QUOTE(CharlotteWebb @ Thu 10th September 2009, 4:24pm)
QUOTE(MBisanz @ Thu 10th September 2009, 2:44pm)
Just last night I ran across an admin who has inserted over 100 references to his blog in articles and admits to owning the blog on his userpage.
Yikes. You should do something about that, seriously. Or at least open a separate thread about it.
Well, let's look at my options.
If I open a WR thread on him, people at WP will say I am using WR to harass him, since there is nothing preventing me from making the statement on WP (CHL and NYB have said as much in the past I think). But WR tends to be more effective at investigating admin conduct issues than WP:AN, since there are so few people willing to publicly challenge other admins (I've taken on eight admins, six successfully, so I can speak from experience here).
Of course this admin is associated with a weighty Wikiproject, so even if I could get traction at WP:AN, it is likely I would make a large number of enemies and given that Arbcom has rarely heard or penalized the issue of self promotion, it would be a large cost with low chance of success.
Also, this admin lives about 20 miles from me according to his userpage, so it is conceivable that I would run into him at a meetup, and I generally try to avoid making enemies of people I will have to see in real life.
I suppose I could remove a couple of the most egregious instances of the links (I checked with a couple other admins I trust and they agree it is inappropriate promotion) and hope someone is following my edits, but there is still some cost and I have another issue that I know will result in enemies that I am also working on at the moment.
So I am still contemplating what to do.