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Restructure Amanda Ghost (reminder)



Hi Derek. Although several weeks have passed since the holiday season, I still hope they were enjoyable and meaningful. This is a reminder, if you are now available, to please have a look at my edit request to restructure Amanda Ghost's Wiki article, found at Talk:Amanda Ghost#Page restructure and additions ↗, as I explained in a previous message which is now archived at User talk:Derek R Bullamore/Archive 26#Restructure Amanda Ghost. Thanks so much. Londonhyrax (talk) 18:01, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

:Hi again Derek. This is a gentle nudge to kindly ask you if you might take a look at the Amanda Ghost edit request ↗ I posted in December, and if you can, to please implement the changes. If you need any additional information or help from me, I am happy to oblige, just let me know. All the best, and thanks in advance for your help. 80.87.24.205 ↗ (talk) 14:09, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

The Ruts



Hi – I noticed you placed a refimprove tag on The Ruts ↗. I've attempted to address the lack of citations (and truth be told, if you check out the talk page, you'll see my concerns with the page given that the preexisting text there was largely copied straight from The Ruts' defunct website bio). If you have the will and time, I would greatly appreciate if you'd give the page a look over and see if it's in decent enough condition to at least remove the tag. Thank you so much! Take care, and I hope you're well :)

(P.S. Please forgive my overuse of semicolons. I tend to overuse them when drafting text, and I realize I forgot to replace quite a few of them with alternative sentence structures. I can remove them if needed.) Afddiary (talk) 20:24, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

:Sorry for the delay in replying, but I have been away from home for a few days. I read through the current article and have given it a slight polish. I have assumed good faith in that I have not checked that the references listed actually support the text. Nevertheless you have done a great job and I have therefore removed the refimprove tag. Well done. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 12:05, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Rhiannon Leigh Wryn ↗


Hi Derek R Bullamore, I need more quotes from the website. Can you help me so they don't edit you? Thanks. 45.5.69.226 ↗ (talk) 00:12, 23 April 2025 (UTC)
:I have no interest in this subject and do not understand what you are asking for. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 12:03, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Replacing archive link with dead link to original URL



Hi there,

I'm not sure what the intent was in this edit ↗, but it appears that you replaced the archive link previously there with the original URL which has been dead for a *long* time and remains so...?

Ubcule (talk) 17:28, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

Tom Principato ↗



Dear Derek,<br/>
Thank you for the article on this blues rock musician. I used it as the basis for the counterpart in the German-language Wikipedia. However, when editing it, I realised that the content had hardly been updated since 2014/2015. I would be delighted if the German version could help refresh the original article. (The awards that Principato received in Germany are still being added). Greetings from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ↗ --Artessa (talk) 13:40, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
:Yes I would be delighted too. It is not often that I revisit articles that I have 'penned' (unless I find errors). It is not my article ↗ as such. All assistance, well intentioned of course, is very welcome. Best wishes. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 13:45, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
::Please don't count on my help (other projects, language barrier). It should only be a hint. And yes, the errors discovered have been corrected in the German text. Otherwise a few things have been added. All the best! --Artessa (talk) 14:11, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

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Revision to Bo Diddley ↗



Undid revision 1303108234 by AjaxSmack (talk) ''No it was not. Read the first paragraph of the 'Early life' section for fuller explanation.'' ↗

I did and found: ''"Bo Diddley was born...as Ellas Otha Bates...'''McDaniel''' eventually adopted him, and '''he assumed her surname'''."'' While he was ''born'' Bates, his name was changed to McDaniel very early and he used that legal name his whole life. Read this as an example. ↗

Note that many of his records are credited to "McDaniel",https://i.discogs.com/NNd8y4h4UU-0Z-TVcni8cww4-T7XeTPndU1QAUfkjQY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI3MDc4/MjYtMTcwOTcyNjI5/Ni0zODk2LmpwZWc.jpeg ↗ he has children are named "McDaniel"https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/local/2011/02/26/rock-n-roll-legend-bo-diddleys-family-contesting-his-will/31795530007/ ↗ and his grave reads "McDaniel".https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27264565/bo-diddley#view-photo=42120401 ↗

That's why I put "McDaniel" in the intro where his legal name goes, and left "Bates" in the Early life" section". — <span style="border:1px solid #004705;background:#168c1d;padding:2px;color:#e9ede9;text-shadow:black 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em; font-family: Georgia;">&nbsp;'''AjaxSmack'''&nbsp;</span> 13:27, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
:Yes, sorry, I think I got the wrong end of the stick. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 13:33, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

A call for a subsection review


Derek, we worked together back in the day—when I was on faculty, and regularly led students contributing to articles—with you characteristically coming in after, and fixing many things we found broken.

