User blog comment:Mira Laime/How to Deal With a Bad Bureaucrat/@comment-1251315-20160225083337/@comment-26339491-20160225162108

We'd love to give more help to smaller wikias that don't have a strong and large user base that can effectively deal with problems like this. We know it's frustrating if you really care about a topic, and the wikia's leader doesn't let you do that in a decent way. However, we're proud of how well communities govern themselves, and if we started interfering in issues like this and started meddling with how wikias are run - where would it end?

Even if we wanted to act as a judge on local community issues, we couldn't, because we don't have the capacity. We'd need many more Wikia staff members to read the threads to understand what's going on with a wikia, before we could even make an informed decision. And this would take agency away from the users, and come down to patronizing them. That's not what we want to do.

If the community is very small, yes, there may be no way to "save" it from a bad bureaucrat. But then there also won't be much lost if you just move on to a different one on the same topic, or create your own. You can even import content from the wikia you left, so long as you include editing history, or make sure all original editors are credited properly, so you don't have to start from scratch!