Talk:Harriet the Spy

Not very good
Well i could say that the book was not very good because her book wasn't returned to her and she didn't ssaw Ole Golly well for me it would be nice if she would be a flower girlin Miss Golly's wedding. hehe. Well that's what i though. That's all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.84.116.87 (talk • contribs) 05:40, 11 May 2005


 * I agree, this is one poorly written article. I may get into writing my own piece on this and replacing the old bad one. ^_^ --Beneficii —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.4.241.178 (talk • contribs) 00:41, 29 June 2005


 * Not to mention the lack of a "Controversy" section....TheListUpdater 22:32, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

???
Who got fired? Golly or Rosie O'Donnell?

--Beneficii —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.4.241.178 (talk • contribs) 00:41, 29 June 2005

Little Joe Curry
Hmm, that's odd, this article says that the deliveryman wasn't in the movie, but I just watched the movie about a month ago and I could have sworn he was in there. He was working for the Chinese family. Is it just saying he's not in there because he worked for the Italian family in the book? That wouldn't make any sense, though, because the Italian family was changed into the Chinese family for the movie. I swear I remember seeing him as a character in the movie, though, even though I don't think they said what his name was. Shivers  talk  21:15, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

M for Middle?
I've taken the liberty of removing this assertion (that Harriet's middle initial actually stands for "Middle") from the article. The book never states that Harriet's self-applied initial stands for anything in particular. Cactus Wren 06:12, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Calling someone a "hapa" is derogatory.
I edited part of the "discrepancies between movie and book" part because it was sort of offensive.

"Rachel Hennessy, a white character originally (drawn in the book as having dark hair and freckles and wearing glasses), was portrayed as a Hapa." (this is what it once said.)

I'm pretty sure that is, not only incorrect to say, but also pretty offensive to say, as well. I don't know what the race of Teisha Kim is, but I'm sure she doesn't describe herself as a "Hapa."

69.106.224.123 00:58, 2 August 2007 (UTC)Maika0*

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Protection
Why is this article protected? Larklight (talk) 00:05, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, I get it. Larklight (talk) 00:06, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Does wikipedia just protect anything that gets posted on http://xkcd.com, as the XKCD masses are known to edit wikipedia mercilessly? - anon  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.126.1.20 (talk) 00:44, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Maybe we need an XKCD-bot, which automatically recognizes words in the xkcd comments and automatically locks all articles with topics looking similar enough :) --Tetha (talk) 10:14, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * That seems incongruent to me with Wikipedia's policy of not protecting featured articles... nihil (talk) 12:33, 8 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Today's featured article always receives enough constructive traffic from random sources to prevent it from being impacted negatively. Obscure articles on literature or physics (as often used as the subjects of XKCD) do not. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 15:25, 10 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Maybe I'm missing something but why wouldn't the XKCD mention belong under the "popular culture" rubric for this?--Thalia42 (talk) 22:19, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I have to agree. If we're talking about having an "xkcd Bot", then xkcd is certainly big enough to be a popular culture reference. I'll wait until tomorrow (the tenth) when the protection drops, just to be sure. Omniferous (talk) 09:04, 9 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Errr, no. Popular culture sections are supposed to be about references which have impacted popular perception of the subject, not random examples of the subject being mentioned in fictional works. If filled with indiscriminate cruft then they lose all purpose and just become trivia dumps. XKCD belongs in such a section on stick figure because it's one of the highest-profile examples of modern stick figure art. It does not belong on centrifuge or Punnett square or nuclear submarine just because one happened to feature in a comic once. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 15:25, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Updated
Unsurprisingly, this started right back up (with new IPs) as soon as it was unprotected, so I've requested semi again. This sort of thing finally annoyed me into writing WP:XKCD this morning, which I'm going to point at in future when addressing this sort of thing. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 14:40, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism
At least two people have severely vandalised the page. I am unsure as to how to revert the edits. Thank you. ( 😺Galaxycat😺  talk  08:39, 30 September 2012 (UTC))

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Harriet the spy
The plot is to long MindyXie (talk) 05:38, 8 September 2018 (UTC)