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A fact from Master Francke appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 September 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,008 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the largest surviving painting by 15th-century Gothic artist Master Francke is an altarpiece dedicated to Saint Thomas of Canterbury?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/September.

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The result of the proposal was move the page from "Friar Francke" to Master Francke, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 04:23, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming to Meister Francke, now a redirect, with 26,800 ghits against 41 for "Friar Francke", mostly devived from this article. Johnbod (talk) 00:46, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Grove Dictionary of Art uses Master Francke. Meister appears to be NHG, modernized from the contemporary Low German Mester; including English search terms suggests that some 23,000 of those raw Google hits are not in English, presumably mostly in German. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 15:21, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, so does the Getty Name List, so I will amend the request, although I must say I am more used to Meister. "Master Francke" has only 3,530 ghits, so is still only about level with Meister in English. Johnbod (talk) 15:25, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Either looks better than Friar. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 15:30, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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.