Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5553642-20150504231926/@comment-452-20150505174153

Earlier this year, I reported two wikis to Wikia Staff where the former admins had deleted all pages and left. I didn't ask for admin rights, I simply informed Wikia Staff that the admin had deleted all pages, because reporting it seemed like something a good person should do.

In one case, the Wikia Staff member seemed confused about what I was reporting, asking me why they should undelete the pages. This struck me as a strange question, as it seemed obvious to me that an admin shouldn't be allowed to simply delete all content like that - but apparently Wikia Staff simply don't see "deleting all content" as a problem. When I pointed out the policies against users deleting content when they decide to leave, they instead deleted the wiki.

In the second case, the Wikia Staff member struck up a conversation about it with the admin of the wiki, and mentioned that they generally do not allow users to delete content, and asked them what their intention was, and if they still wanted to continue editing the wiki, but there has been no activity on the wiki since, and all of the pages remain deleted to this day.
 * edit: They also rebuked me for asking for the pages to be undeleted.
 * For the record, after an entire year of the deleting admin not replying, Wikia Staff finally restored all of the deleted pages.

edit: That said, I do agree that it's best to ask Wikia Staff anyway.