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Highest Point

Someone's obviously removed the reference to Mickle Fell being the highest point and, since this is an article about traditional Yorkshire, I've put it back in. It's a fact, not an opinion. Bkpip 10:19, 8 Apr 2007 (UTC)

Bigger Counties?

What are the two traditional English counties that are bigger than Yorkshire? It appears to be the biggest on the map at Traditional counties of England. -Nommo 19:38, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

You are right, my brane malfunctioned. Morwen 19:39, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Yorkshire dialect

This article is badly in need of some information regarding the Yorkshire dialect of English. I have little knowledge of it so can someone with more expertise do the work? Thank thee! :) --Hux 12:32, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Metcalfe

I've removed the following recently added text from the article:

One of Yorkshires most famous clans, the Metcalfes, are descended from the land of Wensleydale in the North West of the county. The Metcalfe Society hold records dating back to Metcalfes living in the area during the 14th century. They were one of the most prominet families in Yorkshire for over five centuries. Sir James Metcalfe (1389-1472) who was born and lived in Wensleydale was a captin in the army which fought with King Henry V in the battle of Agincourt in 1415. Metcalfe is still one of the most common surnames in Yorkshire.

This isn't really relevant to a definiton of Yorkshire. Yorkshire is indeed crucial to the history of this family, but I'm not convinced this family was crucial to the history of Yorkshire. This would be better placed in its own dedicated article, rather than here.

Question

The Omar Ebrahim bio says that this British opera singer was born in "Greasbrough, York, England." Does anyone know if this a neighborhood of York, or else a town elsewhere in Yorkshire? Badagnani 22:48, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Greasbrough is a separate town in Rotherham Metropolitan Borough. This puts it in South Yorkshire, so nothing to do with York. cBuckley (Talk • Contribs) 00:13, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

The place of birth may have taken from census records which may have shown Yorkshire as the "County of York" or just "York". As a town in the County of York it obviously has everything to do with York. Yorkshire Phoenix 13:20, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

OK, so the Internet Movie Database is wrong in saying that he's from "Greasbrough, York." They don't know their UK geography!  :) I've made a page for Greasbrough; can you see if it looks right? Badagnani 00:33, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Looks good to me. cBuckley (Talk • Contribs) 18:49, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Yorkshire's Ridings

County Council's were not introduced until 1888/89 (note when they were introduced they didn't always mirror the county boundaries) and the Ridings EXISTED prior to this. It is wrong therefore to state that just because the county councils of the West, North and East Ridings were replaced by monstrosities concocted by pen-pushers in Whitehall in 1974 that the Ridings ceased to exist.

The Ridings of Yorkshire (as geographical entities) were not created by an act of parliament (unlike County Council's and Unitary Authorities etc) and so, as such, cannot be abolished by an act of parliament. This is something successive governments have stated on many occasions over the last three decades.

It's the duty of every patriotic Yorkshireman to use the ridings instead of the administrative "counties" as government reforms of these administrative divisions have redistributed land away from Yorkshire or has deliberately attempted to damage the cohesiveness of Yorkshire, ultimately resulting in the "region" now being called "Yorkshire and the Humber". If they'd left Yorkshire intact with its three ridings and left Lincolnshire out of the picture we would have the prospect of a Yorkshire region, and with it the real prospect of devolved power, for the first time in centuries. They can take our civil government structure, but they'll never take our freedom! 194.203.110.127 12:09, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

although the Ridings still exist as histoic boundaries without which administrative boundaries could not be defined, and they are still used in many other areas.

Like what? --Camembert

yorkshire "west riding" shows that at least 18,800 peple use them, and that is only those on the internet. All the people I know from yorkshire both use and understand the ridings system, and to maintain factual accuracy in the article, I felt that this fact ought to be clarified. Before it read as if the Ridings suddenly "ceased to exist", and this is certainly not the case.

