New to splicing, am I supposed to back up loopie sling inner end with a stopper knot?

One locked brummel is all that is needed for polyester rope. Adding more would not make it stronger, only longer. Commercially made ones only use a single locked brummel.

Just bunch up the rope at the buried tail section to increase the diameter and pull out the tail.
 
I rarely if ever lock stitch or whip a locking brummel, Hence the locking part. That is why the bury is so short compared to straight bury. Straight bury is actually much stronger (nearly 100%) The photo's you put up and the ones some one else did as the "proper" example both have not been properly spliced or loaded. Both legs are not seated into place, and are unequal. The point of lockstiching/whipping is to avoid the splice slipping or coming apart under low or no loads... If either of you want to lock stitch locking brummeled splices, load em first. And I mean really load them close to SWL in a controlled environment, then sew em up
 
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I think the whipping is necessary to prevent the short tail from popping out from bending or being snagged. If the whipping was helping to hold the splice together your tensioning suggestion would be needed. Since it doesn't I don't see the need.
 
Lock stitching or whipping any splice before it's properly set is a very bad idea. If the splice legs are not equalized or if it's bunched the splice will seat its self when loaded, if it's stitched in this position it may never fully set relying on the stitching
 
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