User talk:Tbackstr

Hey visitor! I'm kind of out of the loop, logging on to Wikipedia sparsely (altough using it frequently), so don't expect any rapid answers... :) --Tbackstr (talk) 08:42, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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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)

Main namespace cleanup[edit]

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)

Copied Work[edit]

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)[reply]

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

Merge discussion[edit]

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)[reply]

discrete hilbert transform[edit]

Hi, was just trying to prove the statement about discrete hilbert transforms given on the Hilbert_transform page. I noticed you originally added the discrete section, and so i was wondering if you could give me some reference? thank you very much! /Marmelad 17:56, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your user page[edit]

I found your old user page while checking out some old deleted contributions. I have history merged it, so that all edits are in one place. Hope you don't mind. Graham87 12:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article "Choir"[edit]

Hi T! What's up? I'm about to finish editing of the choir article from en: wikipedia, but I'm still a little bit dubious about some parts. I checked the contributors and found you as the starter of the article. Here is that question:

Although many contemporary churches have replaced the choir with singers, some churches have choirs which are backing vocalists in contrary to front line singers, which are in the Alto, Soprano and Tenor range for both Males and Females.

Does it mean except for "Solo" singers, there's a choir also? Are front line singers the "solos"? After the phrase "in contrary..." I don't get it completely. Would you help me on this please?

Lots of thanks; Princilll (talk) 17:54, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society[edit]

Dear Tbackstr,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more.

Best regards, Urhixidur (talk) 19:48, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	I gave it specifically for "basis directions along which matrix multiplication is equivalent to scalar multiplication". Miladkiaee (talk) 09:52, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]