Can you create a Wikipedia page for yourself or your company?

Creating your own Wikipedia article, or having an employee or vendor create it without disclosure, is one of the most common and most damaging mistakes companies make with Wikipedia. The policy is explicit: editors with a financial or personal interest in a subject should not create or edit articles about that subject directly. Articles created this way are routinely flagged, scrubbed of promotional language, nominated for deletion, or in some cases blocked from re-creation entirely. The community also publicly tags the article with maintenance notices that other editors and readers can see for months or years afterward. The correct path is disclosed paid editing under Wikipedia’s terms of use: a paid editor or representative discloses the relationship on their user page and on the article’s Talk page, and submits proposed content through the Articles for Creation process or via Talk-page edit requests for independent community review. We do this work for clients and the disclosure is part of how we work, not a workaround.