Thread:Merrystar/@comment-4544033-20130529183443/@comment-11001-20130531043804

Hi.

If you change the rights of the admins they should receive a notification so while it would be polite to also leave them a note, it is not required.

Only staff can remove bureaucrat rights, so you would have to request that. If you remove their admin rights only, they can, if they wish to do so, restore the admin rights. So if your goal is simply to indicate they are not active, but you have no objection to them resuming the role should they return, simply removing the admin rights may suffice.

As a general rule we recommend leaving the existing admins even when they are inactive. They may return and be able to help the wiki again, and if they don't it does no harm. That said, some wikis create a policy about losing rights after a period of inactivity and if that is done we will help out with removing the bureaucrat rights as requested.