Thread:Merrystar/@comment-1726135-20140318042609/@comment-11001-20140319042400

Hi. Your message raises a rather tricky subject, and unfortunately there is not an easy answer for most of your questions.

For the purpose of adoption, we consider admins who have been inactive for 60 days or longer to be "inactive". Any wikia which has no active admins is eligible for adoption. So if you are contributing only sporadically throughout the year, then yes, anybody who is interested in the wikia can adopt it and gain admin rights there.

We do not demote the existing admins during the adoption practice, because, assuming they have not mis-used their rights, there is no real need to do so. Inactive admins may become active again and they can better help the wikia with their rights still in place. Or the admin might be somebody like you, who can help the wikia from time to time but not maintain it daily. Within reason, more admins who are truly dedicated to the wikia can only help it grow, and inactive admins do not cause any harm.

That said, each communitiy is allowed to determine appropriate criteria for admin status on their wikia, and there is quite a bit of variance from wikia to wikia. Many of our users feel that inactive users should not retain admin status, because admins should be maintaining and caring for the wikia on a regular basis. Obviously Yopopnot agrees with this view.

We will not intervene to over-rule him, because wikias do have the right to decide how they are going to be set up and run (within the terms of use), and as the community changes those rules might change as well. However I will leave him a message asking him to reconsider.

I'm sorry -- I do understand that real life can make it hard to work on a wikia daily. I suggest that your best course of action may be to do what he suggests and start editing (especially if you have only limited time to work on the wikia anyhow). Unless you had previously sysop-protected a lot of the content on the wikia or were planning a major re-design, you should be able to do quite a bit there without the admin rights.