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Eric W. Jepson – the W Stands for “Weasel”

By Eddy Landwehr

Following up on our blog post about Nihonjoe’s conflict of interest editing, we present this as a public service to the Wikipedia community.

Eric W. Jepson edits Wikipedia as Thmazing. If you search Wikipedia for his name, you will find he is named or used as a source in a few articles. Did he add himself to Wikipedia? Yes. Is that allowed on Wikipedia? Good question. It’s strongly discouraged, but not completely prohibited. Most people understand that they probably shouldn’t do this – but then there’s Eric W. Jepson.

Fire in the pastoral weasel

A Wikipedia search for “Eric W. Jepson” only yields three articles, but a search for “Jepson Eric” will get you another four. Then, you sort of have to know that Eric Jepson also calls himself “Theric Jepson” sometimes. So a search for “Theric Jepson” and a search for “Jepson Theric” will return a few more.

Clear Conflict

But this involves more than just squeezing your own name into Wikipedia. Jepson is a long-time member and past President of something called the Association for Mormon Letters (AML). You might think he would have avoided editing an article about something for which he has such an obvious conflict of interest. You’d be wrong. Jepson (as Thmazing) created the article, and edited it dozens of times, including while he was the AML’s President. Jepson is also the editor of the AML’s magazine, Irreantum, so you might think he’d avoid that article, too. Nope!

When Jepson was confronted about his conflict of interest with the AML in December 2023, he brushed it off at first. Then he attacked the person asking about it. When the

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Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty

By Eddy Landwehr

Bureaucrats are the most trusted users on Wikipedia. There are only 19 bureaucrats for the entire English-language Wikipedia. Bureaucrats have the ability to grant or revoke administrator privileges, so it is important that the Wikipedia community chooses bureaucrats they can trust. Nihonjoe, Wikipedia bureaucrat, is not trustworthy and never has been.

The elephant in the roomThe elephant in the room

Nihonjoe started editing Wikipedia in 2005. In 2006, they became an admin. They became a bureaucrat in 2009, after 3 unsuccessful attempts. When they first applied to become a bureaucrat in 2007, they stated “I think it’s very important to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest”. Those are fine words, but Nihonjoe did not follow them.

Who is Nihonjoe?

To understand Nihonjoe’s conflicts of interest, it is necessary to know who he is outside of Wikipedia. There is an account on Deviant Art that is also named Nihonjoe. That account has posted several times about an art show that is part of a convention called CONduit. The contact for the CONduit art show was Joe Monson of Orem, Utah. Deviant Art’s Nihonjoe’s profile states that they live in “Utahppia”.

In one of their posts, they also mention that “my wife was one of the winners” and included a Heather Monson in that list. Joe Monson of Orem, Utah is married to a Heather Monson. I suppose if one took the time, one could probably find images on the Deviant Art account that were also uploaded to Commons by Nihonjoe. Like this and this.

Joe Monson’s LinkedIn page tells us that he is an “Information Technology Administrator, Inventory Manager at Aquaveo | Managing Editor,

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The Nicholas Alahverdian Story Update

The overall effect of incidents like the Nicholas Alahverdian case is to make Wikipedia seem as vulnerable and easy to manipulate as ever, at a time when Wikipedia is already under pressure to make good on its PR-campaign promises to be a “bulwark” against online disinformation.

…continue reading The Nicholas Alahverdian Story Update