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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk23:09, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Created by Bruxton (talk). Self-nominated at 03:15, 14 June 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Interesting career, on fine sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. The first hook as fine, but I could imagine to do justice to the woman by mentioning her also by name in the same hook. Feel free to try ALT2 below. - In the article (not needed to change all for approval, but some):
  1. I miss an infobox
  2. I am no friend of "Niedecken" in consecutive sentences.
  3. I am used to items being linked from both lead and prose.
  4. "attended" + "studied" for the same institute (twice) seems too much to me
  5. The Robertson book could join the last comment, to not leave that so short. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:38, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Gerda Arendt: Thanks for the review. I performed some quick fixes on the article. I appreciate the guidance.
ALT1a: ... that interior architect George Mann Niedecken worked with Marion Mahony Griffin, one of the first women architects in the United States?
Wasn't sure how to work it in there. I thought it may make people click to learn if I left it out. Bruxton (talk) 14:17, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
We can never be sure. I believe that connecting the perhaps unknown interior designer to some name known (FLW) would help more than some unnamed unknown woman, just for a "first" (and the article only says "one of the first". My solution would be:
ALT2: ... that George Mann Niedecken was a prairie style interior architect who designed furniture for Frank Lloyd Wright and worked for Marion Mahony Griffin? - trying to include her on the same high level and make people curious about who she was.
ALT2 preferred, then original, ALT1a (modified) with hesitation. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:33, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Gerda Arendt: I like that idea. I read that Mahony had a rift with Wright and never spoke to him again after they parted. Then she started her own firm. Imagine the moxy that took for a woman in 1900. After that she started a whole neighborhood in Australia. But I digress, Niedecken is an interesting sideman too. Bruxton (talk) 18:36, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Areas for Further Research/Development

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Hi There! New to editing Wikipedia here, but I moved into a home with interiors designed by Niedecken earlier this year and just realized a Wikipedia page now exists. I'd be interested in helping flesh out the article a bit -- are there areas that the other authors had in mind for future research/development? Salient Edge (talk) 22:44, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]