My Wikipedia article has wrong information and it keeps getting reverted when I try to fix it. Why?
Direct edits by an article's subject keep getting reverted because the problem is procedural, not substantive: editing your own article triggers Wikipedia's COI, PAID, and NPOV rules. The fix is to switch channels and file a disclosed-COI Talk-page edit request citing reliable secondary sources, which community editors then implement.
When a Wikipedia subject (or someone close to them) tries to edit the article directly and the edits keep getting reverted, the cause is almost always procedural rather than substantive. Even when the correction you are trying to make is genuinely accurate, the channel you are using to make it is what triggers the revert.
Why direct edits get reverted
Three Wikipedia policies converge on edits made by the subject of an article:
- Conflict of interest (WP:COI), defines a conflict of interest to include subjects, their employees, and their PR firms, and discourages direct article edits by interested parties even when the edit is unpaid.
- Paid-contribution disclosure (WP:PAID), requires anyone compensated to edit on behalf of a subject to disclose that relationship before editing.
- Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV), demands a neutral encyclopedic tone, which subjects rarely produce when correcting their own article.
Because of this, direct edits from a conflict-of-interest account get reverted and the article tagged even when the underlying correction is accurate. The revert is about who is editing and how, not whether the fact is right.

The fix: switch channels
The remediation, even when your correction is genuinely accurate, is to stop editing the article directly and switch to the disclosed-COI path:
- Open a Talk-page edit request on the article, disclosing the conflict of interest.
- Identify the wrong text and propose the specific replacement wording.
- Cite reliable secondary sources for each proposed change.
- Let independent community editors evaluate and implement the request.
Community editors who have watched the article through these disputes will usually implement reasonable, well-sourced requests. The correction lands; the procedural friction goes away.
Last reviewed: 19/05/2026