User talk:OS

Karl Schröter Achievements
Hi @OS, thanks for your timely intervention. I renamed the article as you suggested. I wonder if you could have a look this man Karl Schröter, a German logician and mathematics, who also worked at Pers Z S, if you have the time. The article has only a single ref at the moment, which details his work, i.e. what he is known for as regards mathematics. I detailed his work as relationship between semantic follow-up relations and syntactic derivability relations, possibly some kind of Logic, but I can't locate it within WP or indeed anywhere, indicating the translation is incorrect. Would it be possible for you to take a look at the single reference, read his bio, and determine if the above is accurate. His article is about 2/3rds down the PDF. Thanks. scope_creep (talk) 13:50, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi Scope creep, yes, I'll do it. Best wishes --OS (talk) 14:03, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I just read his bio. In the late 1930's he worked with the group of Heinrich Scholz on mathematical logic. In 1943 he wrote his habilitation thesis "Axiomatising of Frege's sentential calculus" (Axiomatisierung der Fregeschen Aussagenkalküle). Later on, after the war, he made important contributions concerning semantic consequences (semantische Folgerungsrelationen) and provability logic (syntaktische Ableitbarkeitsrelationen). In 1955 he founded, together with Günter Asser, the journal, which is since 1991 known as "Mathematical Logic Quarterly". Best wishes --OS (talk) 14:42, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks OS (talk). scope_creep (talk) 11:21, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank @OS, that is the phrases added to the article. Lol. At last its accurate now. scope_creep (talk) 16:53, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages
Hello, OS. When you changed Grazier from a redirect into a disambiguation page, you may not have been aware of WP:FIXDABLINKS, which says:
 * When creating disambiguation pages, fix all resulting mis-directed links.
 * Before moving an article to a qualified name (in order to create a disambiguation page at the base name, to move an existing disambiguation page to that name, or to redirect that name to a disambiguation page), click on What links here to find all of the incoming links. Repair all of those incoming links to use the new article name.

It would be a great help if you would check the other Wikipedia articles that contain links to "Grazier" and fix them to take readers to the correct article. Thanks. R'n'B (call me Russ) 22:36, 18 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Hello R'n'B, did it. Best wishes, --OS (talk) 12:52, 19 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Do not change longstanding redirects to disambiguation pages—particularly to WP:TWODABS pages, which are discouraged—without initiating a discussion, notifying WikiProject Disambiguation, and obtaining consensus. Also, do not edit Disambiguation pages with links/The Daily Disambig. This is a maintenance report. bd2412  T 13:18, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

November 2018
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Bletchley railway station, appears to have been inappropriate, and has been reverted. Please feel free to use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:41, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi John Maynard Friedman, could you please explain why the links I added ″appear to have been inappropriate″? Why did you revert it? Best wishes --OS (talk) 11:48, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
 * You didn't really think that the Euston that Bletchley is 45 miles northwest of is the one in Suffolk rather than the one in London, did you? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:51, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi John Maynard Friedman, sorry for that, but yes I did. So my links to Oxford and Bedford were correct, however my link to Euston was erroneous. Why don't we then re-insert the two links to Oxford and Bedford and correct my, as I now see, faulty for Euston (Suffolk) to Euston (railway station in London)? Do you allow me to correct it? Best wishes --OS (talk) 12:00, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Cock-up triumphs over conspiracy yet again! One to write off to experience for both of us.
 * Meanwhile I have done some cleanup on the article, including adding the three wlinks in the lead [which I ought to have put there in the first place when I added that text, I'm only perfect some of the time :-) ]. Feel free to develop it further. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:41, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

