitby
 * York Handmade Brick Company
 * A1033 road (from redirect)
 * Grinton Smelt Mill
 * Arctic Viking
 * Picton railway station (England)
 * Knaresborough Viaduct
 * RAF Shipton
 * York and Doncaster branch
 * Scarborough (TV series)
 * Scarborough (2018 film)
 * Bell Busk
 * Kirkthorpe Hydro
 * Winscar Reservoir
 * Hainworth
 * River Tutt
 * Richmond to Lancaster Turnpike
 * Linton Falls Hydro
 * Thwaites railway station
 * Healey Mills Marshalling Yard
 * Church of St Mary the Virgin, Hornby
 * Woodsmith Mine Tunnel
 * Boosbeck railway station
 * Lendal Tower
 * Barden Tower
 * Lady Anne's Way
 * Masons Gin
 * RAF Bridlington
 * Staithes and Runswick Lifeboat Station
 * Filey Lifeboat Station
 * Whitby Lifeboat Station
 * Flamborough Lifeboat Station
 * Scarborough Lifeboat Station
 * Redcar Lifeboat Station
 * Humber Lifeboat Station
 * Teesmouth Lifeboat Station
 * Bridlington Lifeboat Station
 * Bradford Dale
 * 2019 Tour de Yorkshire
 * Harlow Hill Cemetery
 * Church of All Saints, Harlow Hill
 * Alfred Hill Thompson
 * Isaac Thomas Shutt
 * Mawer and Ingle
 * Benjamin Burstall
 * Benjamin Payler
 * Matthew Taylor (sculptor)
 * Charles Mawer
 * Catherine Mawer
 * Robert Mawer
 * Yorkshire Gliding Club
 * York Rail Operating Centre
 * Catterick Bridge Explosion
 * Manningham engine shed
 * Swinsto Cave
 * Tanfield railway station
 * Bradford power station
 * Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team
 * St Mary's Church, Welwick
 * Church of St Peter, Croft-on-Tees
 * Spen Valley Line
 * South Pennines Regional Park
 * Knabs Ridge Wind Farm
 * Tophill Low
 * Bradford Literature Festival
 * Headingley Castle (in place of redirect)
 * Hull and East Riding Museum
 * Low Moor Explosion
 * Church of St Gregory, Bedale
 * Aysgarth School
 * Church of St Anne, Catterick
 * Ovenden Moor Wind Farm
 * Roger Basy
 * Nicholas de Selby
 * Leylands, Leeds
 * Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway
 * Harden Moor
 * Pickering Beck
 * Sea Cut (Scalby Beck)
 * Penistone Hill Country Park
 * Lower Laithe Reservoir
 * Gilling and Pickering Line
 * Thirsk and Malton Line
 * RAF Sutton on Hull
 * RAF Manywells Height
 * Bradford Beck
 * Hackenthorpe
 * Esholt Sewage Works Railway
 * Hudson Way
 * Chalkland Way
 * George Gale (MP)
 * Victoria Dock Branch Line
 * Lees Moor Tunnel
 * Spurn Point Military Railway
 * Shipley and Windhill Line
 * Holy Trinity Church, Bingley
 * Wilberforce Way
 * John Nicholson (poet)
 * Fellsman
 * Harden Beck
 * Nidd Aqueduct
 * River Laver
 * River Skell
 * Nidderdale AONB
 * Yordas Cave
 * Weathercote Cave
 * Skirwith Cave
 * Dibbles Bridge coach crash (1925)
 * Wakefield City Police
 * Jib Tunnel
 * Rat Hole, Gaping Gill
 * Stream Passage Pot
 * Flood Entrance Pot
 * Disappointment Pot
 * Bar Pot
 * A166 road
 * West Riding County Cup
 * Huttons Ambo
 * Upper Helmsley
 * Cadeby Main Pit Disaster
 * Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association‎
 * Settle College
 * Healaugh, Tadcaster
 * White Wells
 * York City F.C. league record by opponent
 * Wath Athletic F.C.
 * Nicholas Postgate
 * Norman Harding
 * Brotherton Library
 * Driffield Times
 * Barley Hall
 * List of Rivers of Yorkshire
 * Edwin Airey
 * Template:Rivers_of_Yorkshire
 * Minster Way
 * Thomas Danby (mayor)
 * Holy Trinity Church, Leeds
 * William Etty (architect)
 * Lord Mayor of Leeds
 * Teesville
 * Eston Nab
 * Great Broughton, North Yorkshire
 * Bradford City Hall
 * Halifax Town Hall
 * Bradford Industrial Museum
 * Bankfield Museum
 * Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Museum
 * Gristhorpe Man
 * Manor House Museum
 * Cliffe Castle Museum
 * Ilkley Toy Museum
 * Craven Herald & Pioneer
 * Leeds Times
 * Orchard Park Estate
 * Wyke College
 * Marilyn Stowe
 * Steven Croft (bishop)
 * Selina Scott
 * William Craven (Lord Mayor of London)
 * William Marshall (1796-1872)
 * James Garth Marshall
 * John Marshall (1797-1836)
 * Ainsty Bounds Walk
 * Abbeys Amble
 * Fountains Fell
 * Simon Fell (Yorkshire Dales)
 * Buslingthorpe, Leeds
 * Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
 * Scarborough Hospital

