Sosayso

Hi Sosayso, welcome to Wikipedia. My current focus on Wikipedia is to improve biographies of people involved in WWII codebreaking; the likes of Turing, Flowers and Newman. I wondered if you fancied collaborating on getting one such particular article up to a decent state (e.g. Wikipedia:Good Articles level)? — Matt Crypto 17:12, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Matt, thanks for your message, the first I've received! Took me a while to understand how to reply. I'd be glad to help, but should confess that I'm not active in the fields of codebreaking or computer history, I just happen to know or have known some of the key people. So I could be of help, but would probably be unqualified to play an equal role. The Max Newman bio certainly interests me -- I have a family connection -- so I'd be glad to help improve it. The Turing bio, I notice, is already a Good Article. Let's continue to discuss. Now let's see, how do I sign this - or is it done automatically? Guess I'll just say Bye SoSaySo.

You can sign by typing out four squiggless in a row: ~~~~, and it gets replaced by your username and a datestamp; see this help page. Shall we settle on the Max Newman bio, then? There seems to be a wealth of good sources available. — Matt Crypto 11:26, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, let's go with MHAN. There seems to be a fairly standard set of section headings for these bios, so perhaps the first step is to agree on what they should be, presumably drawing on the bio in Copeland's book, and then make lists of the things to be included under each heading. Would you like to have a go at drawing up the section headings? I can then suggest things to be included, since I'm quite familiar with the main events - it's the technical stuff that I get stuck on. Sosayso 14:48, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I felt uninspired, so I just used the functional pre-WWII, WWII and post-WWII section divisions for now; hopefully we can come up with better names for them at some point. Based on William Newman's bio, I've also sketched some areas we'll likely want to cover; see Talk:Max Newman#Structure. — Matt Crypto 16:14, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

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How do you hold the copyright on this image?Genisock2 23:01, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Apologies, I got confused by the copyright form. I have received this by email on 14 April 2007 from Oliver Whitehead, son of Henry and grandson of Isobel Whitehead who probably took the picture: To Whom It May Concern, I agree to license this photograph under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 license. Sincerely, Oliver Whitehead.Sosayso 21:08, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

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