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A fact from Fisher & Fisher appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 December 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that architects Fisher & Fisher, the sibling partnership of Arthur and William Ellsworth Fisher, designed the oil company town of Parco, Wyoming, in a unified Spanish colonial style to foster community?
As far as I can make out from the history section, the company never was known as Fisher & Fisher. That throws the validity of the article title, and the DYK hook, into question. Can anyone clarify? Was there one company from 1892 to 1978, or a series of different legal entities? Kevin McE (talk) 07:39, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I think that you might be the The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. (Or perhaps "the Boy" if you have gender issues.) Looking these folks up in Noel's Buildings of Colorado I find about every possible combination of names, but when "Fisher and Fisher" is used it is for a generation later than these guys. For now perhaps writing "for the firm known as William E. Fisher and Arthur A. Fisher which, at this point, to me, seems to have been the firm's name. Art in Denver, a 1928 publication refers to them variously as "W.E. Fisher and A.A. Fisher" and Fisher and Fisher". This is something we need to look into, for sure. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 15:28, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Later sources use Fisher & Fisher (or Fisher and Fisher) or refer to "the Fisher brothers". It was definitely one company - the continuity initially being the founder (sometimes solo, sometimes with other partners, but for most of the time with his brother) and I have the impression that "Fisher and Fisher" was how they were colloquially referred to, but of course I can't document that. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:52, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
A Google book search focused on the early 20th century, using the terms "Fisher & Fisher" and "Fisher and Fisher" yields good results, if the UK solicitors of the same name are ignored. Here are a few examples:
I think the article name is okay as Fisher & Fisher. Binksternet (talk) 17:30, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, B, for doing the math (as that sort of thing is called here). Since I named the article (I think, I get vague about that sort of thing) in the first place I am okay with leaving it as is. Carptrash (talk) 18:25, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I started the article with the NRHP items that were attributed in the NRHP's NRIS database exactly to "Fisher & Fisher" (should have been 9 items). Carptrash, there could possibly be some more NRHP-listed places that could be added here now, if you'd check further, e.g. search "Fisher" in the available tool. I just added one item to the article that was attributed there to the spelled out names of both architects. There could be others by either architect. --doncram 19:20, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
