User talk:Zarita

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Please read WP:AUTO. The recommendation is always: wait until someone else writes a bio about you. Even the title was arrogant: OK it is an unusual surname but do you think you are the only Swanepoel who will ever qualify for Wikipedia? -- RHaworth 09:56, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Real estate trends
Good intro expansion. I hope it will ead to some worthwhile additions. Viva-Verdi 02:35, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

September 2007
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February 2009
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To Flowanda

If the material is not suitable for Wikipedia, I apologize. Here is however my thinking for adding it in the first place. I do not see the whitepapers by Stefan Swanepoel as advertising or soapboxing. The seven whitepapers he penned include extensive research and each whitepaper is some 24 pages in length. The whitepapers were not sold but provided free to the industry and is some of the most detailed research available regarding each respective topic. Residential real estate is renowned for a shortage of good information and no-one has tried to improve this more by authoring more whitepapers and reports on change and trends in the real estate industry than Mr. Swanepoel.

Thank you for offering me the opportuity to discuss this with you.

Zarita (talk) 02:36, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

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Zarita (talk) 19:21, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi Flowanda

Thank you for your edits and help. In response to your question about the multiple "best sellers" reference. The term "best seller" is widely used in a loose manner (as I am sure you have seen). Few authors can actually prove that the book made it to a creditable "best seller" list such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal or USA Today.

As there is no one "best seller" list and therefore the highly regarded NYT and WSJ have become the premier authorities in determining what is a best seller and is more sought-after than say Amazon.com. As the newspapers use different algorithms in determining what defines a "best seller" a book can appear on one list and not another. Only a small handful of books actually get listed by all the leading newspapers.

I was trying to provide the validation that Surviving Your Serengeti by Swanepoel was indeed ranked as a best seller by all the leading newspapers.
 * Just trying to keep the article this side of being deleted if it ever came to that, but you can review WP:NOTABILITY and WP:NBOOK for yourself, as well as looking at other articles on similar books to see how they are written. Flowanda | Talk 02:54, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

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