I'm from Yorkshire, and I don't use the ridings system or come across it in life very much. I only understand it because I've made the effort to do so. Maybe people who remember the ridings refer to them in conversation, but I don't think it's used for any practical purpose (apart from clubs and so on established before 1974). A look at the first few pages of the Google search reveals that the vast majority of the hits use the term in a purely historical context (quite a lot of them are genealogical sites). So really, I think the "many other areas" bit is misleading. I'm taking it out. --Camembert

I wasn't trying to mislead, but in my experience they are still used. It no doubt varies from place to place, however. I think it's a little disingenuous to disregard 18,800 hits as being mostly genealogical sites, but I won't replace the term. Incidentally, the various watsonian vice-counties of yorkshire are also directly based upon the Ridings, and WVCs are most certainly used in modern, scientific contexts. 80.255 21:53, 1 Oct 2003 (UTC)

The west and north titles may have have fallen into disuse but in the east it is still used. If I recall correctly the road signs leading into East Yorkshire all read "Welcome to the East Riding of Yorkshire" and the council is called that too: . Wiki-Ed 12:44, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Quite, there is an East Riding Council. I think this is a unitary authority formed from the northern part of Humberside, excluding Hull, when the Humberside County Council was dis-established. It looks like this is included. Andreww 09:36, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Why do we have to say "Sheffield in South Yorkshire", "Leeds in West Yorkshire" etc. in the articles. The administrative counties set up were never supposed to replace the real counties, and this has been stated many times by the British government. We should be stating which counties places are really in. It makes a mockery out of the fact Lancashire play cricket in Manchester, and the Home Counties play in London if we don't recognise the real county names. So we should just say "Sheffield in the West Riding of Yorkshire" etc...

South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire are ceremonial counties of England. These are the most commonly used terms by people living in these areas and are also the terms that are used by the UK government (for example by the ONS). Whilst the city of Leeds could be correctly said to be in the traditional county of Yorkshire, the West Riding of Yorkshire was an administrative division of the traditional county that ceased to be in 1974. It would be incorrect for wikipedia to say that Sheffield is in the traditional county of Yorkshire as large parts of this city are actually in the traditional county of Derbyshire. As the UK government uses the current administrative and ceremonial counties (for example we have "West Yorkshire Police" and "South Yorkshire Police") I think that it is better that wikipedia uses these or nothing—note that the Sheffield article just states that "Sheffield is a city in the north of England" and does not include a county name at all. However, it is entirely appropriate for articles, having given the current administrative or ceremonial county of a particluar place, to, at some point within the article also state the traditional county. But just giving a former administrative division of the traditional county (i.e. the West Riding of Yorkshire) will only lead to confusion. JeremyA (talk) 01:28, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Why do we have to say "Sheffield in South Yorkshire"

Because 'tis, we here in the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire have declared ourselves free of the feudal oppression of "ridings" Gonzo 21:40, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Highest point?

Isn't Mickle Fell on the Durham-Cumbria border? Surely the highest point in Yorkshire is Whernside.

Nope. You are thinking of administrative areas. See List of traditional counties of England and Wales by highest point and Mickle Fell. To quote the latter: "It is the highest point of both the administrative county of County Durham and the traditional county of Yorkshire." Owain (talk) 09:05, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Introduction

This could do with being more succinct. A lot could move to the history section and be summarised at a high level in the intro. MRSC 07:30, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm also concerned about the population figure being given. Whilst, yes, about five million seems reasonable: the quoted figure is for the Yorkshire and the Humber region. We could, at a pinch, delete from this the populations of North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, add the populations of the Yorkshire parishes now in Lancashire, Cumbria, Durham, etc etc : also the parts formerly in Cleveland. However this would still not be accurate and would anyway count as original research, I feel. What we need is for someone external to us to go through every census output area, assign a traditional county to it, and do lots of adding. To my knowledge nobody has done this - visionofbritain only seem to project current units back in time, not old units forward in time. Morwen - Talk 14:07, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Revision

I've tried to revise the content of the article to cut out duplication and add section headings to make the structure more "obvious".I shall be researching some of the added sections over the next few weeks and adding more content. I feel that the contentious issues of administrative reform have overtaken the subject matter. Let's have the debate by all means but Yorkshire is more than a few boundary changes. I am interested in writing a constructive and factual article about the geographical area of historic Yorkshire, past and present.--Harkey Lodger 18:42, 17 June 2007 (UTC) ==

Sounds good - see my assesment comments Talk:Yorkshire/Comments. Keith D 19:09, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Someone needs to go through and edit the entire article. The grammar is confusing and there are too many run-on sentences. 18:33, 30 Nov 2007 (UTC)

Music

Brass bands and choral societies come to mind. Any offers!!?--Harkey Lodger 18:56, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

romans

the romans foundeed the city of york, who cares about a bunch of vikings that came later? the romans are far more worthy of their own subsection than vikings. -- CalcioSalvo 09:10, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

