Talk:Ed McCann

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by TarnishedPath talk 02:08, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that Ed McCann chose a career in civil engineering after being dissuaded from other branches of engineering by their military applications?

• Source: "McCann was 17 when he first decided to become a civil engineer and it was mostly the reuslt of conversations and a desire to not kill anyone .... I was sent off to a careers fair and there were three engineering stalls that I was drawn to ... I went to the electrical engineering one first and asked what the man at the stall did and he told me that he was designing missile guidance systems. So next I went to the mechanical engineering stall and asked what the man there was working on and he said he designed tank propulsion system, I felt like a theme was developing. I then moved onto the civil engineer ... and I asked him about his work and he told me that he worked on water supply schemes, roads and railways" from: "The Social Engineer". New Civil Engineer. December 2021. pp. 21–22.

• • ALT1: ... that Ed McCann said that five secrets from Chris Hoy helped him to design a fast track for the London 2012 velodrome? Source: "McCann cites the success of designing a fast track cycling venue as the result of a conversation with cyclist Chris Hoy who explained the five tricks to designing a record-breaking velodrome" from the same source
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cocoa production in Samoa

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 943 past nominations.

Dumelow (talk) 18:19, 3 September 2025 (UTC).

• @Dumelow: Nice article I enjoyed reading it. I think the Olympic hook is interesting. No problem with approving this DYK. Moondragon21 (talk) 18:13, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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QPQ: Done.

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