Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-99.199.186.18-20160818023110/@comment-8-20160818201458

I'll jump in as there was a threat to get staff involved...

Who to block and why is generally up to the admin dealing with the issue. On older wikis, there are often written guidelines for admins, but smaller wikis may not need to have things that firm - the admins' judgement is enough.

Staff will not interfere with your decision to block (or not) even if you are blocking for a bad reason. As far as we are concerned, admins have to decide for themselves what the best thing to do is.

Of course, there is a way a bad admin can be removed by the rest of the community. Basically, if there is a demotion discussion among the active contributors to the wiki, then an admin can be removed. So admins are autonomous, but answerable to the community.

In this particular case, it sounds as though you have tried discussion, and may need to go further. I would suggest a final try at reasoning with them, including letting them know you will block if they continue to disrupt the wiki, and then blocking if that doesn't work.