More is known about what the Vikings did @ York, also was your a big Roman city or just a town? don't get me wrong the founders deserve a mention, but what are you going to put in that section? --Nate1481(/_c) 10:03, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

more is not known about the viking period at all, the romans not only founded the city but built the York city walls right around it, one of the city's most famous feature even to this days. Constantine the Great, who was Emperor of entire empire of rome was proclaimed in the city and there is a huge statue of him near the minster, Roman emperors Septimius Severus and Constantius Chlorus both died in yorkshire.

read the history especially the 3rd century part which explains that for a while the roman empire itself was governed from york. it was also made the Capital of Britannia Inferior.(a map to give you idea of significance)

there are even Roman festivals in the city, just like there is for vikings. the vikings are only more familiar to day tripper tourists because of the Jorvik Viking Centre. --CalcioSalvo 21:47, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

A subsection on the Romans in Yorkshire would be appropriate and perhaps an empty section would be a prompt, or encouragement, to those who know about this period of Yorkshire history to make a contribution. On the other hand it could, I suppose, look a little unprofessional. If nobody else makes a contribution about this era I will research and reinstate it when I have time.--Harkey Lodger 16:55, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Structure of the Yorkshire Article

This article seems to have lost its structure!! Please can we agree on what to include? (Bearing in mind that the article is about the historic county.)The article Misplaced Pages:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about counties seems relevant here. It cannot be regarded as a settlement, so the guidelines on the Wikiproject:Yorkshire page are not really relevant to this article. I am currently researching material for the page as it was previously structured and I would like to know how to include it.--Harkey Lodger 09:17, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Some significant sections appear have recently been duplicated in other articles (see Administrative reforms in Yorkshire, Culture of Yorkshire and Natural and geological history of Yorkshire) and I am wondering if the editor who did this is switching to summary style for some sections. Keith D 19:47, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

They may be but what is left is not a summary. Take the Culture section, for example. What has been left is a random sentence not a summary. Pending the provision of proper summaries, restoration of much of the deleted material is in order. BlueValour 00:25, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

I am attempting to restore some of the structure and edit recent contributions without destroying them as a lot of work has gone into them. I shall continue to work at this restoration in line with the guidelines on Misplaced Pages:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about counties. Some of the previously removed text was just a summary of longer articles that I was planning. eg The Geology of Yorkshire (and now could be deemed to be a stub). Yorkshire was a huge county and therefore would perhaps merit a larger article than is usual.--Harkey Lodger 21:47, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Weird map and removal of flag

The island that map shows looks nothing like Great Britain to me: can we get a proper map please? And why has someone removed Image:Flag of Yorkshire (Flag Institute).svg? 78.145.180.38 01:21, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Well Yorkshire is an English county after all, not a British one.

The English flag has never and hopefully will never, be part of the Yorkshire flag; the one you are linking was just something created by a guy on website, why should it be in here? Its not the traditional standard, its not flown anywhere and probably doesn't exist in the form of an actual flag anywhere... the only reason the flag with the blue background and the white rose isn't technically at "official" status anymore is because the county was "technically" made a historic one in 1974, however if a "Yorkshire flag" is flown in real life, its that one. NEVER the one you're speaking of. - Yorkshirian (talk) 06:32, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

I think the removal of the second flag should have been discussed. Since it has been designed by the flag institute, and since it is the official flag of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, I think it was well worth keeping, with the proper annotation of course. A little less trigger happy shooting please, and a little more discussion.Bkpip (talk) 08:21, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Infobox question

The box has a proceeded by section which I can't fathom. Should it be preceded by or succeeded by? It looks like the areas mentioned were the ones that followed.--88.111.171.39 (talk) 14:33, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Danish/Viking

I've changed 'in Yorkshire...the only truly Viking territory on mainland Britain was established', to, 'the only truly Danish territory'. To be Viking was an occupation not a reference to race. Vikings were semi-nomadic plunderers, all men, who always returned to their homeland at the end of a campaign. The people who settled in Yorkshire were families, men, women, and children, who established farming communities and towns. These were Danish people living in Britain. In no way can they be referred to as Viking.
While I'm here, I'll also have a bit of a rant about the fact that some people believe the Roman history of Yorkshire to be more important than it's Norse equivalent. The Romans were foreign invaders who came here when it suited them, took off when it suited them, and left us nothing but a lot of pots and ruins. The Danes, however, left their culture, their language and even their genes. Is the archaelogy of Yorkshire more important than its people? I think not!Bkpip 07:40, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

