Our founder is mentioned on our company Wikipedia page but the content is inaccurate. How does that get fixed?

Factual inaccuracies on a Wikipedia article, a founder’s birth year, a company’s founding date, an executive’s previous role, a product’s release year, are among the easier Wikipedia problems to fix, as long as you present the request correctly. The fix runs through Wikipedia’s Talk-page edit-request process, not by editing the article directly. A company correcting its own page has a conflict of interest (COI), so Wikipedia discourages direct edits and expects the change to be proposed on the Talk page for an independent editor to review.

What a correction request needs

A well-formed edit request has three parts, which lets a reviewing editor act on it quickly:

• The wrong text, quote the exact sentence or phrase in the article that is inaccurate.
• The corrected replacement text, state precisely what it should say instead.
• The reliable secondary source(s), cite independent, published sources that establish the correct fact.

Why sourcing decides the outcome

Wikipedia builds articles on reliable, independent, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking. A company’s own website or official press releases are primary sources and usually are not enough on their own to support a correction. The change has to hold up through independent secondary sources such as news reporting from well-established outlets, authoritative reference works, or books from respected publishers.

How the request is handled

Once you file the request with sourcing in place, an uninvolved community editor reviews it, checks the sources, and either makes the change or asks follow-up questions. Factual corrections backed by reliable sources are the kind of edit Wikipedia editors prefer to make, so well-sourced requests usually go through without trouble.