Thread:Merrystar/@comment-1414487-20140617114039/@comment-11001-20140619020125

Hello. when you "adopt" a wikia you get admin and bureaucrat rights. Roughly speaking the admin rights let you delete pages, rollback edits, block users, change the wikia appearance, etc. The bureaucrat rights allow you to grant other users admin rights as well, through the Special:UserRights page on your wikia. The linked page has a more complete description of the various rights.

The main thing to remember is that as bureaucrat you can grant admin and bureaucrat rights, but you can only remove admin. So be careful when you give out bureaucrat rights; the only thing they allow is for the user to appoint more admins so they are often not needed anyhow and you can't change your mind once you do it.

In terms of the contact with other users, we usually give them about a week to respond to messages before assuming that silence is consent.

I've given you admin and bureaucrat rights. You can promote Matticusmadness when/if he returns and is active again and you can promote the other user now if you wish to do so. Make sure you enter the user name correctly (I think it is "A Wiki Modifier", not "moderator") when you do so.

Good luck with the wikia!