The thing is, for much of the time, the Kingdom was passed on to Norweigans (most of the kings were from there, even Eric Bloodaxe) so its not just Danes. Generally they seem to be refered to as Vikings and infact that is something which is glamourised in the modern age, so the name doesn't carry the negative conotations of say "the Vandals" now have; even in Museums pertaning to them the name viking is used. I think for reasons of historics and clarity, and the name "viking" being specifically stated in the sources it should remain. - Yorkshirian 07:36, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I'll leave it for the sake of clarity, but I still insist the title of Viking is historically incorrect. Regarding the Norwegians, it's true that we had as many Kings from there as from Denmark, but they never settled in Yorkshire, favouring Cumbria instead. The Norwegian Kings of Jorvik were a minority over-class, and Vikings in the true sense, dominating a settled Danish majority under-class. Recent studies into genetic haplotype frequencies found the people of the city of York to be the Danes' closest cousins, but the Norwegians are barely represented at all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.10.198.81 (talk) 09:25, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Succeeded by

The 'Succeeded by' in the infobox implies that Sedbergh Rural District, Bowland Rural District and Startforth Rural District succeeded Yorkshire. This is clearly not the case as they were abolished in 1974. Perhaps it is best left as a link to the explanation article as this has all the complex details in full? MRSC • Talk 07:59, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

No objections, I will make the change to a link. MRSC • Talk 13:40, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

I've removed this again for a number of reasons:

1. The list is not exhaustive and misses out many successor areas
2. It implies that Sedbergh Rural District etc. existed within Cumbria
3. It is anachronistic to have Yorkshire and the Humber alongside entities created in 1974 as if they originated at the same time
4. It hides complexity, explained perfectly well in the article
5. It is not the best way to explain these changes, that is why we have a long article to do that.

Please engage here before reverting again. MRSC • Talk 08:49, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Folks can we stop having an edit war in this one and as MRSC suggested talk about it on the talk page before changing the article again. Keith D (talk) 18:10, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

I've just changed the link back to what MRSC suggested. I feel that it complicates the issue if information is missed out, and the article it links to has a much more comprehensive list of what happened afterwards. That and "occupied by" does feel a tad wrong... ~~ 18:30, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

See also

This is unusually long for an article. Some elements can go in Template:Yorkshire, say forming a new line or two. Any ideas how this would best be organised? MRSC • Talk 08:03, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

gods own county

ive lived in yorksire all my life, and i have never heard this phrase once. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.29.33.200 (talk) 20:14, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I've heard it used once or twice. I guess it is probably not as frequently used now as it was in the past. ~~ 21:23, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I've heard this many a time. And agree with it too :-) Peanut4 (talk) 21:30, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Peanut4, of course! Very true (not that I'm biased at all :D). ~~ 21:35, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm shocked! Where did you live not to have heard this before? Bkpip —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.10.198.234 (talk) 10:13, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Grammar

I would rather have used "an" before "historic county" in the first paragraph too but when I tried to find a jusification I couldn't.This was the only properly referenced quote:

The rule regarding the choice between "a" and "an" refers to the kind of sound that is made at the beginning of the next word. I prefer to say that if it is a vowel or vowel-like sound, choose "an". With the word you give us as an example, "historian," I would use "a" because the "h" sound prevails. Compare this to "hour." You would say "an hour" because you don't hear the "h" in that word; instead, it begins with a vowel sound (very much like "our," in fact). It has something to do with the way we breathe with that letter "h." Try these: ____ unusual picture; ______ usual routine. (The word "usual" begins how? With a vowel sound or not?)Authority: Student's Book of College English by David Skwire and Harvey S. Wiener. 6th ed. MacMillan: New York. 1992.--Harkey Lodger (talk) 18:52, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Peanut4 and myself have already talked about this - see my talk page. The use of "a" over "an", or "an" over "a", with words like this seems to be down to personal preference and probably not something to get too worked up over. ~~ 18:59, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I'd agree with Harkey pretty much as per my conversation with JGXenite. Most words beginning with h ought to be a h---, but some are an h---. Honour is one and hour is another as Harkey says, though I don't think there's too many more. Generally it comes down to personal preference but to be correct it should be a historic in writing but probably an historic is more likely used in speech. Peanut4 (talk) 20:10, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Infobox

