User talk:Govvy

Consensus

Govvy, I, like you, am opposed to discussing mergers at AfD. I don't know what your reason is, but mine is that things should only get to AfD if administrator action would be needed to enact the proposal. Otherwise I don't see what is wrong with talk pages. Unfortunately consensus is against us. We have to accept that, although you are welcome to campaign to change it in the appropriate place, which is not an individual AfD discussion, and without personal attacks. Phil Bridger (talk) 09:10, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

@Phil Bridger: The title is clear; WP:AfD Articles for Deletion, nothing about that title says merge. Also, I don't see where all this consensus is or what talk page it is going on, on. But at the moment, wikipedia is going down hill. I edit it less and less these days. I use to like this project. But now, I see a rather young immature crowd on here. Combining the two I consider the hight of lazyness. Govvy (talk) 09:33, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Picking fights in random merge requests is immature. There was an RfC discussion in April which resulted in "not enough consensus to move forward". This is the policy for now. SenshiSun (talk) 00:37, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@SenshiSun: Picking up 7 days late is completely inappropriate and fire starting. Which is totally your fault. You shouldn't have posted here in the first place and you should be ashamed of yourself. Govvy (talk) 09:08, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Govvy, now you have confused me. I can't imagine any adult writing that, but you have been here for over 20 years. Phil Bridger (talk) 15:10, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

I see now that you're a Spurs fan. I suppose that explains your state of mind at the moment. Phil Bridger (talk) 08:20, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Would a separate topic have been better? Not trying to start fires here; just informing you about the discussion. I apologize for my behavior. I was not aware there was a deadline for discussions like this. What is it, for my refrence? SenshiSun (talk) 22:43, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

Hello Govvy,

New Page Review queue November 2025 - May 2026

Backlog update

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

2024 and 2025 NPP Awards

JTtheOG was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.

Hey man im josh and MPGuy2824 won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

BoyTheKingCanDance, Rosiestep, SunDawn, and Vanderwaalforces were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

January–February backlog drive

The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

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Articles for Creation backlog drive

Hello Govvy:

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Coventry City

Hello, I wanted your take on the Seasons section of the Coventry City article. I tried to remove this section as I thought it was unnecessary and some of it seemed like WP:INDISCRIMINATE information but was reverted due to 'vandalism'. I saw you warned the user I was reverted by about adding overkill statistics on their talk page previously.

This seems to be a running theme across Coventry City articles and there also seems to be quite a bit of ownership behaviour too in my view. I saw this on 2024–25 Coventry City F.C. season where the overkill stats were just added back later on after @User:Jkudlick had removed them.

The seasons section is also mostly entirely unsourced and already has a separate spin off article called List of Coventry City F.C. seasons which covers this information. This article seems too bloated and a bit of a mess as it is but would appreciate your perspective on the matter. Michaeldble (talk) 04:59, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

New pages patrol September 2026 Backlog drive

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Nine years ago

When I joined Wikipedia nine years ago, other users who uses watchlists would recognise me as a new user without a user page and you pointed out that changing wording would seem like a Vulcan was changing some of these articles - Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football/Archive_111#Terminology_(game→match,_games→matches). I'm sure these days that I am now recognised as an established user who is not being queried about some of the initial edits I made nine years ago as an obvious newbie. Iggy Swan (Contribs) 07:47, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

@Iggy the Swan: Hiya, I've lost a lot of heart for this project of wikipedia, so you'll have to forgive me. Wish you well and a long life. Regards Govvy (talk) 21:31, 10 September 2026 (UTC)

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