Besides a hello, which will unfortunately have to remain relatively anonymous, I wanted to call your attention to the "Controversy..." subsubsection of the Alan Price ↗ article, in its Music section, The Animals subsection. That subsubsection content is drawn from a single source, and I think someone who cares and knows about music should have a look, consult other relevant sources, reflect alternative perspectives if available, edit and cite as need be, and then remove my section tag.

Since I saw that you had already done some ref-improvement work there, I thought you the best person to ask. All yours, as I used to say. Cheers. 98.32.141.216 ↗ (talk) 03:09, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

:Hello again. Sorry for the delay in responding, but real life does get in the way from time to time! My initial reactions here are 1} How many times have I seen squabbling between now old men, about their perceived music-related injusticies in the 1960s, and how these still continue to fester over time; 2) that subsection is undoubtedly WP:UNDUE ↗ giving as it does one side the siutation without any WP:BALANCE ↗, which is clearly contrary to Wikipedia's desire for WP:NPOV ↗; and 3) actually the whole piece is misplaced, as it should be (IF anywhere) in the "House of the Rising Sun ↗" article. It is perhaps worth noting that one music journalist wrote "... Price departed (supposedly suffering from aerophobia)... Burton still maintains that Price's departure was because he had taken ownership of the lucrative publishing rights to 'House of the Rising Sun' and was therefore financially secure".<ref name="Larkin60">{{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music ↗|editor=Colin Larkin ↗|publisher=Virgin Books ↗|date=1997|edition=First|isbn=0-7535-0149-X|pages=15/16}}</ref>

:My view is that the subsection should be withdrawn, placed on the song's talk page and... well, let battle commence, if anyone can be bothered. (I grow evermore sceptical of the amount of time any editor spends looking at these 'old timer' article talk pages - although, to be fair, that talk page has seen some action over the years). - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 18:12, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

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Discussion at Talk:Terry McMillan (musician) §&nbsp;Cause of death ↗


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:I have contributed on the talk page. Thanks. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 13:16, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Got your message regarding the changes to Nora Jean Bruso page



Derek. appreciate your help. and could really use more assistance as this is new to me.

I have been trying to get the page to be Nora Jean Wallace. Its too confusing to her following and fans. She has been divorced for 10 years and has release new music and videos since What info can I get to make these changes.

here is her current facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/norajean.wallace

instagram -https://www.instagram.com/norajeanwallace/?hl=en

recent article and show at crossroads blue festival - https://www.crossroadsbluessociety.com/

Article on new album from Severn Records - https://severnrecords.com/nora-jean-wallace-deals-straight-chicago-blues-on-her-new-album-blueswoman/

Here is the schedule for this year's Chicago Blues festival you can see how she is listed here. https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_blues_festival9.html

You are probably right about the marriage. That will actually clear up some of the confusion

Again - really appreciate your help

Johndemsher (talk) 15:52, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Emily Neves §&nbsp;B-class/GA-class efforts ↗


25px|link=|alt= ↗&nbsp;You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Emily Neves §&nbsp;B-class/GA-class efforts ↗. <!-- Template:Please see --> sjones23 (talk - contributions) 19:23, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
::Thanks, but no thanks. I do not know anything about American voice actresses and have never heard of this lady ?! Perhaps I just look vulnerable, or plain daft ! - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 21:57, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
:::I see. I just wanted to ask. sjones23 (talk - contributions) 22:22, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Roy Wood's birth date



Hello. I believe you've changed Roy Wood date of birth back to 1946. I believe that he was born in 1947. I can send you a photo of his driving licence to prove this if you wish. &#126;2025-33391-05 ↗ (talk) 23:58, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

:There are four problems here. Firstly what some editor 'believes' is somewhat irrelevant, because the Wikipedia editing guidelines at WP:V ↗ state {{tq|Wikipedia's content is determined by published information rather than editors' beliefs, experiences, or previously unpublished ideas or information. Even if you are sure something is true, it must have been previously published in a reliable source before you can add it.}} Then there is the question as to why you have not provided a source for your assertion. WP:BLP ↗ states, among other matters {{tq| All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be supported by an inline citation to a reliable, published source}}. Plus photocopies of anything are not admissible, and you may need to have a look at WP:RS ↗, which sets out Wikipedia editing guidelines relating to the validity, or otherwise, of any proposed source material. Then there is the 'experience' shown by an editor who is making their first edit and talk page comments. One wonders what a sock puppet investigation may unearth. In short, your edits have been reverted. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 20:02, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

:PS. AllMusic ↗, for one, states 1946 ↗.