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.
 * 1... 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 secluded hills provided refuge from Scottish raiders and English Civil War troops? – Featured 20 April 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 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 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 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 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 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 24 mi? – 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 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
 * ... that Katie Levick gave up the chance to play cricket for England in order to pursue a full-time job? – Featured 14 December 2020
 * ... that medieval ceramics expert Jean Le Patourel was also an expert in the archaeology of dog collars? – Featured 11 December 2020
 * ... that after awarding a controversial goal in the 1902 FA Cup Final, referee Tom Kirkham took refuge in a broom cupboard to evade angry goalkeeper William "Fatty" Foulke (pictured)? – Featured 18 November 2020
 * ... that it is impossible to draw water from Robin Hood's Well? – Featured 9 November 2020
 * ... that in a speech after the 1901 FA Cup Final, General Sir Redvers Buller compared football to the Army by saying that the winning side is usually the one best practised at shooting? – Featured 8 November 2020
 * ... that following the Treaty of Ripon, signed on this day in 1640, a Scottish army had their expenses paid by England, while occupying northern England? – Featured 28 October 2020
 * ... that the first large bathhouse in York was built at the bottom of Marygate (pictured) in 1836? – Featured 24 October 2020
 * ... that the former site of the Majestic Cinema, Leeds, which was gutted by fire in 2014, will become the national headquarters of Channel 4? – Featured 8 October 2020
 * ... that the only statue of a public figure in Scarborough is a memorial to Queen Victoria outside its town hall (pictured)? – Featured 17 September 2020
 * ... that in 1833, English magistrate John Peele Clapham edited a children's hymn book which had numerous editions and a wide circulation? – Featured 11 September 2020
 * ... that finishers of the Sheffield Star Walk were rewarded with a hot mug of Oxo? – Featured 10 September 2020
 * ... that all three of the pleasure gardens run by the entrepreneur Thomas Clapham in Leeds and London failed due to debt and were sold for housing? – Featured 7 September 2020
 * ... that Mark Williams won the most successive at the 2003 World Snooker Championship, despite losing the first two? – Featured 3 September 2020
 * .. that two Northumbrian kings, Ælla and Osberht, were killed by Vikings in 867 at the Battle of York? – Featured 29 August 2020
 * ... that because of its isolated, moorside location, Wells House, Ilkley, is the only building by Cuthbert Brodrick known to have been surrounded by a designed landscape? – Featured 15 August 2020
 * ... that West Park United Reformed Church of Harrogate, England, has twelve heads of historical characters, including John Bunyan (pictured), carved on its wall? – Featured 12 August 2020
 * ... that at the 2005 World Snooker Championship, a player turned up without his and with a hangover? – Featured 16 July 2020
 * ... that Asa Binns was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, but died before he could take office? – Featured 2 July 2020
 * ... that the 1925 FA Cup Final was the first in the competition's history to feature a Welsh team? – Featured 16 June 2020
 * ... that Chelsea F.C.'s loss in the 1988 Football League Second Division play-off Final triggered football hooliganism that injured 45 people? – Featured 16 June 2020
 * ... that in qualifying for the 1987 World Snooker Championship, Jimmy van Rensberg had a suspected heart attack, but returned to win his match? – Featured 14 June 2020
 * ... that Systime Computers, based in Leeds, was once Britain's second largest computer manufacturer? – Featured 14 June 2020
 * ... that prior to the event, bookmakers' odds against Joe Johnson winning the 1986 World Snooker Championship were 150 to 1? – Featured 29 May 2020
 * ... that after his side defeated Leeds United in the FA Cup, Cardiff City chairman Sam Hammam had two BBC reporters forcibly removed and had an altercation with the opposing manager? – Featured 25 May 2020
 * ... that with her victory at the 2001 Women's World Snooker Championship, Lisa Quick became the first person to win world titles in both pool and snooker? – Featured 12 May 2020
