Thread:President Dubstep/@comment-4132630-20150509014750

Hello,

Thanks for contacting Wikia.

I'm sorry -- I understand how frustrating it can be to not have active admins. But it would be even more unacceptable if we promoted a user to bureaucrat on a wikia, simply because the existing admin had not been around for a few weeks. Real life does occasionally make it hard for people to be online, and the inactivitiy period is an effort to respect that.

We do have a standard procedure for dealing with wikias that have minimally active admins (one or two edits over a period of many months) such as in the case of Harvey Beaks; had the previous requestor been active himself, we would have offered it.

The bureaucrat, DJSponge, has been inactive for nearly 60 days at this point, so the only "active" admin by the strict definition is KenanKel. He cannot promote anybody, so staff would be willing to assist with a promotion should he request it. In order to gain rights from staff without his direct request, somebody would need to be active on the wikia, and :

1) have the support of the community. Several users have volunteered to become admins/moderators. So a discussion and vote on all candidates would need to be held as a blog or forum to select new admins. Please make it very clear whether you are requesting sysop or bureaucrat status for each candidate. The votes should be signed (comments, or forum edits) and not part of a poll. 2) leave a message on Kenan Kel's wall with a link to the discussion and a short description of what it is about.

Both of these would need to be given a week for response. At the end of that time, if everybody is in agreement and KenanKel has not responded (or is also in agreement) then we would be willing to promote users.

Please let me know if any aspect of this process is unclear. Whoever is chosen can make a new request for adopting the wikia with links to the relevant discussions.

best, Wendy

In other words, we need support within the next week to be considered promoted. 