Thread:Merrystar/@comment-25163519-20160430222242/@comment-11001-20160504013009

You can adopt it to gain bureaucrat rights yourself from the looks of it - his last edit was a message to you made over 60 days ago. That would mean he couldn't demote you if you did argue about article edits, assuming that is your concern.

I agree it is not much fun to be the sole editor on a wiki. But as a sysop you are more than welcome to request a spotlight or do whatever other promotion you want on other forums etc. He is correct about that, and seems perfectly fine with you doing promotion.

The solution to wanting more editors is to try to do something about that, not to expect somebody else to solve the problem. I'm honestly not sure how demotion would help with this anyhow -- if he is demoted he is not going to return to promote the wiki, so you would still have to do that yourself.