Template:Did you know nominations/Finniston Report


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The result was: promoted by Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 03:15, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Finniston Report

 * ... that in 1980 the British government ignored the recommendation of the Finniston Report to introduce statutory regulation of the engineering profession? "The Government of the day decided against legislation to create a statutory body"
 * ALT1:... that the 1980 Finniston Report found that the United Kingdom was the only country found where the state was not involved in the registration of engineers? "Finniston found that in all the countries visited the mechanism for registering engineers involved the state"
 * ALT2:... that the 1980 Finniston Report recommended the introduction of engineer's degrees to the United Kingdom? "It recommended the introduction of the BEng and MEng degrees"
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Publius Cornelius Dolabella (consul 10)

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 14:31, 1 June 2018 (UTC).


 * New and long enough. Earwig detects no copyvios.  QPQ done.  I have some issues with the hooks.  ALT0: "Ignored" implies that there was no response whatsoever, and is not the same as deciding against adopting the recommendations.  ALT1: This hook needs to be clearer that only certain specific countries were studied; I doubt that all other nations in the world had state licensure.  ALT2 technically checks out but could use some context; did the BEng and MEng degrees not exist at all in the UK at that time?  Were they introduced at some later time?  Also, I'm sure that Engineer's degree is the correct wikilink; that usually refers to a degree intermediate between a master's and a doctorate.  Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 00:43, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Antony-22, thanks for your review. Looking at the hooks perhaps taking a different track, might be more interesting:
 * ALT3: ... that the Finniston Report led to the creation of the Women into Science and Engineering Campaign? "The campaign sprang from the recommendations of the 1980 Finniston Report"
 * ALT4: ... that the 1980 Finniston Report found only 56% of British people considered engineering a good career for a woman? adding together the percentages for very good (25%) and good (31%) from table 8.1 - Dumelow (talk) 09:01, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approving ALT3 but not approving ALT4 which needs to add the words "and science" to be accurate. Relying on Antony-22 for the rest of the review. Good to go with ALT3. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:08, 28 June 2018 (UTC)