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Wikipedia has stringent guidelines on eligible submissions, including the following:
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Must be notable content |
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Must follow all insertion rules |
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Must abide by the unique formatting requirements |
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Must utilize valid (non-internal) and verifiable sources |
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Cannot publish personal, company or brand advertisements |
- How do you determine if what you have to say will be noteworthy to the administrators?
- How do you obey the formatting requirements when you don’t understand the techno jargon used by Wikipedia administrators?
- How do write the article supported by valid and verifiable sources?
What’s more, there is an extremely fine line between noteworthy, informational or educational content and advertising when it comes to companies and their products/services. Getting caught in this dichotomy is where many businesses fail to keep their information posted on Wikipedia.
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Furthermore, not all articles have the same weight and visibility on Wikipedia. Instead, there’s a defined Quality scale for articles as follows:
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Stub - A very basic description of the topic. |
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Start - An article in development, but incomplete and lacking adequate, reliable sources. |
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C - The article is substantial, but missing important content or contains irrelevant material. |
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B - The article is mostly complete and without major issues, but requires some more work. |
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A - The article is well-organized and complete, reviewed by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject. |
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GA - 'Good Article Status' - The article is well-written, factually accurate, broad in coverage, neutral, stable, and illustrated. |
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FA - 'Featured Article Status' – The article is the best you can get. These articles appear on the Wikipedia homepage. |
It is difficult and time consuming for non-experts to learn all requirements for developing an article which would rank above “stub” or a “start”.
