Thread:Merrystar/@comment-2254585-20120823024615/@comment-11001-20120823043655

He last posted in the thread I linked on July 21st, which is about 1 month ago.

The bureaucrat has been active in the last 60 days, and the wiki is not eligible for adoption per the adoption guidelines.

4 of your 5 proposed admins are already admins, so the wiki is in no way lacking in available leadership or caretakers.

You are correct that I did not clearly state the details; the thread I linked was not a refusal to promote more admins but a refusal to re-promote one specific user to admin. Nobody appears to have asked him about anybody else, except in the vaguest of terms.

Adoption requests are for wikis with no admins at all; they are not a means to go around one you don't like. If the community as a whole wishes to demote the existing bureaucrat then that request has to be submitted to Special:Contact.