 * ... that racing driver Justin Wilson entered the 2003 Formula One World Championship through an investment programme listed on the London Stock Exchange? – Featured 3 May 2020
 * ... that Colonel Tom Moore, who turns 100 today, has raised more than £31 million for NHS Charities Together by walking laps of his garden? – Featured 30 April 2020
 * ... that England international footballer Colin Grainger was also a professional singer and shared a bill with the Beatles? – Featured 29 April 2020
 * ... that although the Brimham Rocks (example pictured) were shaped naturally by erosion, Hayman Rooke conjectured that the extraordinary shapes of some stones could have been carved in part by druids? – Featured 23 March 2020
 * ... that Ripon Parks is noted for its colonies of the parasitic common toothwort (pictured), as well as for the yellow star-of-Bethlehem? – Featured 16 March 2020
 * ... that the Leeds-based software company Visionware represented a management buyout success story from the failure of a once much larger British company? – Featured 24 February 2020
 * ... that Hack Fall Wood in North Yorkshire, England, hosts the rare lemon slug (example pictured)? – Featured 12 February 2020
 * ... that Bishop Monkton Ings in North Yorkshire, England, provides a habitat to the semi-parasitic marsh lousewort? – Featured 9 February 2020
 * ... that Mar Field Fen is "one of the best examples of fen habitat in the Vale of York"? – Featured 8 February 2020
 * ... that the Siege of Hull took place in 1642 after the governor twice refused to admit King Charles I to the town? – Featured 2 February 2020
 * ... that the locally scarce bird's eye primrose grows at Cow Myers in North Yorkshire? – Featured 30 January 2020
 * ... that Hay-a-Park Gravel Pit is "one of the most northerly inland breeding populations of reed warbler in Britain"? – Featured 25 January 2020
 * ... that the nationally rare tansy beetle (example pictured) survives at Acaster South Ings, a Site of Special Scientific Interest near York, England? – Featured 23 January 2020
 * ... that Farnham Mires is one of the few sedge-and-rush marshes left in the Vale of York? – Featured 22 January 2020
 * ... that Dehenna Davison is Bishop Auckland's first Conservative member of Parliament since the constituency's creation in 1885? – Featured 18 January 2020
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George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (archbishop of York) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • HMS Endeavour • Cosmo Gordon Lang • Thomas of Bayeux • Cottingley Fairies • Wilfred Rhodes • Guy Fawkes • Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927 • Roy Kilner • George Macaulay • Frederick Delius • Battle of Towton • Halifax Gibbet • Gerard (archbishop of York) • George Hirst • Geoffrey (archbishop of York) • Len Hutton • Hedley Verity • Abe Waddington • Æthelwold ætheling • Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball • The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished • The Wrestlers (Etty) • Bootham Crescent • History of York City F.C. (1922–1980) • William Etty • History of York City F.C. (1980–present) • William Sterndale Bennett • Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed • The World Before the Flood • Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' • North Eastern Railway War Memorial • York City War Memorial • Northern England • Albert Pierrepoint • RSPB Dearne Valley Old Moor • Keldholme Priory election dispute • 2018 World Snooker Championship • 2019 World Snooker Championship • Capture of Wakefield • 2017 World Snooker Championship • 2017 EFL Championship play-off Final • 1985 World Snooker Championship • Cardiff City F.C. 2–1 Leeds United F.C. (2002) • 1986 World Snooker Championship • 1988 Football League Second Division play-off Final • 2020 World Snooker Championship • 1984 World Snooker Championship • 1925 FA Cup Final • 2006 Football League Championship play-off Final • Acamptonectes • 1997 Football League First Division play-off Final • 1987 World Snooker Championship • 1989 World Snooker Championship • 2014 World Snooker Championship • 1983 World Snooker Championship • 1988 World Snooker Championship • 2015 World Snooker Championship • 2002 World Snooker Championship • 2021 World Snooker Championship • 1982 World Snooker Championship • 2016 World Snooker Championship • 2022 World Snooker Championship • 1981 World Snooker Championship • 1980 World Snooker Championship • Ian Carmichael • 2023 World Snooker Championship

