Talk:Harrods

message: Policy WP:CU states that any editor tagging or listing an article for cleanup must:
:Explain what needs to be done in a brief but specific manner in the article's talk page.
Apparantly this article has been so tagged since July, yet there is no sign of an explanation on this talk page. I can see nothing obvious about the article that deserves tagging, so I am removing the cleanup tag. -- Chris j wood 19:49, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The "History" section is actually a total copyvio from Harrods' own website and has been removed rather than placed on cleanup. A new history section will need to be written. --Vamp:Willow 11:12, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: :The "History" section is actually a total copyvio from Harrods' own website and has been removed rather than placed on cleanup. A new history section will need to be written. --Vamp:Willow 11:12, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyvio

message: I added this section on its own, but I am not sure whether it should be included under the Mohammad Al-Fayed title, or in its own right. I'd like to know what the watchers of this page think. Also, I believe the warrants are part of the Harrods "history" but as they no longer exist, should they appear on a wiki page? Again, i'd like to hear some thoughts.
--Schgooda 16:11, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All part of the history of Harrods so seems good to me. Glad the Imperial Mark has gone as that seems to be more-or-less meaningless.Mark Nesbitt 17:45, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I would easily assume that the Emporor of Japan has no habit of shopping at Harrods, so no one has earned any Imperial Mark. --Stat-ist-ikk (talk) 18:08, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Warrants 

message: There is no station on the London Underground called "Piccadilly Station". There is Piccadilly Circus, although since that is over a mile from Harrods it seems strange that it would apear in the game. Should it be Knightsbridge station, or is the game designers' London geography not up to much? 81.19.57.146
:If you are driving in London, then go outside of the built up area, and there is Stonehenge....that is Sega for you.--Stat-ist-ikk (talk) 09:20, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Street Fighter

message: From the "Compact Oxford English Dictionary": cater  • verb, chiefly Brit. 1 (cater for) provide food and drink at (a social event). 2 (cater for/to) provide with what is needed or required. 3 (cater for) take into account. 4 (cater to) satisfy (a need or demand). Clearly, the fourth sense is the most appropriate.  Therefore, "cater to" rather than "cater for" applies here.  Also, "cater for" is almost unknown in American English except in the first sense of the definition, which is inappropriate in the Harrods context.  Harrods is not a "caterer", a party-maker; it is a department store.    PeterHuntington 04:46, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catering 

message: Speculation suggests that claims of Prince Philip's personal involvement in the death of Al-Fayed's son and Diana, Princess of Wales led to the warrant's removal.
I'm removing this line. There isn't a shred of evidence, and the argument has no evidence or substance at all.
W2ch00 21:00, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prince Phillip Warrant 

message: I removed the entire section listing opening hours, bus/tube stops nearby, etc. This is totally un-encyclopedic info. Even the opening hours of famous museums are not listed here - this kind of info belongs on the institution's website. --Targeman 12:11, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Store access 

message: Nothing about the kinds of people who shop at Harrods and / or how Fayed has altered their marketing approach so as to attract moneyed tourists seeking a quintessentially English shopping experience, ironically given the total absence of English people shopping in Harrods (too expensive, too brash etc). 160.83.32.14 15:34, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harrods' Clientele 

message: The lead reads:
The store occupies a 4.5-acre (18,000 m2) site and has over one million square feet of selling space in over 330 departments. This makes Harrods the one of the largest department stores in the world together with Macy's New York (the UK's second-biggest store, Oxford Street's Selfridges is a little over half the size with 540,000-square-foot (50,000 m2)[1] of selling space).
The lead seems to imply that Harrods is the largest store in England while Selfridges is UK's second-biggest store. But, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't 50,000m2 larger than 18,000m2. So, perhaps either take out the Selfridges reference or clarify the issue. --RossF18 (talk) 03:37, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I know that's an old comment there, but just so there's an answer here on the page; the confusion appears to be that the lead talks about the size of the Harrods site (18,000m2) then says they have over a million square feet of selling space (without giving a m2 conversion), before comparing it to Selfridges only in terms of selling space. The numbers to compare are "over a million square feet" and "540,000 square feet". MorganaFiolett (talk) 09:09, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Size

message: The statement about Fayed having had the interior listed seems strange and vague.  You can't simply have buildings or interiors listed - you have to apply to English Heritage, who have sole discretion.  Also, that doesn't mean that nothing can ever be altered, it just means that you have to get permission.  There are 3 levels of listing, does anyone know which applies to the Harrods interior, and to exactly which parts?  Is the statement even true ?  I haven't been able to find any independent verification.Oinky (talk) 17:31, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harrods Interior Listed ? 

