How to Develop a Wikipedia Page for Your Business?

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.