Thread:Raylan13/@comment-499247-20181110144854/@comment-3183460-20181111174007

Rights granted ;) No worries on activity level - I mean, life is much more important.

I carried over your contributions last night :) It didn't take too long, as I had already made it so that this wiki shares WoWWiki's image database, so I could avoid all the image and icon uploads. I skipped some - like pages with only one sentence or those that were essentially empty - and also avoided the handful that were strictly lore. There are some I'd like to merge with ones that already existed here (profession pages, iirc) as I took a lot of the pages here from what was on the very old official warcraft site from way back. Since I'm in the midst of category revamping anyway, it'll be pretty easy to do that at the same time.

Vanilla WoWWiki, for the time being, is going to stay open. In our messaging to those concerned, we've made it clear that this one will be the supported one and will quickly eclipse that one, well before Classic even launches. We'll make a judgement call then whether to go and close/redirect it. I helped co-found the Vanilla one, so it's more than a bit ironic what's happened, but it is what it is. So it's continued existence past Classic's launch depends on whether the community has built it out to be something other than private server-centric and what I'd like to do with it, if anything. Private servers, like anything that would skirt TOU, EULA, trademark, etc., isn't something we really support on FANDOM. But we'll see.

As for Emhil, he was inactive for about a year, maybe more, so that's why rights were removed. Technically that's permissible for staff to do after only three months of inactivity - but there's double the responsibility being the only other bcrat myself. Standard practice is that if an admin has been gone for that minimum amount of time, they may have abandoned the site. If it's only at the minimum threshold, then we'd reach out to make changes, but since the time of absence was so great, that wasn't required ;) In fact, he hasn't edited on any wiki since late 2017.