How to get yourself listed on Wikipedia:

 The world today is driven by information. Everything is just a click away. Name it, and with just a tap on our screens, we got it.

The rate of addition to information is equally skyrocketing as the rate of consumption of information. One such giant that feeds the world’s hunger for information is Wikipedia. In a layman’s words,  we can call it the Shashi Tharoor (a metaphor for epitomizing) of information.

 

How does Wikipedia

When the internet took over the world by the wave of information, we were all enticed by the new periphery of knowledge that we had just entered.

Wikipedia is the most read and referred to as the platform for information. It is a free source,  open for everyone to add new information to the page and also edit the already existing information. It’s a multilingual platform, and hence it can achieve a  wide readership internationally. It is a platform maintained by a community of volunteers collaboratively.

Who doesn’t want to get established as a professional? Everyone!

If to get published on a renowned platform is the dream, and you’re just beginning your journey, and does it seem like a long way?

Here’s the solution! In this article, we are going to touch upon all the ways you can get yourself listed on Wikipedia. You can also get listed yourself with the Wikipedia page creation service or Wikipedia profile creation service.

Getting yourself listed on Wikipedia is not a big deal to crack. All you need to be is smart, practical, and have some luck in your favor. Since Wikipedia is free and open-source, anyone can add and edit the information either in anonymity or as a registered editor. To make your mark, you need to feature as references in other articles and Wiki pages as well.

 

Say No to Autobiography :

Writing an article about yourself that is loaded with 1000 words is not a good idea. Writing an article about yourself would include a good amount of time investment and brainstorming, and it would be a futile effort as it would be rejected by an admin.

So, it is advisable to write against biography. Technically anyone and everyone around the globe can make a page on Wikipedia about you. It could consider false information, thereby presenting you in an unethical way.

Similarly, a population of equal numbers can edit the information provided by you or anyone suiting to their whims and fancies.

To make a Wikipedia page, you need to qualify for it. The first step towards creating a social media presence you need to first have notability.  Without this must have quality, your Wikipedia page is likely to get deleted.

Once you or your company qualify for the notability test, you then need to create your page. There are numerable people and their companies that took the notability tests n qualified for it, yet they are not yet listed on Wikipedia, as it ultimately boils down to reliability, which is one of the core principles of Wikipedia.

Once you qualify the notability criteria, you then need as many references as possible. Any article that partially mentions you in a passing way would not be good enough since it doesn’t bring out the best of you.

Several brands,  influencers, and people believe themselves to be very notable, but their notability falls quite short for Wikipedia to list or feature them. The articles that feature you as a reference, essentially as you being the main subject of it, can be counted as a  proper reference of you or your work.

It could be a magazine feature, an interview, a mention by some big name in the industry you’re are part of. The article should be either eponymous, or it should feature your name or reference of your work on a well-known website.

Wikipedia clearly states that if the topic or the reference of a company or a  person has received wide attention and is an acclaimed entity among a wide range of people and market, in a reliable source that is of the independent subject, its consideration can be assumed for the listing on Wikipedia.

There are certain subjects that Wikipedia have their own specified guidelines for.  They are called: Subject-specific Guidelines.

So far, you must have understood that quality is all that Wikipedia believes in, but that’s not enough. Wikipedia believes equally in quantity. Single-digit references for Wikipedia might not work well. It takes more than that to get listed on  Wikipedia.

It could be media articles about you and your company. Let’s bring in a  big name to provide you with a clue, Elon Musk, yes! The richest man in the world. You might be thinking, who doesn’t know Elon? But that’s not how  Wikipedia functions.

Elon has been featured on Wired.com, a giant tech publication, and has several other references under his name. This is what makes Elon Musk’s page tested and qualified for both notability and significant reference, satisfying the need for both quality and quantity.

 

Reliable Vs. Primary Sources:

Now let’s get deeper into what kind of resources can get you listed on Wikipedia.  There’s a difference between primary and reliable sources. Primary sources imply  that the article or the reference in an article on any platform is self-published, and  Wikipedia doesn’t consider this kind of source as eligible for listing on their platform.

Wikipedia states that a primary reference is either by the organization or people associated with the organization, and hence that comes under the category of Self-publication. It could be a subject’s website, a press release by the company, etc.

You must be wondering what Reliable sources are. A Reliable source is a source by a third party. A third-party referenced source is not only reliable but also has a  reputation for fact-checking. For example, articles written by Scholars are relevant, but an article that cites scholars is a better one.

 

References that Lessen Your Chances of Getting Listed:

Here are some references NOT to rely on when aiming at getting yourself listed on Wikipedia.

  • Tabloid Journalism
  • Amazon Reviews
  • Social Media Comments
  • IMDB
  • Quora
  • PR News
  • Research Gate
  • Self-published material

Some of the sources mentioned above may be big names, but since they are all user-generated sources, they do not serve as a reliable source for reference.

 

Conclusion

You must be assuming that hardly any person out of Wikipedia gets a listing on it. You’re mistaken. Wikipedia doesn’t consider itself as a reliable source. It rejects itself due to a power that it provides people with. Since the Wikipedia Articles can be edited by anyone around the world, it doesn’t advise people, students,  academicians, teachers, scholars from around the world to cite them as a source. Make sure to be patient throughout the process, considering all the factors before getting started with the listing idea.

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