Thread:Abincyp/@comment-5888168-20160425224259/@comment-166269-20160425233319

Some comments:
 * In order for this to be effective, both admin and bureaucrat rights must be removed, not just the bureaucrat rights.
 * I understand your concern about Syal adopting the Mirrors Edge wiki without any evidence of them being involved in the wider ME fandom, but this isn't actually part of the problem; it is perfectly normal for any given part of a fan community to have members that are not present in any other part of that community, and this is seen quite widely on wikis, which tend to attract a different sort of person than e.g. forums do. (As an example of my point, I am also not involved in the wider Mirrors Edge community, other than as a sometime reader/viewer and a fan of the game.)

All that being said, there are definite issues with Syal here, which you did touch on above. Most of them boil down to an attitude Syal seems to have that their way is the only correct way for a wiki to work, and they are willing to block editors who don't agree with that rather than engaging in discussion to attempt to build consensus. For example, Abin had been working extensively to improve the wiki, including by introducing formatting to articles that is widely considered standard (e.g. bolding the article name/subject the first time it's mentioned in the article text), until Syal blocked him with the claim that he had been removing information from articles. In my case, I attempted to create a number of redirects to aid in navigation after Syal went through and deleted almost all redirects on the wiki, only for those redirects to also be deleted, and - several months after my last edit - Syal blocked me for "creating unneeded redirects". Both of us had attempted to discuss our actions and Syal's responses with Syal, as can be seen from their talk page, only to get non-answers or silence.

Based on this, I am absolutely in support of Syal's rights being stripped and someone else (based on his activity, I would suggest Abin) being promoted in their place, regardless of whether I'm unblocked in the process (while I have edited the wiki, I am already active in a number of other places and never had any real intention of devoting a lot of time there, but it's still very demoralizing to see my efforts to help improve a wiki so summarily undone and for me to be blocked as a reward for my work).