How do you handle outdated statistics or data on a Wikipedia page?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Outdated statistics on a Wikipedia article are among the easier maintenance items because the sourcing is usually straightforward. The workflow: identify the specific outdated figure (employee count, revenue, market share, geographic footprint, whatever the figure is), find the current authoritative source such as annual reports, SEC filings, or 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