Thread:Merrystar/@comment-1251315-20160806182725

Hi. I was going to post an adoption request, but then realised it would be rejected, but I have some questions to ask.

Under normal adoption guidelines, a wiki needs all admins to be "inactive" for 60 days. If there are active admins, the policy is to make a forum thread or blog post calling for someone to adopt the wiki. However, my issue is this. I wish to adopt a wiki which has an active crat, although: Given all the above points, and the fact he doesn't seem very interested in promoting a community (in the way Wikia wants wiki's to be promoted) and just wants to "hoarde" the wiki to himself, how would I go about actually trying to adopt such a wiki and turn it around to be a decent place that promotes the feeling of being a place where people are wanted and not pushed away for doing legitimate things?
 * 1) He makes one singular edit a month and pretty much does not maintain any aspect of the wiki (not deleting pages that have been tagged for months, not dealing with bad editors, trying to prevent experienced editors from editing by insinuating that he will "protect pages" (presumably indefinitely) for no reason, not actually caring to implement any policies etc).
 * 2) When I asked for rights, given the point above, he pretty much said that I should stop contacting him (despite me having only messaged him once in the last many months) and that he has zero intention of actually continuing to edit the wiki (just because I'm editing there).
 * 3) Given the fact that pretty much nobody else edits the wiki, making a thread for a public discussion would be pointless and probably result in me being blocked by the sole other editor (who is the crat that has made it clear he is not editing).

Thanks! 