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:Now resolved. It is a long time since I made that kind of basic error. I must be getting old. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 11:46, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!



:Thank you - it is a long time; and a fairly lengthy timeframe since I last got a barn star too. Much appreciated. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 14:15, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
::Sadly, WP:Barnstar ↗s are underused, IMO.
::We seem to gravitate toward punishment, not rewards. Positive reinforcement builds; not so much with negative. It is one reason why Wikipedia has a recruitment and retention problem. <span style="text-shadow:#396 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; class=texhtml"><b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>)</span> 14:43, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
:::Yes, I do not know why the useage of barnstars has dropped off. Wikipedia at times resembles a battleground - one not helped by the softly softly, nice and easy approach to dealing with vandals and ne'er-do-wells. The long established, well meaning editorship always seems to come off second best in those circumstances (almost as if it is them who are in the wrong). Still, we keep going - never let the bastards grind you down ! Keep well. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 14:58, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
::::One of the ironies I have observed are the number of '''"Editor of the Week"''' award winners who come go a bad end. "Tall poppy syndrome ↗."
::::As to the use of barnstars, I am guessing folks feel they personally are unrequited, so why give them out to others. Somehow the giving of cost free electronic rewards is viewed as a Zero sum game ↗. Who'd a thought.
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:::::Ummm... I have not thought about that. Maybe because I was '''Editor of the Week''' once, albeit 12 years ago. It did not affect me, largely because I was in Australia when the award was made, following a set of losers ↗. Note, nothing much changes. Anyhow, by the time I got home I was old news. More shrunken violet than tall poppy !! - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 18:46, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
"You cheated death again." -- a repeated refrain from a friend of mine, Navy pilot, who regularly flew on and off an aircraft carrier. YGBSM ↗! Good for you. <span style="text-shadow:#396 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; class=texhtml"><b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>)</span> 19:33, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

How many etc


How many? I'm 66 years old, going on 67 as of April 2026.
How long? That's a personal question that will stay my own immense secret.
Who cares? I definitely do, since you made such lovely edits to my father's Wiki page (Russell Freeman -- the ORIGINAL one!).

The next time I take the ferry over to the UK for a visit to London and Bath, I'll give you a heads-up, and we can have a beverage or five. I'm thinking springtime of '26 since then I'll be old enough to do such things.

Best regards,
Paula Freeman
https://www.youtube.com/beadbop (LOTS of Russ tunes and videos)
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Happy First Edit Anniversary Derek R Bullamore 🎉


Hey @Derek R Bullamore. Your wiki edit anniversary is today, marking 20 years of dedicated contributions to English Wikipedia. Your passion for sharing knowledge and your remarkable contributions have not only enriched the project, but also inspired countless others to contribute. Thank you for your amazing contributions. Wishing you many more wonderful years ahead in the Wiki journey. :) -<span style="color:#990000">❙❚❚</span><span style="color:#339966">❙❙</span><span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#000"> GnOeee </span><span style="color:#006699">❚❙❚</span><span style="color:#339966">❙❙</span> ✉ 19:06, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
:Very kind and thank you. However, I do not know how many more years are ahead. Going to a friend's funeral tomorrow, just to put life in perspective. Nevertheless, ever onwards, ever upwards. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 19:14, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
::I’m truly sorry for your loss. Wishing you strength and peace. - <span style="color:#990000">❙❚❚</span><span style="color:#339966">❙❙</span><span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#000"> GnOeee </span><span style="color:#006699">❚❙❚</span><span style="color:#339966">❙❙</span> ✉ 19:19, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

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:Very kind and the best of the season to you too. Give Peas a Chance ↗ - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 16:05, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you


Thank you for the barnstar. You gave me one in October 2013 too! I see your edits here and there, and just wanted to say hello and thanks for your 300,000 plus edits. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:54, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
:You are more than welcome - twice over ! Hello to you too. This is a long shot but I posted a question of sorts on Talk:Cambridge, Massachusetts ↗ almost five years ago and have had no response. I do not suppose you live in the heart of Cambridge and would know the answer ? I said it was a long shot. To tell the truth, I am not certain after all this time what the hell I was going to do with the information. Ronnie Earl ↗'s article mentions the club in passing - perhaps it did not do so when I first set the poser. Either way, best wishes from dear old Blighty ↗. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 22:23, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
::Never been to Cambridge, but I'd love to visit Boston. Their downtown looks spectacular. Hey, cheers! Magnolia677 (talk) 22:52, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
:::I would recommend Cambridge ↗ over Boston ↗ any day of the week. To tell the truth I have never been to either, but I would bet they will be one hell of a lot closer to me, than those other places you mention are to you ! - Derek R Bullamore (talk)