No, thanks, now you made it perfect indeed. Thank you for your excellent work. I apologize again for my mistake. I should have known better, because I traveled once from London-Euston to Bletchley. However, it's a long time ago. Best wishes --OS (talk) 12:51, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht
Hi I see you have altered the the above article, line 49. You state that Fritz Boetzel survived the war but you haven't provided any references to support that statement. I'll need to revert the article unless you can come up with some solid evidence. I would be great if there was enough information available for a Fritz Boetzel article. I have searched for ages looking for content on him. Do you happen to have any information on Hans Pietsch.  scope_creep Talk  17:31, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Scope creep, nice to meet you again. Many thanks for your comments. I'm mainly working on the German Wikipedia, and I just wanted to help the English version. As I currently wrote an article about the said Friedrich Boetzel for the German issue (and am also the principal author of the companion article Chiffrierabteilung des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht here), I made a quick search and canceled the wrong statement "Boetzel and Andrea were both executed in Summer 1944." Perhaps you might want to have a look at Friedrich Boetzel for some references? Hans Pietsch could be an interesting new topic for investigations. I'll keep you informed. Best wishes --OS (talk) 19:06, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Excellent. I will do a translation of that when your finished, if you don't happen to do it yourself. That's great. Hans Pietsch was director of the mathematical cryptography department at Inspectorate 7/VI, here article here General der Nachrichtenaufklärung. He was the most important person in that section within unit, which was enormous, and on which there was barely any mention of him after the war. Lots of name drops and linking names, seemed to be well known, but he was never captured by TICOM, hence no written bio. I needs to be built by hand. There is supposed to be a bio on him on Cryptography magazine from information I found out about from Frode Weierud, a researcher. An excellent researcher and good guy,  but that was two years ago. For me, Pietsch is the missing link, so any info please pass it along.   scope_creep Talk  19:47, 6 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi Scope creep, many thanks for your friendly comments. I do not intend to translate the article about Friedrich Boetzel, as my English is certainly not sufficient. For that a native speaker is needed. I just started my search about Hans Pietsch, and thought it might perhaps be a good idea to have a first look at Cryptologia. Big surprise, I spotted a brand new publication (published online precisely on the 75 anniversary of D-Day) containing a separate chapter about Hans Pietsch. Who do you think might be the author? Frode Weierud & Sandy Zabell (2019): German mathematicians and cryptology in WWII, Cryptologia, 10.1080/01611194.2019.1600076. Isn't that great? So we're now both able to learn something new, and perhaps transfer some of the newly learned stuff directly into two new articles, one for the English and the other for the German Wikipedia, cf. Hans Pietsch (Kryptologe). Best wishes --OS (talk) 04:54, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi A two for one offer. Truly such things only happen when there is a blue moon ;8-) I don't mind translating the Friedrich Boetzel article. I see there is inline footnotes, and that will make it easier. I notice he seemed to have followed Erich Hüttenhain and several others of that peer group from OKW/Chi and In 7/VI into the same unit after the war. It must have been a popular career path. Thanks for that link, I will take look, and much appreciated. Surprisingly I received a email from Frode Weierud this morning about Hans Pietsch so the stars must be aligned. I plan to create both article over the next two weeks and I plan to do a series on cryptographic historians as well. I'll give you a shout   when they're both done.   scope_creep Talk  09:35, 7 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi Scope creep, very good. Of course I'm willing to assist you if needed. By the way, the Hans Pietsch you linked here, is not the cryptologist Hans Pietsch (Kryptologe) (1907–1967) but a much younger Go player Hans Pietsch (Go-Spieler) (1968–2003). Best wishes --OS (talk) 12:15, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 * It just a marker for the moment.  scope_creep Talk  12:17, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Enigma message procedure
Hi Did I see you writing an article on Enigma possibly naval Enigma message procedures? I still have space to fill in B-Dienst here in the Naval Enigma section. The content I was planning to put into article was the message procedures. I have a Taylor and Francis document that covers all the Air, Army and Navy procedures, but it not complete. I can dig it out if you need it. It seemed at the time to be impossible to determine the full timeline of naval Enigma changes to security starting from 1936, I guess, I'm not sure, to 1945. There was large chunks of time missing, when I knew changes were made, but not what those changes were. There doesn't seem to be complete and definitive list anywhere. I do know that that it was Ludwig Stummel who suggested the net into many different keys, hence the large number available e.g. Triton key net. Any help is appreciated. I plan to contact Frode Weierud and any other person who is an expert on Naval Enigma. Thanks.  scope_creep Talk  13:47, 28 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi Scope Creep, nice to hear from you again. Yes, you're totally right. I had been writing an article for the German Wikipedia called “Enigma-Schlüsselprozedur” nearly one year ago. It includes both procedures of German army and air force as well as of the navy. The T&F paper might be that of Dirk Rijmenants? If you're going to contact Frode there's certainly nothing I could additionally contribute. Nevertheless please do not hesitate to contact me again if you feel I could be of any help for you. It's a pleasure for me if I can assist you. Best wishes --OS (talk) 14:25, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * That is the same paper by Dirk Rijmenants. I guess you used it in the article?  scope_creep Talk  15:12, 28 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi Scope Creep, to be honest, I do not remember exactly if I did so or not. However, as I just checked, Dirk Rijmenants' Cryptologia article is mentioned in the bibliography (Literatur) and also explicitely used as reference (Einzelnachweise). So my answer is a clear yes. Best wishes --OS (talk) 19:15, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

CQ DL moved to draftspace
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Funkamateur moved to draftspace
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Notice to Onel5969
Hi Onel5969,

Both articles, CQ DL and Funkamateur, were intended as a gift to the English Wikipedia. In case, this gift is not welcomed or assessed too poor, then I'd like to ask you to please delete the drafts. Best wishes --OS (talk) 07:35, 30 July 2021 (UTC)