Template:Did you know nominations/Roger Norman Sainsbury
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:19, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
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Roger Norman Sainsbury
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The Natwest Tower
... that in 2001 Roger Norman Sainsbury became the first former president of the Institution of Civil Engineers to resign their membership since its founding in 1818?"Roger Sainsbury this week became the first past president to resign his membership in the Institution of Civil Engineers" (New Civil Engineer) "In 1818 a small group of young engineers met in a London coffee shop and founded the Institution of Civil Engineers" (Institution of Civil Engineers)- ALT1:... that Roger Norman Sainsbury jointly won the Construction News "man of the year" award in 1979 for his work on the Natwest Tower (pictured)? "he became project engineer, and later project director, on the NatWest Tower in the City of London. At the end of that project - for which he and a colleague jointly won the 1979 Construction News Man of the Year Award" (Construction News)
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 15:37, 22 November 2018 (UTC).
Interesting life of a man with principles, on good sources, no copyvio obvious. The image is licensed, just a bit misleading, as one might assume he designed it. I don't like the original hook because without giving at least a hint at the reason, it sounds negative. I also don't believe we need to tell the year of founding of the ICE. Feel free to play with it in an ALT2. If you do, don't use former, because he was the president when he resigned, no? - Instead of a qpq, you gave us the image ;) - The image needs to be in the article. I don't think we need "professor" in the navbox. You can imagine the last question: infobox? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:03, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks Gerda Arendt . I must have been a bit asleep when I wrote this nom, the QPQ is at: Template:Did you know nominations/Leonard Hall (socialist). He was actually a former president when he resigned, he held office 1998-1999 and resigned in 2001. He was the first former president to resign membership (no sitting president has ever resigned). Happy for ALT1 to run anyway. I have added an infobox and the image. Happy for "as project director of" to be added to ALT1 if desired for clarity - Dumelow (talk) 15:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
fine, thank you --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:05, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks Gerda Arendt . I must have been a bit asleep when I wrote this nom, the QPQ is at: Template:Did you know nominations/Leonard Hall (socialist). He was actually a former president when he resigned, he held office 1998-1999 and resigned in 2001. He was the first former president to resign membership (no sitting president has ever resigned). Happy for ALT1 to run anyway. I have added an infobox and the image. Happy for "as project director of" to be added to ALT1 if desired for clarity - Dumelow (talk) 15:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
