Talk:Kiwi (shoe polish)

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Contents 1 First modern shoe polish? 2 Merged-in text from shoe polish 3 Counterfeiting 4 Ownership 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Kiwilogo.JPG 6 Jingle from the 1950s or earlier

[edit] First modern shoe polish?

Despite the blurb on today's (Dec 15 2005), "Kiwi" was not "the first modern shoe polish". The German brand "Erdal" was patented in 1901.Kar98 16:41, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

For further discussion of this matter, please see Talk:shoe polish.

[edit] Merged-in text from shoe polish

Having just now merged in a lot of text from that article, I've done the basic clean-up necessary to make the article not broken. No doubt it's still rather clunky, though. Doops | talk 20:35, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Counterfeiting

I heard from Diggnation episode 47 that Kiwi shoe polish is the most counterfeited product in the world, if it is true, a reference to that would be appropriate in the article. --Jcmaco 20:48, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

It would indeed. Do you have a reference for this? If you do, then it's definitely encyclopedic information. Proto///type 08:27, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ownership

Do Sara lee still own it? Not clear. Rich Farmbrough, 15:26 11 December 2006 (GMT).

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Kiwilogo.JPG

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:15, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jingle from the 1950s or earlier

Yes, everybody loves that Kiwi shine,
Twice the polish in half the time.
K, I, W, I!
The shine for you and me.

I don't think advertising claims had to be backed up by research in those days. Koro Neil (talk) 10:21, 26 January 2008 (UTC)