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Ehkä otin, ehkä en

album by Matti Nykänen

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ5348591 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ehkä otin, ehkä en (English: "Maybe I took v5[something], maybe I didn't") is the third studio album by Matti Nykänen. It was released in 2006 by Edel Records Finland. At nearly 38 minutes, it is Nykänen's longest studio album.

Track listing

Credits

Matti Nykänen – vocals

Jussi Niemi – guitar, vocals

Harri Rantanen – bass guitar

Anssi Nykänen – drums

Risto Närhi – hammond organ

Jukka Kautto – guitar

Mikko Saikkonen – saxophone

References

Ehkä otin, ehkä en at AllMusic. Retrieved 20:43, 18 December 2020 (UTC).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ehkä otin, ehkä en” as album by Matti Nykänen. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2006. The account is most persuasive where Ehkä, otin and ehkä can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as album by Matti Nykänen. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5348591. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 2020.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ehkä otin, ehkä en” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.