Talk:Showbread

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[edit] shewbread

Can someone explain to me why this article is named shewbread, not showbread. (I understand that there is a redirrect, but it should be the other way around - I have never heard of shewbread, but I do know of showbread). also throughout the article showbread, not shewbread, is used Jon513 21:45, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Rename This article should be renamed. (And, BTW, I didn't get here via wikistalking. It had to do with research as to work done in the mishkan parlaying into being assur on Shabbat.) Reuvenk 00:57, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

OBJECTION There is no point renaming this article, as the Shewbread goes by many names. "Shewbread" is well established in English, being the King James translation, after the German "Schaubrot". "Showbread" is simply a modernisation. But it is also known as "Bread of the Presence (literally Faces: Hebrew panim)" or "Loaves of the Proposition (Greek prothesis, Latin propositionem)", so it is pointless to change the name here.

Thank you for you insight. However I have already changed the name of the article some time ago, and the time to debate this point has passed. As shewbread redirects to showbread (just like University of Durham redirect to Durham University), and the article mentions both, there is little practical difference. One of my reasons for changing it was that showbread has more google hits than shewbread. You can also see Wikipedia:Naming_conventions and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) for more information. Jon513 22:11, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stub?

I note that this article has the stub tag at the bottom, although it seems pretty well established to me. If nobody objects, I'm going to remove the tag. jf 16:43, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Go ahead, stubs often last longer than the should. Each person just adds one or two sentences (and how can one sentence change it from being a stub...) and before you know it, it is no longer a stub. Jon513 13:24, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I have now removed the tag. jf 16:43, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

It is indeed a stub. It's stub because it's mostly still simply a copy of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia article without additional content. The Jewish Encyclopedia has a particular editorial POV as well as (of course) being outdated, and regularly violates a number of Wikipedia policies, such as vouching for sources etc. Needs work. --Shirahadasha 08:53, 4 December 2006 (UTC)