Can Five Blocks edit my Wikipedia page?

Yes. Five Blocks works with clients to improve their Wikipedia pages, but never by editing the article directly. We use Wikipedia’s disclosed conflict-of-interest (COI) process, which keeps the work compliant and produces changes that hold.

Here is how a disclosed COI engagement works:

1. Create a disclosed account

We set up a Wikipedia account that publicly identifies who it represents, for example “Bluedolphin is working on behalf of ACME and will be making suggestions to improve the current page.” Wikipedia policy requires anyone paid to contribute to disclose their employer, client, and affiliation. That disclosure is not optional; it is the rule that makes the rest of the work legitimate.

2. Research well-sourced changes

Our team identifies accurate, well-sourced information that supports a more complete article. Wikipedia is built from reliable, independent secondary sources, so every proposed change is tied to citations that meet the platform’s standards rather than to the client’s own materials.

3. Submit through the proper channel

Rather than editing the article ourselves, we propose changes on the article’s Talk page, or, for a new article, through Articles for Creation. Wikipedia directs paid parties to do exactly this: editors with a conflict of interest are strongly discouraged from editing affected articles directly and are asked to propose changes on talk pages so they can be peer-reviewed.

4. Independent editors decide

Independent Wikipedia community editors review the proposal and implement it at their discretion. We make sure each request is well-sourced and aligned with Wikipedia’s guidelines, but the decision to publish rests with the community, not with us and not with the client.

The article improves through Wikipedia’s own editorial process, which is why the changes hold rather than get reverted.