User:Mieliestronk

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 it longer. Mieliestronk (talk) 08:56, 23 December 2020 (UTC)