Talk:Lod Mosaic

Is this a sponsored site? Why this baroque title?
What matters here is the MOSAIC, the center/museum/Mr Shelby White's and Mr Leon Levy's financial contributions are NOT the topic here. This is supposed to be an encyclopedia. By the way, the mosaic has been touring around the world for 6 years and the opening date in Lod has been repeatedly postponed, by now by some 4 years. The exhibition tour is meant to collect money.... Nothing deserves less space in an encyclopedia than such endless, irrelevant "sauce" that is overwhelming the actual dish. So the article' title should clearly be [The] Lod Mosaic - period! All this sausage of money contributors' names, museum names etc. is fundamentally wrong. Whatever is common in the US in terms of self-advertising by making donations in exchange for connecting one's name to a famous piece of art, an educational institution, and what have you: again, this is a different context and it's about the 1800-years old MOSAIC. Which, hopefully, will be known and visited for many centuries after the donors' names have become footnotes and the museum has changed shape a dozen times. Instead of setting the donors' names in bold at the head of the lead, we'd better set there the actual date when the mosaic will return to Lod and be on display there. ArmindenArminden (talk) 17:59, 9 April 2016 (UTC)