Thread:Merrystar/@comment-60907-20170616220316/@comment-11001-20170617065223

The last login date is not always accurate (my last login date, for example, is 2015), and even when correct can be misleading. A user who stays logged in for a long time may appear inactive based on that date even though they have been editing on another wiki on the day you look. I mentioned it as a parenthetical comment because the issue is not relevant to adoption; the only activity that matters for adoption is edits on the wiki being adopted. This is true both for the person adopting and for the current and/or former admins on the wiki itself.

The adoption requirements are simply for consistent and non-destructive edits. There is no requirement that they be large or small. We believe that it is better for a wiki to have an admin making consistent positive contributions of any type than to have no admin at all. While I understand that TheBigGnome is not the user you would have picked to give admin rights yourself, that does not make the adoption invalid.

Before I answered your message, I re-checked TheBigGnome's contributions from January in case I had made a mistake at that time. I also checked all of his recent contributions, logs and messages as well as all of yours.

Staff do not generally interfere in local blocks or disputes between admins; there is a longer explanation of this policy in this blog. It outlines both the situations where staff will and will not interfere, and also offers some ideas for moving forward.

You are welcome to send a message to Special:Contact; however it is very likely that the ticket will be passed to me to answer because I handled the adoption in the first place.