Thread:Herald of meridian/@comment-1442230-20160501083146/@comment-1430834-20160502014606

Adminship is not necessary in contributing, unless there's no one around and you want to improve a particular wiki's wordmark, theme or background. Personally, I have been holding back on giving adminship status on everyone like candy just because of the bulk of edits one has made, and it didn't really matter to those who contribute for the love of the work. Consider a refusal of getting adminship status as a test of good faith for your contributors. If they suddenly grow horns after having turned down on an admin request, then you've probably exposed that user's true colors.

On another note, a user that wants one's traces be removed from a wiki is probably the weirdest request any admin would receive from a user. As you've said before, it's very disruptive, especially if the amount of edits are at the hundreds range, and it brings everyone to an earlier state that could affect contributor morale. You could talk to that contributor about keeping one's edits as long as they are made in good faith. Seriously though, I have no idea why such a drastic decision have to be made by a user just because of a plan to make a separate wiki.