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{{helpme}} I spent hours and hours revising my Maybach Foundation draft, adding citations etc, and frequently hitting the save button, but it has reverted to its state of December 31st, 2008. I'm heartbroken having spent many, many hours on it. What happened to it?

Also my other page, intended to be a redirect page, because the foundation is commonly known by more than one name, was deleted by someone. I thought my talk page was an appropriate place to experiment, why would someone delete one my pages I was working on, if it was under my talk pages and not published to the wikipedia?

Did you work on User:A Friendly Nerd/maybach foundation as well as User:A Friendly Nerd/draftMaybach Foundation? As for the deletion of the redirect, you can't have a redirect to a non-existent page; these will be deleted as worthless. Bencherlite^Talk 00:14, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh thank you! I guess I got confused somehow. What a relief! And re: the redirect page, I thought that anything I put on my talk page was immune to the regular rules while I work on it. I won't make a redirect until I am done with the page and ready to post it. Thanks so much for your help A Friendly Nerd (talk)

No problem. You can always see what you've been doing by clicking on "my contributions" in the top right-hand corner of your screen. You can see someone else's contributions, incidentally, by clicking on the "User contributions" link in the toolbox on the left-hand side of the page when you're in somebody's userspace. Bencherlite^Talk 08:22, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

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A Friendly Nerd/Maybach Foundation oops

Do you still need A Friendly Nerd/Maybach Foundation oops? It's in the article space and I think it's an inferior copy of User:A Friendly Nerd/maybach foundation. If you don't need it any more, please tag it with {{db-author}}. Thanks, (EhJJ)^TALK 02:00, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry about the accidental move to Mayback Foundation. I have moved the page now to Maybach Foundation. I have also replied to your questions at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions#please help me get this image publishable?. If you don't object, I'd like to upload the better quality, official logo from the official website and use that in the article. As a result, the image you uploaded would be deleted. Feel free to take the initiative on this. Otherwise, I'll do it tomorrow. All the best, (EhJJ)^TALK 02:53, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you I have done as you asked. Pardon my rookie mistakes. I can't believe how many I seem to be making! I would be very grateful if you would use that better image. I had gotten the impression that wasn't kosher, and I will learn a lot by watching how you do that. A Friendly Nerd (talk) 04:14, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

No worries, I made many when I started and even today I've had a bit of a "rough patch" (i.e. moving your work to a misspelled article name). I'll upload it to File:Maybach Foundation logo.png and include the necessary notices. You had it just about right, but using copyrighted material on Wikipedia can be tricky and needs very clear wording (hence, finding the right template helps very much). (EhJJ)^TALK 05:00, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

While I have your attention, I wonder if I could enlist your aid in one other task I'm having difficulty learning. I learned that the Foundation has a couple of other names it is commonly known by. One is the official but rarely used name "The Wilhem and Karl Maybach Foundation". The other is the former name that they later changed, "Maybach Family Foundation". I would think redirects would be good from those names to the article I created, but after searching the help pages, I found myself very uncertain on how that is done. Can you point me to instructions for that? Thank you for your time.

A Friendly Nerd (talk) 05:32, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't see this earlier. You need to create new pages and enter the following: #REDIRECT [[Maybach Foundation]] . That should create a page that redirects to the Mayback Foundation article. Try doing it here: Maybach Family Foundation. If it works, you need to make your way to alternate names and do the same thing. Good luck and be bold. (EhJJ)^TALK 04:55, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

May I continue to ask you a couple of questions in this venue? And thank you very much for your help on those other issues. A Friendly Nerd (talk) 21:43, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

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