Thread:Merrystar/@comment-1251315-20160806182725/@comment-1251315-20160810142325

Merrystar wrote: Honestly it sounds like you might be better off to just start your own wiki on the subject. I did, but then realised that it was too much effort to just copy everything I'd already done and improve it, given that I'd already poured a lot of effort into the other wiki first.

You didn't give a link, but if the bureaucrat is remaining active and responding, however negatively, to messages, then the wiki is not eligible for adoption. The adoption process cannot make judgements on the quality of the admin or it would be chaos. The wiki was the Impressions Games wiki. I had left it for a period (because I was blocked) and revived the City Building Games wiki (which I'd adopted earlier this year), but then I went back to the Impressions wiki and found one editor constantly messing up the pages and the crat doing nothing to stop it (even going as far as to make the suggestion that he would protect pages to stop me cleaning up against bad edits, which you can read here).

There isn't any vandalism as such on the wiki, but just one person making a whole load of bad edits / uploads that go against the standard of the other articles (at least said person no longer edits the wiki now, as they showed no interest in listening about how to actually edit a wiki properly), but getting the crat to actually delete all the stuff I've tagged is basically impossible, as he thinks that I'm trying to delete it because "I didn't add it", which is utter rubbish.

If the bureaucrat does mass protect pages to prevent others from editing, then please let us know at Special:Contact. But it sounds much more as if they will just ignore whatever you do as long as you don't bug them. Nope, they've pretty much said that they refuse to edit any aspect of the wiki, just because I'm able to edit the wiki and they don't seem to want to waste their time blocking me (which would be futile, because then the wiki would be permanently dead). He only comes to edit when someone posts on his own wall and makes no attempt to do anything else.

He also has no particular experience at all in running wiki's, and is fine just with a plain old wiki and no standards or policies written (which was going to be something I was going to add after a time, but that went nowhere because he was just being annoying about anything I did). Mostly everything on that wiki is down to me (infoboxes, templates, design, other coding stuff and formatting).