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Virginia Fellows' dates

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According to [1] Virginia Fellows' dates are 1914-2005. Jackiespeel (talk) 10:53, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not RS, but it may well be correct and the 1910-2006 dates given were uncited. We don't need her dates, so I've deleted them. Paul B (talk) 13:36, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

VF is of insufficient notability for WP (but may be appropriate for specialist wikis).

How useful would the cipher wheel actually be for exploring substitution ciphers?

As for the theory - 'If it sounds too fiddly/impractical to carry through, it probably is too fiddly/impractical' (and given the plays were 'working documents in multiple forms', spotting-the-letters is going to produce more variants than a politician's campaign promises). Jackiespeel (talk) 14:04, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose it would be useful for aligning texts. To be honest, I am far from clear how his cipher is supposed to have worked. As I understand he identified special words and then looked for passages that contained the word. Nearby words and phrases were then combined into a message. Paul B (talk) 18:17, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Now much more quickly done by computers - and there are various obvious problems with the system (set phrases; homonyms; using 'words and phrases of the same intent'; multi-lingual crossovers; standardised forms etc). Jackiespeel (talk) 21:29, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]