Talk:John Herivel

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	John Herivel was one of the History good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones Date Process Result January 19, 2007 Good article nominee Listed November 19, 2007 Good article reassessment Delisted Current Status: Delisted good article

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Good job. Very clear and easy to follow, for a complicated subject. --Rbraunwa 15:15, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments and taking the time to review. — Matt Crypto 19:55, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notes

Polish used Herivel tip? See: Hinsley, British Intelligence in the Second World War, Part 2: Volume 3, Part 2, Page 954

Rejewski...named Knox's reduction method, Cillies and the `Herivel tip' as the methods used by the cryptanalysts at `Cadix' near Uzes, to reader some Enigma from October 1940 to November 1942. — Matt Crypto

[edit] GA sweep: article listed at Good article reassessment

This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. Whilst it is fairly well-referenced and meets many of the Good article criteria, the focus and coverage of the article is more problematic. A very large portion of the text (in fact the majority) is not about the article subject himself, and were this to be removed there would be scant content remaining. For this reason I have listed the article at Good article reassessment, where its status will be debated by GA reviewers and other interested editors. Please feel free to contribute to this process by commenting in the appropriate section on the GAR page. Regards, EyeSerene^TALK 13:21, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

As a result of a lengthy discussion at good article reassessment, it was decided by consensus to delist this article. It should be noted that several suggestions for meeting the good article criteria, including some as simple as renaming the article, were discussed and suggested. For a full archive of the dicussion in question, see Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Archive 33. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 07:17, 19 November 2007 (UTC)