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 * 2003 World Snooker Championship on review here
 * 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning on review here

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

Featured topic candidates
The following topics are in review as Featured topic candidates:

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Peer review
The following articles are on review at Peer review:


 * Portal:Yorkshire in review here

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

Arctic Monkeys • Sean Bean • Clayton Donaldson • W. H. Auden • MKM Stadium • Leeds Country Way • Ritchie Humphreys • York Museum Gardens • Edwin of Northumbria • Battle of Marston Moor • Thurstan • Stuart McCall • Michael Symes • William of York • Roger de Pont L'Evêque • Kyle Nix • Gerard (archbishop of York) • Oswald of Worcester • Sam Cowan • 2007–08 Bradford City A.F.C. season • Battle of Boroughbridge • Jimmy Speirs • Chris Brandon • A Month in the Country (film) • Matt Jarvis • Northallerton • Curtis Woodhouse • Hebden, North Yorkshire • Geoff Horsfield • Dracula's Daughter • Adam Smith (footballer, born February 1985) • Fulfordgate • James the Deacon • Architecture of Leeds • David McGurk • Philip Larkin • Siward Barn • John Thomas North • Oslac of York • Thored • Kingston upon Hull • Thomas Ferens • Peak District • Ælfhelm of York • Michael Rankine • 2008–09 York City F.C. season • York • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film) • Craig Nelthorpe • Geoffrey Boycott • Drax Power Station • David Wetherall • County Borough of Leeds • Bramhope Tunnel • Martyn Woolford • Tickle Cock Bridge • Ian Helliwell (footballer) • Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet • Greg Young (footballer) • Sheffield • Rudyard Kipling (ship) • Norman Yardley • 1996 Football League Second Division play-off Final • Abe Waddington • Joe Colbeck • John and Christopher Wright • York Castle • 1903–04 Bradford City A.F.C. season • Aire and Calder Navigation • River Hull • George Hirst • River Don Navigation • 2010–11 York City F.C. season • Ed Miliband • Micky Adams • Whitby • Stones Brewery • Peter Swan (footballer, born 1966) • Fraizer Campbell • Russell Howarth • 1936 FA Cup Final • Webster's Brewery • John Smith's Brewery • Church of Saint Oswald, King and Martyr, Oswaldkirk • Cynesige • Thomas Harrison (architect) • Michael Coulson (footballer) • Thorne and Hatfield Moors • Keith Houchen • HMS Vigilant (1777) • Middleton, Leeds • 2011–12 York City F.C. season • Gisborough Priory • 1889–90 Sheffield United F.C. season • One Direction • The Box Tree • HMT Richard Bacon • Bosa of York • Terry Bywater • LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman • Stones Bitter • 2011–12 Sheffield United F.C. season • John Dundas (RAF officer) • Stainforth and Keadby Canal • Blackburn Meadows • Street House Anglo-Saxon cemetery • Cleveland Railway (England) • Fairy Queen (locomotive) • 1891–92 Sheffield United F.C. season • Axholme Joint Railway • John Hemmingham  • Gordon Banks • Paul Robinson (footballer born 1979) • 2012–13 York City F.C. season • Richard Cresswell • Bolckow Vaughan • Ecgbert (bishop) • Æthelbert of York • Belgian ship A4 • Wade's Causeway • Japanese ironclad Kongō • Jack Charlton • 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence • 2013–14 York City F.C. season • Conisbrough Castle • Skipsea Castle • 2014–15 York City F.C. season • Don Revie • 2015 Tour de Yorkshire • Joseph Terry • Bruce Chatwin • 1965 FA Cup Final • York Community Stadium • Wressle Castle • 2004 Football League Cup Final • New Model Army (band) • Hull Castle • Marmion Tower • 2015–16 York City F.C. season • 2016 Women's Tour de Yorkshire • HMS Falmouth (1910) • Herbert Chapman • 1974 FA Charity Shield • Worms Armageddon • Brudenell Social Club • Hyde Park Picture House • Tansy beetle • 2014 Tour de France • Ughill Hall shootings • William Tuke • Jack Hobbs (footballer) • 2018 UK Championship • 2017 UK Championship • Cottage Road Cinema • 2019 World Snooker Championship • Capture of Wakefield • The Golden Beam • Siege of Hull (1642) • Battle of Leeds • 2000 Football League First Division play-off Final • Billy Elliot • Justin Wilson (racing driver) • Colin Grainger • Davara • 2016 Football League Championship play-off Final • Cardiff City F.C. 2–1 Leeds United F.C. • 2015 Football League Championship play-off Final • 2009 Football League Championship play-off Final • 2008 Football League Championship play-off Final • 2016 Football League One play-off Final • 2018 EFL League One play-off Final • 2014 Football League One play-off Final • 2017 EFL League One play-off Final • 2013 World Snooker Championship • 2003 World Snooker Championship • Worms 2 • 2019 UK Championship • 2005 World Snooker Championship • 2003 Football League First Division play-off Final • 1981 World Snooker Championship • 1902 FA Cup Final • Hector Munro Chadwick • 1901 FA Cup Final • 2008 Football League One play-off Final • 1995 Football League Second Division play-off Final • 2006 Football League One play-off FinalAckley Bridge • 2013 Football League Two play-off Final • 2005 Football League One play-off Final • 2012 Football League One play-off Final • 1987 Football League Second Division play-off Final • Systime Computers • 2010 Football League Two play-off Final • 2011 Football League One play-off Final • 2004 Football League Third Division play-off Final • 1993 Football League Third Division play-off Final • Terri Harper • Jim Laker • Dracula • 2006 UK Championship • 2014 FA Cup Final • James Milner • 2008 World Snooker Championship • 2012 World Snooker Championship • Hamo (dean of York) • 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 • Everything You've Come to Expect


