Template:Did you know nominations/Rachel Skinner
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:15, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
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Rachel Skinner
[edit]... that Rachel Skinner is set to become the youngest ever President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2020?Look ahead to 2020 when I will become the youngest ever president of the Institution of Civil Engineers- ALT1:
... that Rachel Skinner was one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering in 2016 and the most distinguished winner of 2017 at the European Women in Construction and Engineering Awards?Rachel Skinner, the Past President of WTS London, has been named as one of the top 50 Women in Engineering Rachel Skinner the most distinguished winner of 2017
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Created by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 18:28, 1 November 2017 (UTC).
Interesting life, on good sources, no copyvio obvious. I am sorry that I don't like looking in a 2020 future, as the original hook does. The ALT is a load of awards, how about just the first? I am not sure what "the most distinguished winner" should mean, - are their less distinguished winners? - Article: it says - admittedly as the sources also do - a lot about awards and little about her concrete engineering work. Any other sources? Can you introduce her company, instead of the cold water of an abbr? One ref is missing a title. The ref numbers might be sorted. Almost there ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:16, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hi Gerda Arendt, thanks for your review and comments. I have proposed a couple more alternatives below that I hope are interesting. Unfortunately I couldn't dig out much more on her career, she seems to be mostly research based, rather than project work (which would be a bit easier to write about). I fixed the title for the ref and ordered the ref numbers. WSP is only an abbreviation (a long time ago it was William Sale Partnership but is now just an abbreviation, much like BP is no longer British Petroleum) - Dumelow (talk)
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... that Institution of Civil Engineers vice-president Rachel Skinner became an engineer "by accident"? - ALT3 ... that Rachel Skinner "fell into engineering completely by chance" before being named as one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering?
- Thank you, like ALT3 especially, but will need sleep before looking at details. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 00:24, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Fine, all good. (Sorry, after sleep came a broken line (no power at all at the hotel), and a vacation day.) I'd still add something like "the Canadian company" before WSP, or is it just me who doesn't know that it's not a scientific institution or what? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:54, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks Gerda Arendt. Good point about WSP, I have pre-faced it with a wording similar to what you proposed. Cheers - Dumelow (talk) 22:04, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
- I left a note on the talk page regarding her degrees and places of education. I think the article is lacking without this information. Yoninah (talk) 13:56, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks Gerda Arendt. Good point about WSP, I have pre-faced it with a wording similar to what you proposed. Cheers - Dumelow (talk) 22:04, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
