User talk:Tbackstr
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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)
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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)