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 official disclosed conflict-of-interest (COI) process, which keeps the work both compliant and effective.

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, so this 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. Because Wikipedia is built from reliable, independent secondary sourcing, 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 explicitly directs interested or paid parties to do exactly this: editors with a conflict of interest are strongly discouraged from editing affected articles directly and are instead 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 always rests with the community, not with us and not with the client.

This approach strikes the balance between being compliant and being effective: the article improves through Wikipedia’s own legitimate editorial process, which produces durable changes rather than edits that get reverted.