I expanded the infobox to include demographic data, with references, for 1831, 1901 and 1991. I was saddened to see this reverted by this edit. Is there an explanation for the removal of this information? MRSC • Talk 19:44, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

What is wrong with the standard, already agreed upon box, with the flag at the top and the map how it is?... like the regions of all other countries on Misplaced Pages have it? The new one looks very ugly and does not improve the quality of the article. - Yorkshirian (talk) 19:51, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean by standard or agreed upon. Template:Infobox England historic county was only ever used on a few (maybe 10-20 articles) and was essentially a cut down version of Template:Infobox historic subdivision, which is currently transcluded on 321 articles. See here: Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Infobox_historic_subdivision. The layout and design are very similar and both use class="infobox bordered". What is your objection to the extra demographic data? It surely adds some much needed information? MRSC • Talk 20:02, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Yorkshirian, why do you feel the need to revert all changes that try to improve the article (except obviously, your own)? You do not own the Yorkshire article, and (within reason) others are allowed to make improvements to the article. ~~ 20:20, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

I do not think I "own the article" in any shape or form as this is an open encyclopedia, and I have not reverted edits anymore times that you JGXenite. I just happen to contribute to the article frequently and its relating pages, compared to the gruesome mess before my efforts and look to attain a high standard for the article. The infobox is fine now, my problem is when things aren't in following with the standard (as explained below, which MRSC's template wasn't at the time). Edits are suppose to improve the quality of an article, thats pretty much the whole point of Misplaced Pages been open. - Yorkshirian (talk) 21:00, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

I've politely mentioned these concerns on his talk page. Although he has twice removed the comments and his reply was less than amicable. I'm not sure how else to engage him on this article. MRSC • Talk 20:34, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Aside from perhaps bringing in administrative intervention (since Yorkshirian seems to think they own the article) or intervention from the Yorkshire WikiProject, I'm not sure how else we can continue from here? ~~ 20:42, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

May be you could use a request for comment as a way forward? Keith D (talk) 21:07, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

I agree with Keith D, I stood back from trying to improve the article because my edits were reverted and my requests for information about and discussion of its structure were ignored. Even minor copy edits have been nulled.Perhaps some neutral comments on this users conduct would help.--Harkey Lodger (talk) 21:25, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Harkey Lodger: what you called a "copyedit" was actually the deletion of half of the article along with things essential to an overview of Yorkshire (mentioned in every other overview of the county), including the deletion of 10s of sources. As for the claim that you were ignored when you messaged me, that seems rather dubious when you consider out of the four messages on your talk, one of them is clearly me responding to you. Thanks. - Yorkshirian (talk) 21:16, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, according to instructions, at least two users need to have attempted to reach a consensus with the user. So far, I think only MSRC has done this. Has anyone else tried to speak to Yorkshirian about this? ~~ 22:16, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm also with MRSC on this. In addition to some hints of WP:OWN (which seem to be in good faith), I'm not happy with some of the edit summaries too here. I'm going to remove the term "traditional" as in "traditional extent of Yorkshire" - its a loaded, ambiguous and POV term, with no proper scholarly basis with regards to territorial demarcation. It's one to be avoided. -- Jza84 · (talk) 01:44, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Map caption

The map image is clearly the ancient boundaries. I would like to add something like Yorkshire within England in 18xx, but I don't want to claim a year without some sort of evidence or rationale. Perhaps 1881 would be good year to put as it was the last census before the the LGA 1888? MRSC • Talk 07:27, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

The metadata for the map doesn't elaborate. But it must be based on post Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 boundaries. Are we aware of any boundary reforms that took place for Yorkshire which involved exchanges of land? We could say something like "in the late 19th century"? -- Jza84 · (talk) 16:01, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

"Ancient" seems like a loaded Londoner/Lancashire (ironically, where you two happen to be from) anti-Yorkshire slur, to try and disparage the relevence of Yorkshire, when it was actually only done away with in the 1970s... traditional is fine, since they are known as the TRADITIONAL COUNTIES, the 1800s is considered as quite recent times in the scheme of things not ancient.

