User talk:Jenburton

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Welcome to Community Central, Jenburton!

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Enjoy! 18:28, July 26, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks! These are great tips. Jenburton 23:54, July 26, 2011 (UTC)

Welcome
Welcome Jen,Hope to see you round central often Tama 63  15:23, July 27, 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Tama63! If I'm not in chat, feel free to contact me here. Jenburton 16:23, July 27, 2011 (UTC)

Your Dog's Name
Never in my life have a heard a better one. Shotrocket6 (T/C/E) 22:30, August 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * I wish I could take credit for it, but he's a rescue and that's the name he came with. Though! It is a perfect name. Jen Burton (help forum | blog) 15:59, August 17, 2011 (UTC)

Blog comment
Hi Jen, I noticed in your blog post and comments you made a few pointed remarks about users on community central leaving "unhelpful comments", and how you, as staff, define such things (when there are no written policies on this wiki). I notice it led to Dopp threatening a block on Archduk3, which I thought was rather excessive, but each to their own. But mainly I made a comment which I feel may have got lost amongst the welcomes on that post, so I thought I'd post it here just to be doubly extra sure you see it. Many thanks.

"I often agree with what Archduk3 says, even if I don't agree in the way it is said. If necessary I can "translate" points I agree with into nicer respectful language, and I would hope they would be listened to just as much as had someone not put it forward "disrespectfully" in the first place. On the point about people repeating themselves - often arguments are ignored or not answered satisfactorily, so it becomes necessary to restate things. It seems that with big changes, staff respond a lot at the start, but then after a while stop even though sensible arguments continue to be made by users. Case in point - the category redlinks blog, or just recently the admin dashboard post seems to have stopped getting staff responses. I realise you have a lot to do and responding to everything is impossible, but it is disheartening to see staff answering comments about walruses, time travel and dopp's hair when there are so many outstanding comments about software changes."--Acer4666 23:32, August 16, 2011 (UTC)