Talk:Anita Roddick/Archives/2012
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Death
It is Wikipedia policy to include the death of a subject only when there are reliable sources that can be referenced. Please adhere to this policy. It shouldn't be hard to find a source as she is a well-known person. ... discospinster talk 19:59, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
- There was quite an edit frenzy going on last night, with loads of revisions to the death information, including adding sources. At the time the death info wad removed, it would have been easy to check and add a source instead of removing the info. Mayalld 06:58, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
If only it was just a rumour! She was a good person and will be sadly missed. -- Derek Ross | Talk 23:58, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
She was? I've heard just the opposite. Gerry Ryan just described her as "just about the rudest person I've ever met." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.243.9.242 (talk) 20:00, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Why doesn't the Wikipedia entry for Anita Roddick include the comments that she made some years ago bagging much of the product line at The Body Shop? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.172.11.21 (talk) 10:10, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Pic
"Free image" doesn't mean "found it on the web", I'm afraid. See WP:NONFREE - David Gerard 22:37, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Family background
I understand that she had one brother and two half-sibs, and that she found out that her real father was Henry when she was age 19. I understand that her mother was married twice. This was featured in a BBC interview of Anita Roddick in the year 2000 with Vanessa Phelps - repeated :3 October 2007 on BBC2. I guess that this BBC interview is probably a reliable reference, so the "family background" section may need rewriting. Snowman 18:19, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
- The Times obituary, corroborates this. I have made some amendments. Snowman 11:53, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
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Controversy section
This had several problems:
- Written in an entirely non-neutral tone
- Not properly integrated into the rest of the article
- Largely about the Body Shop itself rather than about Roddick - indeed, much of the text has been pasted in identical form into the article about the chain
Much of this material needs to be covered in the Roddick article, but putting it in a separate controversy section doesn't work. I'll try and reintegrate the material (there's plenty of references) over the next day: have pasted it below in the meantime.
The myth of the Green Queen by Jon Entine[1] During her lifetime, Body Shop founder Anita Roddick savvily cultivated a reputation for innovation, integrity and social responsibility.[2]
Entine documented that Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop in 1976, had stolen the name, store design, marketing concept and most product line ideas from The Body Shop founded in 1970 in San Francisco by two California women, and subsequently fabricated her claims of traveling around the world discovering exotic beauty ingredients. Roddick's "natural" products were found to contain extensive amounts of artificial colorings, scents and preservatives. Despite Roddick's claims and un-verified reports in popular articles and even some university case studies that Roddick and Body Shop "gave most of its profits to charity," as Roddick had proclaimed, Body Shop was found to have contributed very little money to charitable causes, less than half of what average companies had contributed during the first 17 years of the company's existence. Body Shop also faced millions of dollars in claims by disenchanted franchisees, who believed they had been fraudulently enticed to buy franchises or who believed they had been mistreated by a company they came to believe was unethical. The article in Business Ethics, which was honored with a National Press Club Award in 1994, also documented the hypocritical marketing of other self-proclaimed "green" firms that promote themselves as progressive, a phenomenon he labeled as "rainforest chic." This article became an instant classic in business ethics studies and is generally credited with prompting companies claiming to be socially responsible to match their claims with operational practices and to increase transparency.
About the Bodyshop Story from Encyclopedia of leadership, Volume 4
By George R. Goethals, Georgia Jones Sorenson, James MacGregor Burns[3]
Article in Berkely Daily about BodyTime(The Original Body Shop [4]
How Bodyshop tried to stop this information from getting mainstream:[5] Gusworld (talk) 10:13, 30 August 2009 (UTC)