Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-46227053-20200802131940/@comment-44498734-20200802140233

The adoption guidelines shouldn't be bendable. Normally you have to conform to every requirement, however I've seen cases in which some of the requirements were bend. As an example an user has an obvious unsourced block on a small wiki or they haven't edited every day for the last week but have been regularly active for years and have thousands/tens of thousands local edits. What you describe might also be the case because of a different staff member doing the one than the other one. I imagine some Staff members are easier on some stuff than other. However everything said above has just been my personal speculation/experience so if you want an real answer you should probably.