How do you handle outdated statistics or data on a Wikipedia page?
File a Talk-page edit request with the current sourced figures, and community editors review and implement when sourcing supports the change.
Outdated statistics on a Wikipedia article are among the easier maintenance items because the sourcing is usually straightforward. The workflow: identify the specific outdated figure (employee count, revenue, market share, geographic footprint, whatever the figure is), find the current authoritative source – annual reports, SEC filings, mainstream press citing the company’s official disclosures – and file a Talk-page edit request with the proposed updated text and the citation. Community editors typically implement these updates routinely because they are policy-compliant and source-supported. The mistake we sometimes see in legacy article histories is editors updating statistics without changing the citation, which leaves the old reference attached to the new number; that gets reverted on verifiability grounds. New numbers need new citations.
Last reviewed: 19/05/2026