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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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Wikipedia and Neal Schon: Who’s Sorry Now?

The first thing you notice when you look at Neal Schon’s Wikipedia biography is a big ugly warning that “some of this article’s listed sources may not be reliable.” That warning has been there since 2013.

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What’s in a Name?

Peppermint, uploaded by Tenebrae to Wikimedia Commons

Peppermint abandoned her original name, became famous under a new name, and politely asked everyone to refer to her by her new, legal name. No problem, right? Well, some Wikipedians do have a problem. For some, it is a totally unacceptable imposition.

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