Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-233706-20150624014033/@comment-5558012-20150627010741

Believe it! wrote:

452 wrote: And what good will any of that do if RIGHT NOW the Wikia staff are outright stating that they do not get involved in wiki affairs? Most of what has been written in this thread is true so I'm not going to waste my time on a long post. It is not reasonable for Staff to get involved in Admin disputes (for the reasons listed in other comments) unless it's a clear violation of TOU. What 452 said above is also very true. The community owns a wiki, not an Admin. A community has power over a disruptive Admin. Most don't act on it because they aren't familiar with that power. Staff will only get involved if the community as a majority acts on their power over a disruptive Admin by creating a civil blog/thread/etc listing the reasons and agreeing that the Admin should be demoted. (Edit: This was written assuming there is only a single Admin, they are also a Bureaucrat on the wiki, and/or the other Bureaucrats are inactive/unresponsive as many times the problem is when the Admin is the only one active on a wiki. Also, odds are they aren't going to remove their rights anyway if asked to after a vote. In instances with a larger group of users with Bureaucrat privileges, 452's quote a couple posts below is the way to go.) If the Admin removes the discussion, Staff will get involved.
 * Admins do not own the wikis. If the admin has made a statement that admins own the wiki, then politely ask Wikia Staff to inform him otherwise. (Or ask that question to Wikia Staff here on Community Central, and link the admin to the reply.)
 * Admins are not allowed to remove votes about them - if this has happened, report it to Wikia Staff.
 * Create a blog post named "Creating a set of rules for admins to follow", and suggest some sensible basic rules. When he deletes the blog post, inform Wikia Staff.