User:Peter Isotalo

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My name is Peter Isotalo. I was born in Moscow in 1980 and currently live in Solna, a suburb of Stockholm. I have a bachelor's degree with a major in history. I've also studied Chinese, linguistics and ethnology, all at Stockholm University (SU). I have the equivalent of a Swedish master's degree in archival science from SU and I'm currently working there as an archivist, primarily with the archives of the Stockholm Institute of Education. I mostly work on history-related articles, but have ventured into other topics within the humanities.

I have been active on Wikipedia since February of 2005.

Major contributions

primary contributor

• Swedish language
  • Standard Swedish
  • Swedish phonology
  • Swedish Language Council
• Reuben Sturman
• Scandinavism (built up from a mere redirect to Scandinavia)
• medieval cuisine
  • regional cuisines of medieval Europe
  • entremet
  • subtlety
  • potage
  • sop
  • whitedish (later merged with blancmange)
• Aztec cuisine
• early modern European cuisine
• Ancient Egyptian cuisine
• Andean cuisine
• Valrhona
• horse artillery
• Vasa (ship)
• smoking
• Diderot Effect
• Anna Maria Rückerschöld
• Bartmann jug
• Dalarö wreck
• Dirty Diaries
• Mary Rose
• Anthony Roll
• Mary Rose Trust
• Kronan (ship)
• battle of Öland
• udema, pojama, hemmema, turuma
• Archipelago Fleet
• Fredrik Henrik af Chapman
• galley

Minor contributions

meaningful amounts of new info added

• avocado
• breast
• Cuisine of the Thirteen Colonies
• cookbook
• Dansk Sprognævn
• Danish language
• Finland-Swedish
• Great Zimbabwe
• fast food
• gunboat
• history of beer
• Let the Right One In (film)
• Norn language
• self-propelled artillery
• Scanian (linguistics)
• Skåneland
• spices
• Standard Mandarin
• trireme
• Vasa Museum
• voiceless palatal-velar fricative
• Älvsnabben

Copyediting, reviewing and advising

• Battle of Oliwa
• Battle of Shiloh
• Bengali language
• Chinese language
• Dano-Swedish War (1658–1660)
• Domenico Selvo
• Estonian language
• Dutch language
• Elfdalian
• French cuisine
• cyberpunk
• Habsburg Spain
• harpsichord
• history of Africa
• Icelandic language
• Italian cuisine
• John Ajvide Lindqvist
• Joseph Goebbels
• Korean temple cuisine
• Korean cuisine
• Nafaanra
• Nahuatl
• Norwegian language
• Portuguese language
• Richard O'Connor
• Romanian language
• Sauvignon blanc
• Slovene language
• Turkish language

Articles started

• Allmänna idrottsklubben
• Ancient Egyptian cuisine
• Anna Maria Rückerschöld
• Aztec cuisine
• Bananas!*
• Bartmann jug
• beakhead
• Beate Uhse AG
• Bermeja
• Berth Milton, Jr.
• Berth Milton, Sr.
• Bruce Haack
• Caryocar amygdaliferum
• Dalarö wreck
• Dagens Industri
• Diderot Effect
• Dirty Diaries
• early modern European cuisine
• entremet
• Handling the Undead
• Hans Basbøll
• Hans Villius
• hemmema
• Ida Gerhardt
• Andean cuisine
• Lennart Hyland
• Mary Rose Museum
• Mary Rose Trust
• medieval cuisine
• New Swedish
• Nouvelle Vague (band)
• Ordbog over det danske Sprog
• Obol Investment
• Peter Ladefoged
• Pimps Up, Ho's Down
• quarter gallery
• regional cuisines of medieval Europe
• Sci-Fi Skane
• Shona people
• Snook (band)
• Stockholm Public Library
• Stålhammar
• subtlety
• Taba language
• Tukang Besi language
• turuma
• udema
• UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database
• Valrhona
• Västgötalagen
• Waste Land (film) (first meaningful contributions)
• Wilhelm Burgdorf
• Älvsnabben

Did you know...

