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A fact from Alku and Alku Toinen appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 December 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Alku and Alku Toinen, built by Finnish immigrants, were the first nonprofit housing cooperatives in New York City?
Latest comment: 4 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
"Toinen", in Finnish, does not mean "two" as claimed in the article (perpetuating the mistake in the cited source), but rather "second" or "other". I don't want to just go ahead and correct that sentence, though, as it would then contradict the source. I also don't know which of the two meanings the creators had in mind, and therefore which one to correct it to, as both are possible in this context. Would a footnote be a good approach to deal with this — thoughts, anyone? DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:00, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for opening this thread. I think "second" would make more sense, as it is just the ordinal version of "two". I don't think it would contradict the source, so I have gone and changed it. epicgenius (talk) 15:30, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply
Okay, happy with that, thanks. The other reason why I wasn't sure how to handle this was that "other" would also have worked here, as in "the other place", but I doubt whoever came up with the names documented their reasoning, so let's leave it as it stands. DoubleGrazing (talk) 15:58, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply
