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

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 fix runs through Wikipedia’s Talk-page edit-request process, not by editing the article directly. Because a company correcting its own page has a conflict of interest (COI), Wikipedia strongly discourages direct edits and instead expects the change to be proposed on the Talk page for an independent editor to review.

What a correction request needs

A well-formed edit request has three parts, which makes it fast for a reviewing editor to act on:

• The wrong text, quote the exact sentence or phrase in the article that is inaccurate.
• The corrected replacement text, state precisely what it should say instead.
• The reliable secondary source(s), cite independent, published sources that establish the correct fact.

Why sourcing decides the outcome

Wikipedia bases articles on reliable, independent, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking. A company’s own website or official press releases are primary sources and generally are not sufficient on their own to support a correction. The change needs to be supportable through independent secondary sources such as news reporting from well-established outlets, authoritative reference works, or books from respected publishers.

How the request is handled

Once the request is filed with sourcing in place, an uninvolved community editor evaluates it, checks the sources, and either implements the change or asks follow-up questions. Factual corrections backed by reliable sources are the kind of edit Wikipedia editors prefer to make, so well-sourced requests are typically actioned without difficulty.