Note how Jza84 also edited out the fact that the term "Yorkshire" is fully known across the UK. Apart from that attempt to degrade Yorkshire, the article and the infobox is pretty much fine now, the infobox is now (it wasn't before) in following with all the rest on Misplaced Pages when it comes to local regional-esque type areas, with the symbol at the top and a proportioned map below (see, Texas, Valencian Community, Bavaria, etc) I would like to politely suggest, MRSC, if you are going to put yourself in a position where you think you WP:OWN all the templates, then please atleast check for things like this first, and make sure they are in following with all the other countries ones (like the ones cited above). Thanks. - Yorkshirian (talk) 20:50, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

I think you're misinterpretting my actions as bad faith, possibily to justify your prefered version. My actions were neither intended or actually imply any such things that you mention here.

Firstly, that Yorkshire is "completely" familliar is nothing to do with hiding the so called fact that it is "fully known". Do you have a source that every single person in the UK knows what and where Yorkshire is? By completely, I assume you're advocating that infants, tourists, the impaired are included in this "fact" that everybody knows it? Even if they did, it's a grammatical redundancy - something to be avoided. Also, on this, the notion of "fact" is to be avoided: "Facts are seldom facts, but what people think are facts, heavily tinged with assumptions." (Harold Geneen). The threshold for inclusion is verifiability, which your prefered statement breached.

Secondly, the term "traditional county" is problematic. By who's tradition exactly do they allude to? Is this term an official term? At what point did they become traditional? What traditional functions do they serve? Is Tetworth traditionally part of Berkshire, Huntingdonshire or Cambridgeshire? It's an ambiguous, point-of-view-term with dubious origin. Research has found it belongs soley to the Association of British Counties (a political pressure group) which asserts several bogus claims; they invented the term as a means to facilitate the spreading of their views. Certainly these are not part of my tradition, and they are not used in a ceremonial capacity, which is why I also personally object to the term. Scholarly research has revealed that documents refer to these as "historic" or "ancient" county boundaries, and so we cannot deviate from that.

I actually think that the ancient county system is important and deserves a prominent place within the encyclopedia. I've fought to have these mentioned in lead sections for settlement articles. They are particularly helpful there to avoid confusion, aid in historic context and help with genealogicial research. The views you display on your userpage coupled with some of the contributions you've made here, to me, imply that you may hold a cultural standpoint that isn't representative of source material and the editting and reading community. I believe you believe you have the article's best interests at heart, but I would urge you to consider that others (by which I mean published sources) are in conflict with your views which is why some appear to have caused this minor edit shuffle here. Try to avoid using Misplaced Pages to promote personal views. Certainly MRSC has cited his sources rather than push a personal point of view. I hope that clarifies my position on this. -- Jza84 · (talk) 23:41, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Aside from the abusive comments from Yorkshirian, which I have addressed on his talk page; I suggest we could use the caption Yorkshire within England in 1881. MRSC • Talk 03:54, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Do "impaired" people understand the concept of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland any more than they understand the concept of Yorkshire or any of the traditional counties? IMO that its kind of a straw man argument when measuring how well known something is. Could you provide proof of the "research" showing that the Association of British Counties "invented" the traditional counties, this seems kinda baseless without such a presentation.

Look, on your page you say you think "nationalism" as a concept is "outdated" and I'm presuming the same goes for "regionalism"... the word ancient is POV because it clearly makes it sound like it is a fossil concept, as if the counties stopped existing around the time of the Beaker people or something, when they existed up until the 1970s. "Ancient" carries a negative conotation in that light. IMO that could be you promoting a personal view against nationalism/regionalism, when Misplaced Pages is supposed to be NPOV.. so we have to provide a compromise and somewhere between the two, "historic" although repugnant in itself isn't as bad a "ancient"... however, I think the suggestion by MRSC would be suitable, Yorkshire within England in 1881 although England isn't a real country anymore, the map does infact show Yorkshire within the constituent "country" area of England in 1881 so its fair enough.

Though if anything good has come out of this dispute, apart from searching for a compromise, its you introducing me to the Association of British Counties: very interesting, despite the fact that you called some of its claims bogus. It seems when the subject of traditional counties come up, the oposition tend to prefer Yorkshire to have no official status at all (assuming good faith in this case of course), because when the traditional counties are in place, Yorkshire happen to be the most territorially endowed in Britain. Cheers. - Yorkshirian (talk) 05:07, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

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