Forum:What do I do if my admin rights were wrongfully taken away?

So a while back, I created a wiki for a TV series and I fixed it up real nice. The show went on a hiatus for a while, so I stopped editing during that time. When I returned, someone had adopted the wiki. I didn't have a problem with this because I didn't mind having another admin. I continued to edit for several months and so did the person who adopted the wiki. Recently, I had a problem some of the images she was adding, so I nicely contacted her about it. She then got very angry and went on to say that this was her wiki and she could do whatever she wanted because she was the only admin. I informed her that I was the founder of the wiki and I still had admin privileges. She then went and took my admin privileges away for no reason at all. I believe that is an abuse of power and completely unfair. Is there anything I can do about this? 16:52, July 26, 2012 (UTC)

You should send this in to Special:Contact.  Love and Lust  17:08, July 26, 2012 (UTC)


 * If you're the founder of the wiki, you (might) still have bureaucrat rights (which only staff members can remove). If that's the case, you can simply promote yourself to admin again by going to Special:UserRights. For example, you would go to:

 http://EXAMPLE.wikia.com/wiki/Special:UserRights

^ replace EXAMPLE with the name of your wiki, when you get to the page, type in your name
 * That being said, it doesn't actually solve the problem of you two not getting along. You have to realize that if someone adopted the wiki, then it "belongs" to them as much as it belongs to you. Founders do not "own" wikis. A founder is nothing more than the person who created it. They do not have special ownership rights or anything of that sort.
 * I never said that I "owned" the wiki, I don't even care about that. But she basically doesn't want me to have any rights on there which isn't right. I came to her with a small issue a she completely blew it out of proportion. Also, I checked to see if I still have bureaucrat and I don't. I got this message: "You do not have permission to do that, for the following reason: Your account does not have permission to add or remove user rights." 17:30, July 26, 2012 (UTC)


 * I would send in a support request to Special:Contact then, as that's about your only option left. As a last resort, you could export all the pages on the wiki, create a new wiki, and copy everything over onto the new wiki where you have rights. Assuming your wiki doesn't have that many pages/editors, it's very feasible, although somewhat petty if you ask me. But it's been done before and it's certainly an option available to you.


 * All right, I just contacted wikia. And I really don't want to do that. The wiki has 72 pages and I feel like I should be able stay there and edit. It should have even gotten to this point. 17:43, July 26, 2012 (UTC)