Credible Roots / Wikipedia page creation
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Wikipedia page creation, done the way Wikipedia allows
Research, drafting, disclosure and submission for professionals whose work has already been covered independently. We assess whether you qualify before you pay for any of it.
More than five years in personal branding. Runs atharvsankpal.com and works with founders and businesses in the US on their digital presence. Previously produced AI video for brands.
Published 2026-08-14
Researched against primary sources, drafted with AI assistance, then reviewed and approved by the named author. How we write · About the author
A Wikipedia article about you exists only when independent journalists, authors or researchers have already covered you in depth, and volunteer editors agree that record clears the notability bar. What a provider can legitimately do is assess your coverage honestly, research and draft an encyclopedic article from it, disclose the paid relationship as the Wikimedia Terms of Use require, submit through Articles for Creation, and handle the revisions reviewers ask for. What no provider can do is guarantee the outcome, control the finished article, or make a non-notable subject notable by writing well. We work in that order, and we tell you at the assessment stage if the answer is that you are not there yet.
How the work actually runs
Five stages, in this order. The first one decides whether the rest happen at all.
Notability assessment
We collect every independent source that mentions you and test each one against the three criteria a reviewer applies: is the coverage significant, is the publication reliable, and was it produced by someone unconnected to you. You get a straight answer on whether an article is defensible today. If it is not, we say so before you pay for article work.
Source research
Reviewers judge the sourcing, not the prose. So the bulk of the work is finding, verifying and organizing the independent material that supports every claim the article will make, including archival coverage you may have forgotten about.
Drafting
Written in encyclopedic register, which is flatter and more neutral than any bio you have approved before. It attributes claims to sources, avoids promotional framing, and sometimes includes material you would rather omit, because a draft that reads like marketing is declined regardless of merit.
Disclosed submission
We disclose the paid relationship on the editing account as the Terms of Use require, and submit through Articles for Creation so an independent reviewer sees the draft before it goes live. This is slower than publishing directly and it is the route that survives scrutiny.
Revisions and monitoring
Reviewers ask for changes. We handle them. Once an article is live we watch for edits and factual errors, and correct them through the proper channels rather than by editing the article ourselves.
What the engagement includes
Wikipedia is one layer. On its own it is slow and outside your control, so the engagement runs the layers you do control at the same time.
- Notability assessment and source audit, before any commitment to article work
- Research, drafting and disclosed submission of the article itself
- Wikidata profile, the structured record search engines read directly
- Knowledge panel groundwork, so Google can resolve you as one unambiguous entity
- AI search visibility work, making your material retrievable and quotable by answer engines
- An ongoing content engine, because independent coverage tends to follow people who publish
The route depends on what you do
Wikipedia does not apply one standard to everyone. Some professions have a specialist route that does not require press coverage at all, and others have no shortcut whatsoever. Which door applies to you changes the assessment entirely.
Should you just do it yourself?
A fair question, and sometimes the answer is yes. If you already have clear independent coverage and the patience for the guidelines, doing it yourself costs nothing but time. We set out both routes honestly here, including when paying someone is not worth it.
What it costs
The Wikipedia work sits inside this rather than being billed as a standalone article fee. The three month minimum exists because the review window alone often runs four to ten weeks, and because the surrounding work compounds rather than completing on a fixed date.
More on what a Wikipedia page actually costs, including the parts most quotes leave out. Worth saying plainly: the assessment comes first, and if it shows you are not notable yet, we will tell you that instead of taking the engagement.
What we do not promise
- A guaranteed article. Volunteer editors decide, and Wikipedia's own guidance treats paid guarantees against deletion as fraudulent.
- A fixed live date. The reviewer queue is not ours to schedule.
- Editorial control once an article exists. Nobody has that, including you.
- Removal of sourced material you dislike. That is not how the encyclopedia works.
- An article for a subject who does not meet the notability bar.
