Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27166622-20151104154150/@comment-1038387-20151104160140

The workings of accounts on a game company and a wiki are different.


 * You can't just wipe away old wiki-accounts. They have edits to them. In order to "open up" the name, those edits would need to be cleared, lest they be credited to the new user - which is problematic if it includes vandalism and/or blocks. Simply removing the edits tears up holes in the page history.
 * Moving the old account to individual new accounts - "Inactive Salix", for example - is cumbersome and puts a huge strain on the servers. It would mean a lot of downtime. Most editors would say it's not worth it.
 * Moving all inactive accounts' edits to a single new account ("Inactive Users"), aside from a similar server strain, goes against Wikia's license - as it no longer credits the correct creator with the content.

In short: you can't make old accounts disappear.