User talk:Tbackstr

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Uh, after almost four years on Wikipedia I'm not exactly a newbie. Or are you implying that I should read those (again)? I've tried to be polite even when I've been sometimes confused. Well, perhapse I'll just assume that you've somehow taken me for somebody else. --Tbackstr 17:59, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)
Well I've never had anyone take it like that before. When scanning Recent Changes (for vandalism, newbie tests, that kind of thing) if I see someone who has a username that doesn't have a discussion page attached to it my automatic assumption is that they are fairly new and being the overly nice person that I am I drop in and leave them a message. And 99.9% of the time I am correct in assuming that person to be fairly new to wikipedia, and if you scan my user talk archive you'll see lots of people commenting on how helpful they found the message. Please don't read any offense into my actions, and please assume best intentions because I can assure you if I thought you were doing something wrong I would tell you: I don't believe in hiding behind snide remarks and sarcasm. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 13:58, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Main namespace cleanup

In an effort to clean up the main namespace, I've moved your old main namespace userpage to User:Tbackstr/old, as there's some edit history you might want to keep. Otherwise just delete it. --fvw* 12:28, 2004 Dec 31 (UTC)

[edit] Copied Work

Hey, dude. I just wanted to suggest, with response to your contributions to Levinson recursion, that you not copy academic papers verbatim -- even if they are your own.

The problem is that I had actually read the relevant part of your dissertation before I had stumbled across this Wikipedia article, and it left me with a ton of fuss and effort before I found out that the "plagiarized" dissertation material was, in fact, your own work from your dissertation. Also, in the future, please cite your sources. If you had at least cited your own dissertation in this regard, it would have meant a lot less hassle to find your dissertation again to verify whether or not the info was, in fact, copied verbatim; and if so, who copied it verbatim. It would have also been nice if you had included the cited sources from your dissertation, because, y'know, you had them right there at the time.

Thanks for hearing me out, Drostie 22:42, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the comment. I'll try not to do that again. --Tbackstr 08:02, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge discussion

Seeing as how you were involved w/ the Phoniatrics article, I thought you might be interested in the current merge discussion. Please join the discussion at Talk:Speech therapy.

-RJ1001 04:32, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
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