Who this fits, and who it does not
| A good fit | Not yet | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | Several in-depth pieces about you in publications you had no hand in | Interviews, guest columns, press releases and your own site |
| Career stage | Fifteen or more years, with a documented body of work | Early career, or a record that lives mostly inside one company |
| Expectation | Wants a durable public record and understands editors decide | Wants a controlled profile page that says what you choose |
| Timeline | Comfortable with months, working on other layers meanwhile | Needs something live by a fixed date |
| Appetite | Happy to build coverage first if the assessment says so | Wants the article regardless of whether the sourcing supports it |
The odds, published
Most providers in this market do not publish approval rates. Here are the only large-scale figures we know of, including the ones that are bad for us.
Published research
| Finding | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Articles for Creation submissions declined overall | 68% | Lumino Digital, Articles for Creation approval rates, 2026 |
| Submissions about business executives that were approved | 12% | Lumino Digital, Articles for Creation approval rates, 2026 |
| Submissions in the Business category approved | 16% | Lumino Digital, Articles for Creation approval rates, 2026 |
| Declines caused by notability and sourcing rather than formatting | 57% | Lumino Digital, Articles for Creation approval rates, 2026 |
Source: an audit of 1,009 Articles for Creation submissions sampled September to October 2025, published 2026 by Lumino Digital, a Wikipedia consultancy. We are citing a firm that competes with us because it is the only large-scale empirical study of the AfC process we are aware of, and our own editorial standards forbid using a figure we cannot attribute. Single sample, one two-month window, so treat the category splits as indicative rather than precise.
An approval rate of twelve per cent for executives is the number that should shape your decision. It is also why our process puts the notability assessment before payment rather than after: the majority of submissions fail, and they fail on sourcing that could have been assessed beforehand.
Questions people actually ask
How much does a Wikipedia page cost?
Our engagement is $2,000 per month with a three month minimum, and the Wikipedia work is one part of it rather than a standalone fee. Standalone Wikipedia writing is usually quoted as a one-off in the low thousands. The number that matters more than either is whether you are notable, because if you are not, no fee produces an article that survives review.
Is it legal to pay someone to write your Wikipedia page?
Yes. Paid editing is permitted, but the Wikimedia Terms of Use require anyone compensated for a contribution to disclose their employer, client and affiliation. We disclose, and we submit through Articles for Creation so an uninvolved reviewer assesses the draft. Undisclosed paid editing is what gets accounts blocked and articles deleted.
How long does a Wikipedia page take?
Review typically runs four to ten weeks after submission, sometimes faster and sometimes considerably longer depending on the reviewer queue. That window is outside anyone's control, which is why the rest of your visibility work runs in parallel from the first week.
What if I am not notable enough yet?
We tell you at the assessment, before you pay for article work. In that case the honest path is to build the independent coverage first, which is work we can do, and revisit the article when the record supports it. Submitting a draft that does not meet the bar wastes your money and leaves a declined submission on the record.
Can I control what my Wikipedia article says?
No, and neither can we. Once an article exists, anyone can edit it and its content is governed by Wikipedia's community rather than by the subject. That includes properly sourced material you might prefer was not there. Any provider promising editorial control is describing something that does not exist.
Read the method before you buy it
We publish how this works in full, including the parts that make a sale harder.
Sources
- Wikipedia. General notability guideline (WP:GNG).
- Wikipedia. Notability guideline for people (WP:BIO), including the academic and creative criteria.
- Wikipedia. Articles for creation, the review route for drafts.
- Wikimedia Foundation. Terms of Use, section 4, paid contributions disclosure.
- Wikipedia. Paid-contribution disclosure policy (WP:PAID).
Where a claim rests on documentation, the documentation is linked above rather than summarized. Corrections go on our corrections page.
How this was made: written from the work we do for clients and from the research cited on this page, drafted with AI assistance, then reviewed and approved by the named author before publication. Our editorial standards.
Start with the assessment
Bring the strongest independent coverage you have. We will tell you what a reviewer would accept, and whether an article is realistic for you today.
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