- The following discussion 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 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:38, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Tommi Parzinger
edit- ... that renowned German furniture designer Tommi Parzinger spent the last 15 years of his life working on Expressionist paintings?
- Reviewed: Viktor Bondarev
Created/expanded by Silver seren (talk), Strivetolive (talk). Nominated by Silver seren (talk) at 00:14, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
- Comment: Reviewer, do note that the former version of this article since its creation was a complete copyvio of a biography page on Parzinger. I rewrote the entire article to fix the copyvio, so it is subject to the 5 day rule from when I started rewriting it and not from the article's creation date. Thanks. SilverserenC 00:29, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
The rewrite is acceptable in terms of age and length. However, the article does not seem like a full treatment (per Rule D7), as it is based on only two sources and reads like a sketch. A cursory search of Google and Google Books turns up more sources that could flesh out this article. Additionally, I don't know if you did it to satisfy DYK's no close paraphrasing policy, but you're overusing quotes. It's silly to write: Parzinger died in 1981 and his "last showroom, on East 57th Street", or: His works were "highly prized and heavily collected" by famous clients. These and others can easily be rephrased in your own language. You needn't put quotes around industry terminology, either, like "original working drawings". Best, Yoninah (talk) 16:17, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
- I've fixed some of the quotes and also expanded the article with more references. The issue with searching for info on Parzinger is that, while it is his name, it is also the name of his style of furniture and it is also the commonly used name for his company. So it's rather difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. Google Books is pretty much useless, as it is full of just advertisements for his furniture and not actual info. But after scrounging through Google News, I was able to find a bit more. It also doesn't help that most sources are paywall blocked because of their age. SilverserenC 20:40, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
