A Wikipedia article for your company
The article is the easy part. Whether your company clears the notability bar is the whole question, and we answer it before you pay for the writing.
How does a company get a Wikipedia page?
A company qualifies for a Wikipedia article when it meets the notability guideline for organisations: significant coverage in multiple reliable sources that are independent of the company. Press releases, company blogs, routine funding announcements, interviews and paid placements do not count towards notability. A draft is submitted through Articles for Creation and reviewed by volunteer editors, and anyone writing for payment must disclose that paid relationship under Wikipedia’s terms of use.
Funding announcements, founder interviews, listicles and anything derived from a press release are the four things companies most often present as evidence, and all four are discounted by reviewers. Coverage has to be about you and written by someone who chose to write it.
Sources that count towards company notability
- In-depth articles in major newspapers or trade press written independently
- Analysis in books or academic publications
- Substantial coverage in established industry publications with editorial oversight
- Court records, regulatory filings and government reports of substance
- Awards from independent bodies with their own coverage
How a company Wikipedia case runs
Half of the cases we assess do not pass, and we would rather say so in week one than bill for a draft that gets declined.
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Notability assessment
Your coverage is scored against the organisations guideline, source by source, with each one marked as counting or not and why.
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Go or no-go
If you do not pass, you get the assessment and the gap, not an invoice for a draft. Where coverage is the gap, earned coverage is the route — and that is a different service with a different timeline.
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Neutral draft
Written in Wikipedia’s voice, every claim cited. Promotional language is the fastest route to a decline, so the draft reads colder than any company would write about itself.
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Disclosed submission
Submitted through Articles for Creation with the paid relationship declared on the account and the talk page.
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Review cycle
Volunteer reviewers respond on their own schedule. Revisions are included; arguing with reviewers is not a strategy.
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Proof
The live article URL releases the balance.
The specifics
- Decided by
- Volunteer Wikipedia editors, not us and not you
- Typical timeline
- 2 to 6 months including the Articles for Creation queue
- Disclosure
- Mandatory and public, under Wikipedia’s terms of use
- Counts as delivered
- The article is live in the main namespace
- If declined
- Full refund from escrow
What we will not claim
- Wikipedia requires paid editors to disclose who is paying them. We disclose, every time. Undisclosed paid editing gets accounts blocked and articles deleted, and it is the single most common reason a bought Wikipedia page disappears a month later.
- Nobody owns a Wikipedia article, including the subject of it. Once it exists, any editor can change it, and a page that exists is a page that can carry criticism as well as achievement.
- We will not write an article for a company that does not meet the notability guideline. It would be declined, and attempting it leaves a deletion record that makes a later, legitimate attempt harder.
- We do not control the review queue and cannot buy priority in it.
Questions
Last reviewed . Platform policies change; we re-check every page quarterly.