User blog comment:Mira Laime/How to Deal With a Bad Bureaucrat/@comment-5065259-20160224231223/@comment-26339491-20160225163514

You're probably referring to getting a highlight for your community? It's true, we only accept requests from someone who's an admin on that community, and we ask that your wikia has at least 200 pages. This is because we wouldn't want readers to get excited about a great new resource when they see your spotlight, and then click on it and realize there's hardly anything there so far.

It certainly is a bit of work to start or adopt another wikia on your favorite topic, when just couldn't work it out with the leadership of that topic's main community. Maybe that's a good thing: You wouldn't attempt it, and other editors wouldn't follow you to your new community, if the current bureaucrat wasn't really, really bad. You'll try your best first to make things better by looking for a compromise, and talking it out on the community - which, if it works, is better for everyone. Starting over because you just couldn't make it work with the current community('s leadership) should be a last resort.