What’s involved in getting a Wikipedia article published?

Getting a Wikipedia article published is a process, not an event. For a subject with a conflict-of-interest (COI) relationship, the compliant path runs through six ordered steps, from testing whether the subject is notable enough to support an article all the way to publication in mainspace.

The six steps to publication

1. Sourcing analysis. We audit the subject’s existing coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources and judge whether the notability bar can be met as the record stands. Wikipedia’s general notability standard expects significant coverage in multiple reliable, independent sources, so if that coverage does not yet exist the recommendation may be to defer the article until it does.
2. Drafting. The article is built in a user sandbox or through the Articles for Creation (AfC) process, structured to Wikipedia’s encyclopedic conventions, sourced inline, and written in a neutral point of view.
3. Submission with disclosed COI. The draft is submitted with the paid or affiliated relationship disclosed, naming the employer, the client, and any affiliation, in compliance with the Wikimedia Foundation’s terms of use. COI editors are strongly discouraged from publishing about the subject directly, which is why the draft goes through review rather than straight to the article.
4. Community review. An uninvolved Articles for Creation reviewer evaluates the draft against notability and Wikipedia’s content policies before it can move to mainspace.
5. Response to feedback. Any concerns the reviewer raises are addressed substantively, with revisions and additional sourcing as needed, and the draft is resubmitted.
6. Publication to mainspace. The article moves to mainspace once an uninvolved reviewer accepts it.

Each step has its own quality bar, and trying to compress the sequence tends to produce articles that get challenged or deleted shortly after they appear.