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

Hello Herald,

You made me an admin at the Saiunkoku wikia awhile back; you are currently still an admin as well, though I understand that you've moved on. I'm dropping by here to ask for some advice regarding an editor who recently joined the Sainkoku wiki.

Recently, a user had made a lot of contributions to the wiki and had been requesting to become an Admin. I was not comfortable with giving Admin status to the user at this time and wanted to wait, given how the user seemed to be a new editor who was making a lot of edits all of sudden.

The user has elected today to make their own Saiunkoku wiki and asked for all the contributions they made to the wiki to be reversed (either hidden or deleted, so that their contributions never existed). While I agreed to remove all their images (there was over a hundred) and delete the pages they created (and had been the only editor of) as a courtesy and did so, I think I may have been overly generous with the offer.

I guess I'm asking for advice if refusing to remove a user's contributions (especially when they've made over 1000 edits in about a month) when they decide to leave is too demanding. Since a wiki is collaborative, I don't see an edit to change content information "belonging" to that contributor, but this user no longer wanted their content contributions to be on the wiki (at all, it seems, including in the wiki's history) so they could use it to build their own wiki. I don't want to discourage users, but this user's request was actually very disruptive and inconvenient (in some cases impossible, given they wanted to remove all evidence that they had had edited the wiki) to perform given the sheer number of contributions.

Thank you for any response you can provide. Eikakou (talk) 08:31, May 1, 2016 (UTC) 