Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that ranks at the top of every search engine. This means that having a Wikipedia article for your company would
prove to be highly beneficial as it can boost your online visibility, and bring
attention to your brand. It is both smart and a highly dangerous and futile
move. Being a free encyclopedia, Wikipedia is open for every and anyone to edit
and incorporate false information about your company. However, with some best practices, you can create a successful
Wikipedia page for your business. There
are three steps which you can follow to create a Wikipedia page.
Step1: Determining Notability
Before you start to write a Wikipedia
page, it is important that you search for
your company on Wikipedia. If you own a
well-known and reputable business, it is possible
that someone might actually have made
your Company’s Wikipedia page. If you don’t have it, you can proceed by
searching for other companies on Wikipedia. You must note the pattern of how
they have written the Wikipedia article in a neutral, unbiased and glorified tone.
Other than that, they must also have sited the information for further
information to support the article.
Locate these sources and determine whether or not you have
the sources to cite your information on the Wikipedia
page. This will prove that if your
company is notable and worthy of having a Wikipedia page.
Step 2: create a Wikipedia account
Making an account on Wikipedia is comparatively easy. You simply have to click on “create account” on Wikipedia English home page and enter a user
name in the appropriate box, adhering to Wikipedia user name policy. It is highly
recommended to not enter your company
name or your personal name or email
address of the company as a user name on
Wikipedia.
Finally, you can enter the password in the designated space,
then enter the CAPTCHA code and click on “create account”. However, if you do not have the time, it is easier to hire a Wikipedia Services to
do the job.
Step 3: create your article
When you are done by
creating the Wikipedia page, you can start off
by drafting a rough document that the Wikipedia contributors call the “stub”.
A stub is a short article with all the subheading providing only the basic facts of
your company.
After that, log in to
your Wikipedia account and start the Wikipedia’s article wizard to create an
article. Click on “create an article now”
and follow the guidelines, some of which will be an action that you have already done taken before creating a Wikipedia
account. After you have studied all the guidelines
for writing the Wikipedia article, you can
copy and paste the stub into the Wikipedia template.
Finally, click save and wait until your article is reviewed. If
it is declined to be published, make sure
to review it and make the necessary edits o resubmit it. You can add”{{subst:sumbit}}” to the top of the
page you edited and save the revised
version of your Wikipedia article.