message: I propose we merge sections Background, Significant events in Harrods' history, Criticism, Egyptian cobra, and 2010 sale into one "History" section just below the lead.  They are all about the history of Harrods, but scattered all over both in placement and format (for example, the hideous trivia-list-style events section).  If we don't, we'll end up with more scattering as the store makes news again and again, and they'll start to contradict each other.  --an odd name 07:08, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I took the liberty of doing this, as the sections really were stupid (and the 2010 sale was covered twice). I'm not sure about the cobra, which may be trivia (as there is no mention of notability), but believe the criticism section should stand because its content is more important than its date. FMasic (talk) 21:10, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge history sections 

message: What exactly was sold by Mohammed Al Fayed to Qatar Holdings? The whole company including bank, airline, etc. or just the Harrods Knightsbridge location? Also, why use the term "Harrods Knightsbridge" if there is only one location? 66.31.76.221 (talk) 18:13, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Sale: Harrods vs Harrods Knightsbridge?

message: Harrods turns away a 15 stone woman? Really!? The citation says nothing of the sorts and a quick Googling leads to no other evidence. And even so, if it was true, it wouldn't mean her weight was the reason she was turned away and thus could be irrelevant. Sounds like a load of rubbish to me, remove it? Gul e (talk) 21:51, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/39591.stm I'll pop the cite in tomorrow. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 01:37, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Dress Code

message: I am a Wikipedia editor from the US. When it states that Harrod's was sold for 1.5 billion pounds (I have no "L" key on my keypad), is that billion, as in one-thousand-millions, or as in one-million-millions? It might be desirable to replace the word "billion" by the correct numeral. 207.237.79.219 (talk) 03:41, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: As an article about an English business, it is the English billion (thousand million). Gareth E Kegg (talk) 20:49, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The real English (or rather, British) billion is a million million (10^12). However, for reasons I have yet to discover, the British government decided in 1974 to change the official definition to that of the American billion, one thousand million (10^9). It is perhaps best, to avoid confusion, to avoid the term completely. G7mzh (talk) 16:34, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Billion?

message: Hey guys, student and n00b editor asking a question.
In the content section 2010 Sale, is the use of a profanity in the quote necessary? I know that it is a quotation but this may not count a encyclopaedic use.
Thank you,
A Clueless Student  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.98.230.39 (talk) 21:08, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I wrote the section, and I feel the use of the quotation shows Fayeds passion for his business. The "F word" does have a habit of jumping off the page though. I do hope you become a fully fledged editor someday, though :) Gareth E Kegg (talk) 21:30, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I've no problem with the profanity, but it does read rather disjointedly - perhaps his English is poor. However, that aside, should there not be a comma between bloody and fucking? Surely, one's allowed to punctuate a quotation.  Giano  21:20, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Profanity? 

message: I think this is a bit vague and biased in favour of the store. Quality - I've brought stuff from here that's very poor quality. They also sell food, souvenirs, furniture etc. --Andrew 21:37, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Products section 

message: The article makes no mention of other Harrod's stores around the world. E.g. Bangkok, Thailand. How come? http://hedonisthk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/harrods-tea-room-bangkok-thailand.html --Rebroad (talk) 14:23, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harrods in Bangkok, Thailand 

message: Some one was murdered near Harrods in 2019. Two men have been arrested.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.48.238.18 (talk) 12:15, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Dilbaro and al-Nazi have been arrested.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.48.238.18 (talk) 12:23, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Murder 

message: 1500 pages of pictures and text
*Harrods for Everything
Volunteer transcription project done August 2020. A copy of this should somehow be in this article.
I am unclear on whether Commons or Wikisource accepts epub files, which is what this site distributes. I am also unsure if epubs go in Wikipedia.  Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:25, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  1912 catalog available 

message: Harrods Limited is a department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England.[4] It is currently owned by the state of Qatar via its sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar Investment Authority. The Harrods brand also applies to other enterprises undertaken by the Harrods group of companies, including Harrods Estates, Harrods Aviation and Air Harrods. 93.171.221.87 (talk) 21:22, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harrods Limited is a department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England.[4] It is currently owned by the state of Qatar via its sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar Investment Authority. The Harrods brand also applies to other enterprises undertaken by the Harrods group of companies, including Harrods Estates, Harrods Aviation and Air Harrods.