User talk:Whitehouse Online

February 2023
Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to List of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. records and statistics, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Govvy (talk) 20:03, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

I'm sorry, what information are you claiming to be incorrect? Whitehouse Online (talk) 20:27, 7 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, fellow Wikipedian. Thank you for your edits but you are one of several who are incorrectly changing the statistics on the above page. You change Greaves’ total from 268 to 266 but simple arithmetic says the component figures of 220, 39 and 9 add up to 268. Changing the total to 266 clearly creates an error. In addition, you delete my explanation that the 266 statistic does not include the two goals scored in the F A Charity Shield (of 1962). Further, the detailed club statistics on Jimmy Greaves’ own page – broken down by season – also add up to 268 and contain a footnote by another editor regarding the Charity Shield. When Kane reached 266 a couple of weeks ago, both Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer stated on the BBC that the commonly used statistics for Greaves did not include the Charity Shield. Wikipedia's statistics do. I hope this explanation is helpful to you. LenF54 (talk) 17:09, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

I'm well aware of the 2 charity shield goals, but they aren't counted as official goals, even Tottenham aren't including them, just because Wikipedia are counting them that doesn't mean it's correct. you're obviously more of a fan of Greaves than you are of the facts, which is ironic when Wikipedia is a fact based website. It's fine, we'll all wait for Harry Kane to score two more goals and then it can be adjusted, wouldn't want to upset anyone. Whitehouse Online (talk) 21:18, 11 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Why aren't you counting Charity Shield goals as official goals? It was an official competitive match and that is why Wikipedia includes them. If the THFC website chooses to omit them, then that is a matter for the THFC website. The goals are facts and therefore included in Wikipedia. You will note that Trent Alexander-Arnold's goal in last year's Community Shield is included, as are the goals scored by Salah, Nunez and Alvarez, so Wikipedia is being consistent. Greaves' goals have been discussed at length on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Archive 158#Jimmy Greaves 266 or 268 goals? and on WT:FOOTBALL. The consensus is 268. LenF54 (talk) 17:25, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

No problem, as I said, we'll just wait for him to score a couple more, then it can be updated 👍 Whitehouse Online (talk) 22:46, 13 February 2023 (UTC)