• ... that Valrhona, a company based in the small town of Tain l'Hermitage in the Rhône Valley in France, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-quality chocolate? (27 September 2005)

• ... that the most common food in medieval cuisine for all social classes was bread and that almond milk and verjuice were among the most common ingredients? (September 18 2006)
• ... that a subtlety was an elaborate medieval dish that was supposed to entertain and surprise diners with extravagant decorations or by imitating other types of food? (October 2 2006)
• ... that many regional cuisines of medieval Europe were heavily influenced by Arab cuisine through contact with Muslim Iberia and Sicily? (March 7 2007)
• ... that maize was the staple of Aztec cuisine, and that maguey worms, spirulina and corn smut were popular Aztec foods? (April 30 2007)
• ... that chocolate was the first non-alcoholic social beverage in early modern European cuisine? (May 2 2007)
• ... that bread and beer were the two basic staples of Ancient Egyptian cuisine? (May 21 2007)
• ... that pachamanca is a Peruvian dish which has its origins in Inca cuisine? (June 8 2007)

• ... that smoking has a history that dates back at least 5,000 years and is one of the most widely practiced recreational activities in the world? (July 20 2007)
• ... that Anna Maria Rückerschöld was an early Swedish cookbook author who also argued that middle class women should be entitled to an education in household matters? (April 12 2009)
• ... that the cargo of the Dalarö wreck, sunk in the Baltic Sea, included coal and several Bartmann jugs? (September 3 2009)
• ... that Dirty Diaries is a collection of Swedish pornographic feminist short films that sparked controversy because it was financed with tax money? (September 27 2009)

• ... that 58 ships (one pictured) of the 16th-century navy of Henry VIII of England were illustrated in the Anthony Roll? (January 4 2010)

• ... that the Mary Rose was a Tudor period warship that sank during the Battle of the Solent in 1545 and was salvaged (pictured) by maritime archaeologists 377 years later? (January 4 2010)
• ... that the Mary Rose Trust, the charitable trust that salvaged the Mary Rose in 1982, played an important part in preserving historical shipwrecks in the UK from exploitation? (January 13 2010)

• ... ... that the warship Kronan was one of the largest ships in the world when she foundered and exploded with the loss of 800 men at the battle of Öland (pictured) in 1676? (June 1 2010)

• ... that the hemmema (pictured), turuma, pojama and udema, four types of warships designed by naval architect Fredrik Henrik af Chapman for the Swedish archipelago fleet in the 18th century, were named after provinces in Finland? (November 8 2010)

Appreciation

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  A Rosetta Barnstar for stepping up to the plate and translating a Swedish article on Ben oil so that the material could be added to the English WP article. Waitak 13:35, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[1]

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  I, MacGyverMagic, hereby award you with an Epic Barnstar for your work on Medieval cuisine - a truly marvellous article which will no doubt be featured on Did You Know pretty soon. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:24, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[2]

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  A nice cookie for you becuase I could not find a dish of eels in hypocras sauce. In appreciation of your work on Medieval cuisine, Tom Harrison ^Talk 01:59, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[3]

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  This barnstar is awarded for notifying a steward about Robdurbar's vandalism and blatant misuse of his administrator tools, stopping a vandal with sysop tools from doing further damage. Jesse Viviano 03:03, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[4]

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  I, User:Quadell, award you this Golden Wiki for your outstanding contributions to the smoking article. Great job! We need more writers like you![5]

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  I, Durova, am pleased to award the imperial triple crown jewels to Peter Isotalo in recognition of his outstanding contributions to mainspace articles. Durova^Charge! 15:28, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[6]

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  Peter, for all the work you have done on Medieval cuisine, this gourmand/history lover would be most pleased if you accept this barnstar. Cheers and thanks for the great article. L0b0t (talk) 16:20, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[7]

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  For heroic work on the Mary Rose article and particularly for getting those fantastic photos released by the Mary Rose Trust, together with coverage in the press. Brilliant work! Simon Burchell (talk) 00:01, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[8]

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  You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Medieval cuisine. TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:22, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[9]

Quotes

It is the nature of man to build the most complicated cage of rules and regulations in which to trap himself, and then, with equal ingenuity and zest, to bend his brain to the problem of wriggling triumphantly out again.

— Barbara Henisch, Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society

What the... That's like asking a flock of gulls about where to find something to eat!

— Swedish satirist Jan Berglin about the fact that Wikipedia is written by its own readers

Useful links

• Danish dialect samples at Statsbiblioteket
• Norwegian dialect samples - of limited value due to not being normal conversation
• University of Victoria IPA lab - plenty of sound samples
• Linguistic Discovery

Gallery

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  A an apple Danish from Vete-katten in Stockholm

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  Pölsa, an integral part of northern Swedish cuisine, the Scandinavian equivalent of haggis

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  Homemade vegetarian borscht

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  From my trip to Vancouver: scenic Deception Pass

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  A very photogenic tunnel at Frankfurt Airport

Sub-pages

• User:Peter Isotalo/arbetsordning - editing launchpad
• User:Peter Isotalo/projekt - current projects
• User:Peter Isotalo/litteratur - references
• User:Peter Isotalo/slask - sleepers, leftovers