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Vexi Salmi

Hi Jafe, I wonder if you can clarify a couple of things for me related to the Finnish lyricist Vexi Salmi? We have a great portrait of Salmi that I'm going to nominate at WP:FPC, but I noticed that his article is a stub and unreferenced. Most of the references I can find are in Finnish. I've google translated them and the Finnish article, but I'm still having trouble making sense of it. Is he a record producer/does he own a record label? Is he still writing lyrics or was there a point at which he abandoned that career? Was he in a 2007 film/television programme called Rahvaan Ruuneperi (and is it worth mentioning)?

There's plenty of content for a 5x expansion and a DYK, but my lack of Finnish is going to cause me some trouble!

I'd appreciate your input, but it's okay if you're not interested, :) Thanks, Maedin\ 19:19, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi! It's a nice picture. Based on this source, Salmi worked as a producer as well as a lyricist, and also led his own record company, Levytuottajat Oy (and later Flamingo Music). However, both companies went bancrupt in 1996. As far as I can tell, he's still writing lyrics. The latest work of his the source mentions is writing lyrics for a 2002 album by Danny. The programme Vexi Salmi – rahvaan ruuneperi (which translates to something like "Vexi Salmi, the working man's Runeberg") was about him, but I'm not sure how much mention that warrants in the article. The sources don't seem to mention it.

You're right that there's plenty of information there for a detailed article. I might take a look later and add something. I'm actually working on translating the article of another important Finnish lyricist, Juha Vainio (which is featured on fiwiki, and just a stub here). I'm pretty busy offwiki right now, though, so I don't know when I'll finish that.

I think the FPC will pass with flying colours, considering that the picture is already featured on Commons. Keep up the good work! Jafeluv (talk) 22:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Jafe! The article looks great and I don't think I ever could have worked out that content from the translations. I'll add a bit more because it's about 700 characters short of 5x expansion, and then I'll nominate at DYK for us. So far the only hook which has suggested itself to me is that Salmi's friendship with Goodman started when they were both very young (4 and 3, according to this research paper). If you can think of something better, let me know, :) Here's the featured picture candidacy. Again, thank you for your help! Maedin\ 07:42, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for adding the pronunciation. A recording would be great, now that I think of it, but IPA is a good alternative, :) Maedin\ 09:56, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, a recording would be the best option. Malhonen has done a lot of those, but seems to be pretty inactive since 2008... I might give it a try once I get around to buying a microphone (I've had Skype for ages but still haven't gotten one). By the way, do you think the number of songs Salmi has written would make a good DYK hook? Something like "...that during his career from 1965 to present, Finnish lyricist Vexi Salmi (pictured) has written over four thousand song lyrics, over two thousand of which have been recorded?" (It'll need to be included in the article somewhere, of course). Jafeluv (talk) 10:18, 9 March 2010 (UTC)