 * Under review


 * 2023 UK Championship
 * 2024 World Snooker Championship
 * Humberside Police
 * 2006 World Snooker Championship


 * GAR reassessment


 * Ed Miliband reassessment Talk:Ed Miliband/GA3
 * York reassessment Good article reassessment/York/1

[[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.


 * York City F.C. Clubman of the Year
 * List of York City F.C. managers
 * List of York City F.C. players
 * List of York City F.C. seasons
 * List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons
 * List of York City F.C. records and statistics
 * List of Leeds United F.C. seasons
 * List of Scarborough F.C. seasons
 * List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys
 * List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland
 * List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons
 * List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England
 * Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent
 * York City F.C. league record by opponent
 * List of York City F.C. players (25–99 appearances)
 * List of York City F.C. players (1–24 appearances)
 * Kate Rusby discography

[[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|20px|Former featured articles|link=]] Former featured articles
 * Brian Close
 * Sheffield
 * Sheffield Wednesday F.C.
 * M62 motorway
 * Caedmon


 * [[Image:Symbol unsupport vote.svg|20px|Delisted Good Articles|link=]] Delisted Good Articles
 * Robin Hood

AFD's

 * Mothin Ali nominated here

PROD's

 * Untitled Peaky Blinders film

Categories for discussion
None at this time.

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

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:

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.

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  ~  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  ~ , this looks like:

gives a sidebar which can be added to your user page for shortcuts to sections of the project pages. It looks like this:

Categories
You can assign a category to a page simply by adding to the page's wikitext source. In order to reference a category within a page as a normal wiki link (without adding the page to the category) prefix the link name with a colon. For example: Category:Not in this category


 * Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Yorkshire


 * Category:Yorkshire

Resources

 * The South Yorkshire Historic Environment Characterisation Project by the South Yorkshire Archaeology Service.


 * OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world.


 * Neighbourhood Statistics Demographic information for settlements. City, town, village, civil parish, ward, etc.


 * Histpop — The Online Historical Population Reports Project A collection of British Historical Population Reports


 * 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  in the "Permission" field when uploading image file, where nnnn is the geograph number of the image.


 * GENUKI Yorkshire Historical and genealogical information. You can use the template Genuki to provide an External Link to the relevant Genuki page.
 * York University Archaeology Data Service Database of archaeological sites. Searchable in various ways.
 * 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.

Related projects

 * WikiProject Yorkshire
 * WikiProject Bradford
 * WikiProject Sheffield

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Refill - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references.
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links.
 * Dablinks - Show links requiring DAB.
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.


 * Template Parameters tool