Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-4403232-20140720181334/@comment-4403232-20140721172143

Varzan Deodinm Beldinm wrote: It's always nice to see how fast you all are ready to be rid of someone even though it's clear he's not coming back anyways. With that said, I don't understand why this actually needs a vote. I would've just removed him discreetly and been done with it.

There's two reasons for this. One, we prefer to have the community involved with the selection (and by extension removal) of the staff representing their interests and desires. And two, only Wikia Staff can remove bureaucrat rights from a user, and in order for them to do so, it needs to be shown that the community of a wiki strongly agrees to and supports said course of action.