Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-20302766-20130113125453/@comment-188432-20130114012059

Well, it's a slightly tricky situation at w:c:sherlock, just because you've got an admin who's edited there in the last 60 days — barely — and because you have a tiny bit of user editing going on. Also, both Agent Swipe and NancyDrew4ever have logged onto Wikia today. So they're active users of the service.

Your only honourable course of action is to contact them directly, explain the plan you have of porting material from bbc-sherlock to sherlock, and hope that they'll just make you an admin. I think that's likely, just because we have to assume that any reasonable admin would love to see his or her content massively increase within a matter of hours.

Even though you really can't avail yourself of the Wikia Staff adoption process, it still may be prudent to edit at sherlock until 25 January before contacting either of the two sherlock bureaucrats. If you edit at sherlock for every day until then, you will have passed all the Wikia requirements for adoption. And if the two bureaucrats don't answer you by 2 February 2013, you can then file a formal adoption request, having properly jumped through the adoption description required hoops.

As for stepping on toes, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Even if this thing goes all the way to the adoption process, the current admin would stay in place. Your name simply gets added to theirs on w:c:sherlock:Special:ListAdmins. You don't have an ability to demote another bureaucrat. You'd just co-exist.

That's why it's best in a case where the bureaucrats are currently active elsewhere on Wikia, to just talk to the existing bureaucrats and advance a case for why you need to be one too. You'll stand a much better chance of all being on the same page, and no one's toes will be stepped on. In this case, I'd say you have a strong argument for being an admin because a) you already are one on a related wiki and b) you want to import material using Special:import, which requires admin status. Again, reasonable admin should see the value of what you bring to the table, and see your adminship as the "price of the merger".