User talk:Eugenevdm

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Speedy deletion nomination of Carel van der Merwe

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A tag has been placed on Carel van der Merwe, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Eugenevdm. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. PRAXIDICAE💕 13:52, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Praxidicae,

There is no conflict of interest here. If you would like to point out how I can improve the article to make it sound less promotional, I'm open to suggestions. Shall I remove the ISBN numbers? 156.155.238.44 (talk) 14:12, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

So the photo you uploaded stating own work by "Eugene Francois van der Merwe" in an article about "Carel van der Merwe" has absolutely no relation despite sharing the same last name and taking professional photos? How curious. PRAXIDICAE💕 14:17, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes indeed there is no relation. Van der Merwe is a common surname in South Africa, like like Smith is in England. See here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_Merwe

> Van der Merwe is a common Afrikaans surname, derived from the Dutch van der Merwen ("from the Merwede"). Eugenevdm (talk) 16:22, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

So how are you the copyright holder of that professional photo of the subject in question? PRAXIDICAE💕 16:25, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Praxidicae,

Thank for the message and question about the photo.

On 9 April 2022 I went to a book introduction of Willem Pretoriuis's "iewers tussen êrens" at Die Bôrdienghuis in Wellington, South Africa.

Carel van der Merwe was one of the contributers of this book. I introduced myself to Carel and informed him that I was a fan of both his books Nasleep and Gelfwolf. I also informed him also that I had seen his Afrikaans Wiki entry and that felt is was severely outdated in light of his new works. I told him that I could contribute and requested a photo.

@Praxidicae, I'm struggling to understand why you are challenging me on this article. Apart from the photo, are there other bothersome items in the article that you don't like and feel is promotional?

As you have rightly mentioned, this is my first article, and if the way I uploaded the photo is problematic then could you perhaps guide me as to how I can re-upload it? Eugenevdm (talk) 22:57, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]