Talk:Dorabella Cipher

message: There were only seven entries to the cipher competition and none of them were judged to have solved Dorabella.  The Elgar Society put an article of mine on their website for a year but did not print it in the Society Journal.
The outline article is on my page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stevebkk
I will edit it and reinsert graphics.  Should it be part of the Dorabella Cipher article or a separate entry?
--Steve (talk) 02:08, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I vote for part of the article. separate section, encyclopedic tone, ... ww (talk) 04:30, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Elgar Society Competition 2007/08 

message: Who is Javier Atance?  There is no reference.  The implication is that he sent a competition entry to the Elgar Society.  If the Dorabella note represents a score, can we see it?
--Steve (talk) 22:34, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Javier Atance 

message: Someone using IP address 190.155.221.132 (IP tracing suggests a source at sea) chose to remove the tone annotation without giving a reason. It's also their sole contribution and that smacks of vandalism. I have reverted the edit; if the user concerned feels they made a legitimate edit, perhaps they would be kind enough to properly identify themselves and explain why the annotation should not remain. AncientBrit (talk) 04:37, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible vandalism reverted 

message: Tim Roberts claimed to have cracked Dorabella in September 2009, although his solution is disputed.  The solution can be found here and some discussion here.   Can someone with more expertise in this area indicate whether this is worth including in the article?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Helenabella (talk • contribs) 08:36, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tim Roberts' Solution 

message: The last paragraph of the article's 'Background' section reads odd to me.
"Could there be a connection between Dorabella and the mystery of the Enigma Variation's original theme? Well, yes, there could, possibly, but this is an area in which there are many possibilities and few certainties."
I did a google search on those two sentences but didn't find anything. Still it doesn't seem like something you'd read in a pseudo encyclopedia. Thoughts? tildetildetildetilde  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.164.69.63 (talk) 05:33, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible plagiarism? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The description of this solution makes no sense. Can somebody post a proper description, please? Unfortunately the reference cited is behind a paywall.147.147.24.76 (talk) 12:16, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wayne Packwood Solution 

message: Relying on Elgar's surviving notebook key, the Dorabella Cipher's curlicue symbols generate what appears to be a random series of letters. On closer inspection, however, the cleartext was found to contain seven discrete Spanish words. The first Spanish word peca is encoded by symbols 2-5 in row one. Peca means freckle and spot. That is a remarkable find as there is a conspicuous spot above the sixth symbol in row three that marks the text sequence "E D U", Elgar's pseudonym. His wife Alice coined that pet name based on the first three letters of the German translation of Edward as Eduard. The title of Elgar's musical self-portrait in the Enigma Variations is "E. D. U." Elgar's signature is curiously absent from his cryptic missive to Miss Penny, and now the reason why is now known as it is incorporated within his cipher. It is astonishing that this feature was not spotted sooner. Robert W. Padgett (talk) 00:49, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish terms in the Dorabella Cipher's cleartext