Talk:See's Candies

Discussion re: David Templeton

Barbara Shack 18:23, 5 October 2005 (UTC)Fred E. Foldvary is professor of the Department of Economics, Santa Clara University, California. The independent Institute I disagree with User:Nlu. I believe a site the professor uses is likely to be fair and impartial. I've dug up another web site also critical of See's over the slavery issue. The Chocolate and slavery article cites many impartial organisations like the BBC. These organisations also allege that there is forced labour in chocolate production. (Apparently comments written by Barbara Shack)

• Who's David Templeton? tregoweth 23:59, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Barbara Shack 15:53, 7 October 2005 (UTC) David Templeton is a reporter for the art section of Metro Newspapers[1]. A great deal of his writing is about films, the arts and the like. He also writes about serious issues like the death of Dan Jaffe who was a humanitarian, [2]. Another serious issue he wrote up was chocolate workers’ slavery in an article titled, “Blood and Chocolate” [3] (Apparently written by Barbara Shack

References

• Metro Newspapers
• Missing Dan Jaffe
• Metroactive News and Issues

More about accusations of slavery

This was the text that I deleted:

David Templeton was given a pamphlet when he was about to enter a See's candy store. The pamphlet argued that child slavery is involved in the production of cocoa. The pamphleteers wanted signed papers on behalf of Global Exchange asking See’s to support efforts to end child slavery.

Templeton researched chocolate and slavery for himself. A fortnight later he got a letter from C.N. Huggins stating that See's had signed the Chocolate Manufacturer's Association protocol aimed at ending child slavery and had "actively cooperated" with the American Cocoa Research Institute the CMA, and the World Cocoa Foundation over "strong condemnation" of child slavery. Huggins also claimed See's was working with the governments of cocoa producer countries and the U.S. Department of Labor over, efforts to oppose slavery.

David Templeton concluded that See's had done little more than sign a petition.

Not is this not encyclopedic, but hardly supported by evidence. First of all (I am going to assume good faith and assume that all of the points asserted here were true) -- so what? Templeton got a pamphlet distributed by protesters. Templeton tries to verify the link -- but there is nothing in this paragraph that suggested that he actually was able to verify anything; rather, he received a letter that caused him to conclude "See's had done little more than sign a petition." OK? Then? There was no actual verification still of the "chocolate and slavery" link, which may very well be true, but not supported by "a pamphlet" nor by Templeton's own research. In other words, this text assumes way too many facts that are not in evidence. Unless you can come up with corroborating evidence (rather than unsupported assertions), this doesn't belong on an encyclopedia article. --Nlu 15:57, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Barbara Shack 12:41, 8 October 2005 (UTC)Sorry it has taken me so long to respond when Nlu asked for verification of my assertions and David Templeton’s assertions. On Friday I had to leave the Internet when the IT Centre closed. On Thursday I had other commitments. The quote below is from this web site. A web site run by American Universities is likely to be reliable. I have proved my point that there have been accusations that all chocolate manufacturers who buy cocoa on the world market will buy “products associated with forced labour” from time to time. This includes See’s Candies.

• Chocolate and Slavery

“Cocoa beans used to make chocolate come from different farms in different areas of Cote d'Ivoire. The beans are mixed together in transport to importing countries and also in the processing factories. Consequently, there are no solid data reflecting the possible amount of cocoa beans in the world market that are tainted by slave labor. Since it is nearly impossible to differentiate between cocoa beans harvested by child slave labor and coca beans picked by free labor, there is no way to distinguish between chocolate products associated with forced child labor either. “

The web site below gives further evidence that slavery is widespread in the Ivory Coast. The BBC has a high reputation for reliability.

• Mali's children in chocolate slavery

Barbara, after reading over the material you provided, I still feel this material doesn't belong to in the See's Candies article, for the following reasons:

First, this is not See's specific. To have a "accusations about slavery" section within See's, it is my opinion that there needs to be something See's specific -- that See's encourages slavery in such a way that is not industry-wide. It would be like putting in a section about conflict diamonds in every single jeweler's page. This is particularly, in my opinion, inappropriate because See's is basically a regional chocolatier; it is not a big multinational retailer/manufacturer in general (even though it does have a few stores in Asia). Templeton's opinions notwithstanding, there simply isn't enough there about See's. (And even if Templeton's opinions were fact -- which they are not -- it doesn't mean that See's encourages slavery, but only that See's isn't doing more to stop it.) You might as well add a section to every Wikipedian chocolate eater's user page; perhaps we are all not doing enough to stop the alleged slavery, but that would be highly inappropriate.

Second, there is already a separate article that covers the material. (I believe that Chocolate and slavery is way too POV, but at least the material is appropriate there once the POV issue is sorted out.) You really don't need to be repeating the stuff everywhere else. A simple link to chocolate and slavery is sufficient.

Third, the material, even if arguendo appropriate here, is still not NPOV -- for the reasons that are being discussed at Talk:Chocolate and slavery.

Therefore, I am reverting (again). If you disagree, you are free to request arbitration on this, and certainly, if you put in the material again (I am going to leave in the link to chocolate and slavery, I will request arbitration.

--Nlu 16:07, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

I've created a standard template ({{chocolate and slavery}}); see what you think. --Nlu 16:39, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Barbara Shack 14:53, 13 October 2005 (UTC)I've put your standard template in place

Image of Mary See?

The last paragraph says, "An image of Mary See can be seen in many locations throughout the United States, including Los Angeles, California and New York City, New York."

It doesn't make any sense. What kind of "image"? Where is this image? The word "locations" is extremely non-specific. I know most See's stores have a portrait of her on their walls, but there aren't any See's stores in New York. So what does this mean? With the wording here, it could mean that she has a relative in New York with a picture of her on his refrigerator door. Kafziel 14:49, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

No reply for two weeks, so I'm taking it out. Kafziel 21:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that the image of Mary See is the white-on-brown oval cameo that is part of the See's Candies logo. I agree with you that the way that was worded was confusing; your edit fixed the problem. -Ikkyu2 05:44, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Charles Alexander See (1882-1949)

Name: SEE, CHARLES ALEXANDER Social Security #: 560182564 Sex: MALE Birth Date: 15 Mar 1882 Birthplace: CANADA Death Date: 6 Nov 1949 Death Place: LOS ANGELES Mother's Maiden Name: WISEMAN Father's Surname: SEE --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 19:51, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Florence MacLean Wilson (1885-1956)

Name: SEE, FLORENCE MACLEAN Social Security #: 0 Sex: FEMALE Birth Date: 10 Dec 1885 Birthplace: CANADA Death Date: 23 Oct 1956 Death Place: LOS ANGELES Mother's Maiden Name: SOMMERS Father's Surname: WILSON --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 19:56, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

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2008 price mistake

I've removed this section because: a) There were no references to substantiate that this had actually happened, and b) WP:NOT#NEWS - "Wikipedia considers the historical notability of persons and events, while keeping in mind the harm our work might cause. Someone or something that has been in the news for a brief period is not necessarily a suitable subject for an article in their own right. While Wikipedia strives to be comprehensive, the policies on biographies of living persons and neutral point of view should lead us to contextualize events appropriately" Argyriou (talk) 17:40, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Founders recipe

The cans box note states “candy made Mary See’s way”. It’s sexist to say her son founded this company. 2601:49:4200:6810:7DC8:8513:69C1:33FF (talk) 17:16, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Mary See was the founder

If they used her recipe, and she was involved, why claim the son founded the business? 2601:49:4200:6810:7DC8:8513:69C1:33FF (talk) 17:38, 10 January 2022 (UTC)