Talk:Aimo Koivunen

Veracity of the story

From a scientific perspective, the story makes relatively little sense. Methamphetamine has a duration of action of 12-20 hours, give or take. A single megadose of methamphetamine might have a longer duration of action, but certainly not several days and most definitely not over a week, as the story claims. There are also no records I have ever seen that corroborate any objective details of this story.

In fact, the story carries the seeds of its own contradiction. One of the symptoms of methamphetamine overdose is delusional psychosis. I would be quite wary of taking anything a soldier who has just chugged 30 man-rations' worth of methamphetamine says at face value. Methamphetamine also alters time perception, so the week in the ditch could well have been an hour or two. Ari T. Benchaim (talk) 23:51, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

Oh, and a factoid: there's no such thing as Pervitin capsules. In fact, capsules were pretty uncommon in World War II. They're a product of being able to mold gelatin or other gastrodissolvable packaging materials into an adequate shape. Pervitin, like most solid medications of the age, was a compressed cylindrical shaped pill (you can see a photo of the commercials for Pervitin here, showing clearly the shape of the Pervitin pill). Ari T. Benchaim (talk) 00:01, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

Viral tweet

The article went viral on 1 April. Great work by the writers of this article. I wonder: how was this not a DYK? I can find a whole panoply of great hooks in this rather short article. Would be awesome with some expansion, though I don't read Finnish. Of particular interest would be his post-war travails. Eisfbnore ^(会話) 02:34, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

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Finland link

@Sullay If you are reverted, here is where you discuss to gain consensus for your edit. TylerBurden (talk) 16:04, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Cheers, Ty. So, on MOS:OVERLINK it clearly states that countries shouldn't be linked. For some reason TylerBurden has interpreted the rule to mean only countries with more than 5 million in population. I tried to ask him how does he personally interpret the rule himself, yet he's refused to answer so far. – Sullay (Let's talk about it) 16:14, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

@Sullay That is quite a blatant misrepresentation of what I said, but in Finland's case, it rather clearly is not an example of a major country that the vast majority of people would be familiar with. You seem to be ignoring the major examples part, and instead interpreting it as not a single country should be linked on articles. If so, are you going to go around and remove the hundreds of thousands of such examples from other articles as well? TylerBurden (talk) 16:18, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Well, several sources do consider it to be a major country. I still don't know what you personally consider to be a major country. I'm sincerely wondering why don't you want to open up and tell me. – Sullay (Let's talk about it) 16:23, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

A major country would be countries such as the countries mentioned in the MOS, countries you can safely assume people at least have some basic knowledge about like Japan, Brazil, the USA, Russia etc. Now if I may ask you a question in return, what is so horrible about having Finland linked that it warrants all this edit warring and passive aggressiveness? TylerBurden (talk) 16:33, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

How do you define which countries people have basic knowledge about? Also, I could ask you (almost) the same question: What is so horrible about having a country that the majority of people know unlinked, even if you didn't know of its existence? – Sullay (Let's talk about it) 17:56, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

This is down to common sense, would you disagree with me that the countries mentioned most people have basic knowledge about? So you are not going to answer my question then? People not familiar with Finland (the country this man was from, so directly related to the article) may be interested in reading more about it, I see no reason to remove quick and easy access to do so. TylerBurden (talk) 19:46, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Wrong date (or wrong something else)

"20 April 1944, along with several other Finnish soldiers. Three days into their mission, on 18 March". 2001:2020:343:AEED:88EE:5250:3FE6:9636 (talk) 20:06, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

Reference said 18 March, so changed it to 15 March to match the three day duration (if it is correct). TylerBurden (talk) 10:44, 31 July 2023 (UTC)