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Metsäkustannus

Finnish forestry publishing company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ11882298 ↗
Source-derived summary

Metsäkustannus Oy is a Finnish company that is specialized to forests. Its main product is Metsälehti magazine. Circulation was 31 701 in 2014.

Also company publishes about 35 books per year.

History

Company is established 1982 but Metsälehti's historia starts from 1933 and its predecessor Tapio magazine, 1907. Company was established with the name Kustannusosakeyhtiö Metsälehti and name was changed to Metsäkustannus Oy in 2005.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Metsäkustannus” is finnish forestry publishing company. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Metsäkustannus, Finnish and forestry, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 1982, 1933, 1907—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Metsäkustannus, Finnish and forestry is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “finnish forestry publishing company” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11882298. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014, 1982, 1933 and 1907.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. 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.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Metsäkustannus”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Metsäkustannus primary sources, Metsäkustannus archive and Metsäkustannus research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Metsäkustannus”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Metsäkustannus” 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.