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Our founder is mentioned on our company Wikipedia page but the content is inaccurate. How does that get fixed?

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Inaccuracies on a company page are fixed through Talk-page edit requests that cite reliable secondary sources for the corrected facts. Community editors review and implement the change.

Factual inaccuracies on a Wikipedia article – a founder’s birth year, a company’s founding date, an executive’s previous role, a product’s release year – are among the most straightforward Wikipedia issues to resolve, provided the request is presented correctly. The Talk-page edit request should identify the specific text that is wrong, propose the correct replacement text, and cite the reliable secondary sources that establish the correction. Primary sources (the company’s own website, official press releases) generally are not sufficient on their own; the correction needs to be supportable through independent reliable sources like news coverage, academic references, or authoritative reference works. With the sources in place, an uninvolved community editor evaluates the request and typically implements it quickly because factual corrections backed by reliable sources are the kind of edit Wikipedia editors prefer to make. We handle this kind of request constantly across client engagements and the success rate, when the sourcing is done right, is high.

Last reviewed: 19/05/2026

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