Talk:Ōtorohanga

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Concerning the 'Harrodsville' incident: From memory there was no shop owned by anyone named 'Harrod' in Otorohanga but there was the Menswear shop run by brothers Karam and John Haddad. At the time their shop was called 'Haddads' or 'Haddad's' and emulated the letter font used by Harrods of London, resulting the aforementioned action.

Scooter1138 (talk) 08:45, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Scooter1138 : the harrodsville incident DID happen, but it happened so long ago and there is excessive unverified information about it on here. I say 'excessive' because this happened a long time ago and is no longer relevent enough to generate such a long story about it. Therefore I'll edit it shorter, leaving only the most relevant statements, and search for verfication. Happyfeijoa (talk) 22:13, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

"London rival of Harrods"???
That's a bit like calling Ford a "rival of Ferrari". M&S is a good quality, solid brand - but Harrods it ain't! 86.136.251.177 (talk) 10:20, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

What was motive of "happyfeijoa" deleting much of a story about Otorohanga's history? The Harrodsville episode did happen and this writer was the initial instigator of the episode, as for "Happyfeijoa" saying the previous report was excessive and irrelevant then he/she/it should refer to a recent book called "Myth New Zealand" by Justin Brown which has 5 pages devoted to the Harrodsville send up. No lesser person than Sir Robert Jones declared Harrodsville to be an incredible nose thumd at Harrods. As for it being unverified, "Happyfeijoa" should visit the Haddad's shop in Otorohanga and view the many newspaper articles afixed to their shop window. The Wikipedia story was hardly an unsubstantiated story "Happyfeijoa". Everything in the article deleted by "Happyfeijoa" had been written by several people who were directly involved with the Otorohanga Business Assn. which carried out the escapade. Here's hoping people like "HF" don't tamper with Otorohanga's Kiwiana and Kiwihouse stories. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.224.16.197 (talk) 10:12, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello Barry; If you adhere to wikipedias rules you will understand that unverified information is deleted on wikipedia to prevent misleading information and vandalism. If you check the 'Otorohanga' wikipedia page you will see that a admin on wikipedia, Gadfium, has deleted the changes you made because they were excessive and unverified. newspaper clippings in a shop window are not counted as verification. My efforts to clean up the Otorohanga page were definitely not vandalism; if you notice what I actually did was add more verified facts to the page to improve the article(which is the purpose of wikipedia) instead of trying to shamelessly plug Otorohanga. As you can see there is still verified information about the particular Harrods event so people wanting to know more about it can search further. Happyfeijoa (talk) 05:53, 1 February 2011 (UTC)