Talk:Ohr Somayach

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Judaism Portal Ohr Somayach is part of WikiProject Judaism, a project to improve all articles related to Judaism. If you would like to help improve this and other articles related to the subject, consider joining the project. All interested editors are welcome. This template adds articles to Category:WikiProject Judaism articles.
Project Judaism To-do: edit purge watch Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Jewish and Biblical Units of Measurement or some such name, to include material of Ancient Hebrew units of measurement but also Talmudic units and use in Halacha (a la the Hebrew Wikipedia article he:מידות ומשקלות תורניים) Collaboration of the week { Cleanup: Jewish mythology - needs to be rewritten to be inline with our other mythology articles. Expand: Yom Ha'atzmaut - quite short for an article of such importance Wikiversity: School of Jewish Studies. Part of the new open content university, Wikiversity. Stubs: Category:Judaism stubs, Category:Tanakh stubs, Category:Synagogue stubs Update: Portal:Judaism is WikiProject Judaism's frequently updated portal. You can help make this the best portal on Wikipedia. Look at the talk page to see how you can help. Template loop detected: Template:WikiProject Judaism
NA	This article has been rated as NA-Class on the quality scale.
Low	This article has been rated as low-importance on the importance scale.

[edit] Yeshivat or Yeshivas?

A few minutes ago, I noticed that Yeshivat Ohr Somayach was changed to Yeshivas Ohr Somayach. My first reaction was to complain and revert it, using the Wikipedia rule concerning British spellings and American spellings of English words, that original editors can use what they want and later editors should not change it. Then I paused, and went to the Ohr Somayach website to find their official spelling, and I was unable to find either version! It seems that they call it Ohr Somayach Institutions throughout the entire website (perhaps to avoid alienating anyone). Okay, back to square one, to use the original spelling. So, then I checked the history, to see whether perhaps the original editor used Yeshivas, and some other person had improperly changed it to Yeshivat. It turns out that the phrase was originally entered in the modification of November 9 2005, by me! Therefore, I now exercise my prerogative as the original editor, who had originally entered it as "Yeshivat", and I allow the "Yeshivas" spelling to remain, being as that is how we pronounced it when I was in the Yerushalayim branch in '75-'80. --Keeves 18:35, 15 June 2006 (UTC)