Talk:The Gingerbread Man

I deleted a broken link in the reference section Ncnefan (talk) 20:09, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

I deleted a link to a webpage that had nothing to do with the fairy tale.--David Be 19:54, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Can we have an image please? There must be loads of great ones out there. Unfortunately, to a non-wikiEditor it seems rather a daunting prospect to upload pictures onto Wikipedia. :( —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.224.86.183 (talk) 04:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Title
This story is far better known as "The Gingerbread Man", and it was moved to "The Gingerbread Boy" by User:ItsLassieTime on November 21, 2008 without any prior discussion (so far as I can see), stating the move was "based on the 1875 title of the tale". That may be, but again I believe it's much wider known as "Man" and should be reverted. Jmj713 (talk) 14:57, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Ditto--Kurtle (talk) 23:45, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Totally agree! I've never even heard "Gingerbread Boy". The famous rhyme doesn't even work unless it's "Man"! Someone should correct the title.Gunstar hero (talk) 13:57, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was move per request.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:17, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

The Gingerbread Boy → — The tale is far more known by this name, and there was no discussion to move to The Gingerbread Boy in the first place. Harry Blue5 (talk) 12:25, 8 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Support. See above. The current name is Gingerbread Man, and the rhyme Run, run..., which only rhymes if it's man, has become an essential part of the story, so it's likely to stay that way despite its origins. Andrewa (talk) 15:54, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. -- Ja Ga  talk 23:45, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Support per nom and Andrewa. The rhyme does not work if it is "boy". &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 13:18, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Support WP:COMMONNAME --Labattblueboy (talk) 14:56, 9 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Support why did this get moved in the first place its gingerbread man--Lerdthenerd (talk) 12:27, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Analysis
I reverted this from the analysis section: "This analysis is ridiculous. What of Uncle Remus? And what of the fact that a baker was once a guilded profession? A sample of one story does not a conclusion make -- it simply makes one example." Because it didn't seem to fit. It's more appropriate here in the talk page. That being said, the whole analysis section seems a little odd. -W0lfie (talk) 19:14, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Possible sources of story
Storyline similarities to earlier Norwegian "Pannekaken" and also earlier low German "De dicke fette Pannkoken" and possibly much earlier East Slavic Kolobok fairy tales. --mhi (talk) 02:32, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Possible copyright problem
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