Template:Did you know nominations/Margaret Reid (intelligence officer)

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The result was: rejected by reviewer, closed by BorgQueen talk 15:35, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Margaret Reid (intelligence officer)

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... that British Hero of the Holocaust Margaret Reid used John Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies to communicate with London? Source: ^[1]^[2]
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Created by Nedrutland (talk). Self-nominated at 07:40, 12 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Margaret Reid (intelligence officer); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

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

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing: - n
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: - Not done
Overall: Some "citation required" and "page needed" tags added for your convenience. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:34, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

References

^ Haarr, Geirr H. (2010). The Battle for Norway: April–June 1940. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-59114-051-1. All codebooks had been destroyed before the legation in Oslo was evacuated on the morning of 9 April. Margaret Reid used an emergency code based on the book Sesame and Lilies with letter codes referring to page, paragraph, sentence, word and letter in that particular book.
^ Kramish, Arnold (2019). The Griffin: The Greatest Untold Espionage Story of World War II. Houghton Mifflin. p. 23. ISBN 0-395-36318-7. The code used by Frank Foley and Margaret Reid during the retreat from Oslo was classic. An obscure book — in April 1940 the choice was Sesame and Lilies — is selected by the coders and decoders. Each letter of the message is described by three numbers that identify the page of the book, the line of that page and the position of the enciphered letter in that line.

@Nedrutland: Please address the concerns above. Z1720 (talk) 18:38, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Despite activity elsewhere and a ping, there has been no response to the above review and no QPQ has been given. The nominator has more than five nominations so a QPQ was indeed needed. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:36, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

[1] Haarr, Geirr H. (2010). The Battle for Norway: April–June 1940. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-59114-051-1. All codebooks had been destroyed before the legation in Oslo was evacuated on the morning of 9 April. Margaret Reid used an emergency code based on the book Sesame and Lilies with letter codes referring to page, paragraph, sentence, word and letter in that particular book.

[2] Kramish, Arnold (2019). The Griffin: The Greatest Untold Espionage Story of World War II. Houghton Mifflin. p. 23. ISBN 0-395-36318-7. The code used by Frank Foley and Margaret Reid during the retreat from Oslo was classic. An obscure book — in April 1940 the choice was Sesame and Lilies — is selected by the coders and decoders. Each letter of the message is described by three numbers that identify the page of the book, the line of that page and the position of the enciphered letter in that line.

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