User talk:Mieliestronk

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Once again, welcome!  James  Kendall   [talk] 23:10, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Ginger tincture use in South Africa
Hello. On my Talk page, you said: "In 2015 following text was deleted by you after I had added it to the article on ginger: This was not meant to be any advertisement for any product at all, but simply stating a fact about the South African way of life and how South Africans rely on ginger as a home remedy. Any South African would have understood the intention. How, then, should one go about in such instances, when a fact contributes to knowledge but is perceived to be an advertisement?"
 * Jamaica ginger as a tincture remains a firm favorite on the home-remedy market in South Africa, being used for all sorts of stomach problems and digestion ailments. The supplier in the Dutch medicines range has been a household name in the country for at least 160 years. ((( ref ))) Aspen Pharmacare commenting on Lennon Dutch Medicines: http://www.aspenpharma.com/aspen-south-africa/business-units-jvs/aspen-pharmacare/ ((( /ref )))
 * The Aspen Pharma link is not a WP:SECONDARY source. If you can find a reliable clinical organization or newspaper report on such use, that would be suitable for WP:RS. Otherwise, it's a personal observation, WP:OR. --Zefr (talk) 22:28, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:South African retired senior journalist Niel Hammann and wife Marlene.jpeg
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 * Hello, Whpq, I uploaded the home snapshot of Niel Hammann and his wife to be used in a short article on this remarkable retired South African journalist. He gave it to me because he is well aware of the intended article about him. Rough draft of it is on a personal user page of mine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mieliestronk/Niel_Hammann .... I am still figuring out how to do these things, and as an 80-year-old I am really battling to get it right. Help would be very much appreciated when it comes to actually publishing, which seems considerably more difficult than with articles on the Afrikaans Wikipedia (my home language is Afrikaans). Claiming copyright on simple home snapshots would also for us be rather odd. We hop around snapping each other with our mobile phones and their wonderful clones about hundred times a day. But I realize that is you way you prefer it in the US, and when in Rome one does what the Romans do. So I have asked Niel to send me an e-mail that he dedicted his picture to the public domain and to state that anyone could do with it what they want to, but if it is legally impossible ... and the rest. I will then mail his consent to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. Greetings from way down south of your borders. Mieliestronk (talk) 22:54, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
 * All images are by default copyrighted. The procedure for verifying permission is noted above in the message.  Essentially, the permission must be sent to email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. -- Whpq (talk) 01:13, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

When your user name is a business (even one you sold)
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Mieliestronk", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

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 * Quisqualis, Mieliestronk is an Afrikaans word meaning "cob of the corn", the thing that the old people used to make pipes from for smoking. Is is a therefore a generic thing. Many businesses are named after things, the world-famous Shell Oil Company for one, and to tell a South African that a mieliestronk is a business is laughable. I've been Mieliestronk at Wikipedia for years and years now, having this name, I can't even remember. Please, why are people at the helm so keen to antagonize even old members at the moment? It really makes one feel so unwelcome. I cannot understand it. Mieliestronk (talk) 08:23, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Quisqualis, Mieliestronk is an Afrikaans word meaning "cob of the corn", the thing that the old people used to make pipes from for smoking. Is is a therefore a generic thing. Many businesses are named after things, the world-famous Shell Oil Company for one, and to tell a South African that a mieliestronk is a business is laughable. I've been Mieliestronk at Wikipedia for years and years now, having this name, I can't even remember. Please, why are people at the helm so keen to antagonize even old members at the moment? It really makes one feel so unwelcome. I cannot understand it. Mieliestronk (talk) 08:23, 23 December 2020 (UTC)


 * I have also changed my user page to read as follows (I really hope that clears up the matter, Quisqualis):


 * I am G. (Ollie) Olwagen, a retired Afrikaans journalist residing in Pinelands, Western Cape, South Africa. I use the name Mieliestronk, not really because I was once the webmaster of an encyclopedic Afrikaans website by that name, but "mieliestronk" simply means "cob of the corn" in Afrikaans. Like those thingies the old-timers used to make their pipes from for smoking. Nothing more. Am not promoting the website by using the name (have no financial or any interest in the website as it still stands today, where it has not generated a cent for the new owners for nearly nine years; it just hangs around as a public service and is never updated anymore).


 * To tell the truth, I could have been using Mieliestronk as a username widely on the web long before I even started the website, I cannot exactly remember.


 * I really think it would not be fair to ask me to change the Mieliestronk username on Wikipedia, should I be asked to do so, just as it would not be fair to ask anybody not to be called Shell because of the existence of the world-famous Shell Oil Company.


 * I've been User:Mieliestronk on Wikipedia since at least 22 March 2012, most probably years earlier than that on another language platform. The MIELIE- part of my pseudonym orginated when I had a free fa-MILY (!) website c/o Microsoft way back in the olden days and the -STRONK was just added to make the name longer. Mielie means Corn and Stronk means Cob Mieliestronk (talk) 19:31, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Arnold S de Beer has been accepted
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