Rev Gary Davis article cleanup


Hi Derek, thanks for assisting with my extension of Reverend Gary Davis ↗ by cleaning up etc. The article needed/still needs a fair bit of work/expansion which I am attending to intermittently as a side task versus other non Wikipedia activites. Your assistance and attention to detail is appreciated. Cheers, Tony Rees Australia... Tony 1212 (talk) 21:37, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
:You're welcome Tony. Sometimes it is easy to get too close to subject matter and lose a wider perspective. Keep beavering away when you can. I have ploughed a lone furrow for far too long on many blues articles here, and age is catching up with me. Best wishes. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 21:45, 6 March 2026 (UTC)


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update the elegants band members



Greg H current drummer &#126;2026-26528-67 ↗ (talk) 10:33, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
:So ? - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 10:37, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Kip Moore


Why did you add a [citation needed] to Kip Moore ↗'s DOB when there's already a source for it in the infobox? <span style="color:green">'''Ten Pound Hammer'''</span> (<small>they/them</small>) • <sup>(What did I screw up now?)</sup> 12:49, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
:Errr, because I missed it, I guess. Not usual to have citations in the infobox is my best excuse. Sorry; thanks for pointing that out. I must try harder. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 13:07, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Kursk ↗



this edit ↗ (the last diff, in honors) changes a google books link to a google search error page. refill bug perhaps? Morwen (talk) 12:38, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Similar issue here ↗ too. Morwen (talk) 12:39, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
:Yes, probably. One needs to have an eye in the back of one's head using Refill (actually about three). I usually catch these many imperfections but clearly not always. I have had another go at Kursk ↗. Thanks. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 13:04, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

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{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have 84 Yorkshire featured articles:

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 ↗ • Bobby Peel ↗ • 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 ↗ • 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning ↗ • Dracula ↗ • Poisoning of Abbot Greenwell ↗ • James Cook ↗ • Joe Johnson (snooker player) ↗ • Dredge (video game) ↗

{{classicon|FA}} There are also 17 featured lists:

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 ↗

'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.


; Article Activity

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{{icon|FA}} Dredge (video game) ↗ promoted to FA on '''31 May 2026'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} Zayn Malik ↗ nominated for GA on '''18 June 2026'''<br />
{{icon|GA}} Edward Victor Appleton ↗ promoted to GA on '''20 June 2026'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} 1999 World Snooker Championship ↗ nominated for GA on '''22 June 2026'''<br />
{{icon|GAN}} Doncaster Racecourse ↗ nominated for GA on '''24 June 2026'''<br />


; Member News

There are 107 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! No new members have joined us since the June newsletter.

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; '''Assessment'''<br />Assess and review ↗

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; Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire ↗ in April 2008.

'''Specific aims''' for the project are:-



;'''Priority Articles'''

The '''top priority articles''' that have been identified to date are as follows -


The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.


;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''

The July 2026 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.

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|194
|1 Feb 2026 ~ 28 Feb 2026
|Ilkley Tarn ↗
|Beverley Racecourse ↗
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|195
|1 Mar 2026 ~ 31 Mar 2026
|Parkin Jeffcock ↗
|Church of St Lawrence, Kirby Sigston ↗
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|196
|1 Apr 2026 ~ 30 Apr 2026
|Keighley & Worth Valley Railway ↗
|Drummer Hill Farm ↗
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|197
|1 May 2026 ~ 31 May 2026
|Lodge, North Yorkshire ↗
|Ethel Preston memorial ↗
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|198
|1 Jun 2026 ~ 30 Jun 2026
|Middlesbrough Lifeboat Station ↗
|Fulwood, Sheffield ↗
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|199
|1 Jul 2026 ~ 31 Jul 2026
|Northallerton engine shed ↗
|Grand Theatre, Leeds ↗
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Please nominate future articles for improvement at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire ↗.


; '''Please bear in mind...'''

File:Imbox style.png ↗The project is subscribed to a '''clean-up listing''' ↗ which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis, usually on a Tuesday.



;Thanks





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Thanks...


For your look-in at Carlos Lazada. The bare URLs were my next task, but always glad to share the load, esp. with you. Signed, with appreciation, a retiree you used to help, periodically, back on the day. &#126;2026-29695-38 ↗ (talk) 15:01, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
::As always, you are welcome. It is nice to have some appreciation once in a whle. Cheers, - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 15:09, 8 July 2026 (UTC)