Talk:Reuben

What the heck does "I am Reuben" mean?? www.myspace.com/reubenakabonez thats what the heck "i am reuben" means

Many Rubes
There are many ways to say "Rube"

Reuben Reubens Rube Rubes Reub Reubs

They should all point to the same disambiguation page to avoid confusion and mess of of cross-referenced dab pages. -- 71.191.47.120 19:16, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

WTF
Rube is not related to Reuben. It's like someone who's naive, or else Rube Goldberg. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 15:35, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

“Rube” is both a nickname for “Reuben” and a common noun, used informally, for a naive person or chump. Rube Goldberg’s given name was Reuben. That’s wtf. :-) — ℜ ob C. alias ALAROB 16:32, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Alternative to Robert?
The claim that Reuben is used as an alternative to Robert is unsourced and strikes me as implausible. Probably someone took a single anecdote and made it into a custom. What is an “alternative” name anyway? — ℜ ob C. alias ALAROB 16:30, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

My edit was reverted with the comment "It is used as an alternative for Robert, such as Robert Gibson, whose name was Ruben but he anglicized it as Robert." But this is using a single anecdote to support a claim that Reuben is "often used" as an alternative to Robert. Not only is it faulty reasoning; it's original research. The sentence doesn't belong in the article. -- ℜ ob C. alias ALAROB 21:58, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Removed a paragraph making unsourced claims that


 * “the form Ruben can also be a form of the name Robin” (where the phrase “can also be” is doing a lot of work), and
 * that the name Robin is “a variation of the Germanic name Robert in several Celtic languages” — a claim that is unsupported by the article Robin (name), which reports a French derivation and no Celtic variants or borrowings.

There was also some original research, or rather, uninformed speculation, about the supposed relationship between “Robert” and “Ruben”, in which an Old High German element (Hruod) was substituted for the Anglo-Saxon Hrō&thorn; that inconveniently contradicts the speculation.

I hope this is the last we will hear of this imaginative pet theory. — ℜ ob C. alias ALAROB 14:04, 30 May 2023 (UTC)