Wikipedia:About you

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Hello! You may have been directed to this page because Wikipedia has an article about you (or someone you represent).

Wikipedia wants any article about you to be as accurate and fair as possible. In cases of blatant falsehoods you are permitted to correct the article yourself. In other cases, you can suggest a correction or addition which will be reviewed by Wikipedia editors, who will be happy to help out.

Wikipedia also wants its biography articles to look good. If an article about you has no photo (or only an out-of-date or low-quality one), or if it would benefit from a recording of your spoken voice, there are ways you can submit those to us.

Editing the article about you

People with a conflict of interest regarding an article (such as their own biography) are strongly advised not to edit that article, or at least to proceed with extreme caution. Any such conflict should be declared. Of course, we'd welcome you to edit in other areas, including those on which you have subject expertise!

You may remove blatant vandalism (such as the addition of swear-words or gibberish) or blatant falsehoods (for example fake death dates, claims that you have been convicted of some crime when you have not) from the article about you, but we reserve the right to report any misdeeds or other negative incidents that have been reported in reliable sources. We aim to do so with balance, so if you feel that there has been an error, or that something negative is unduly prominent, you do have recourse. You should not remove content about you that you simply find objectionable.

If you think something should be added to, removed from, or changed in the article about you (or if the article is protected in a way that means new users can't edit it directly), there are a number of methods you may use:

Ask the person who told you about this page
Ask the Wikipedia community on the article's talk page (click the "Talk" link at the top, and then click "Add topic")
Use the Edit Request Wizard, which will guide you through the process and flag your request for attention by volunteer editors
Post a message to the "biographies of living persons" noticeboard

We only want to report what others have said about you, so please remember that any changes or additions must be verified using citations to reliable sources. If you need help finding these, you can visit the reference desk.

Pictures

If the article about you has no picture, you can provide one, or ask someone else to do so (perhaps a family member or colleague can take one; or your employer may have one on file). Likewise, if the picture we have is out-of-date, or doesn't show you at your best, a better one may be provided.

For biographies of living people (where fair use generally doesn't apply), we only accept images that have an open licence and are available for everyone to reuse, not just Wikipedia. So a statement saying "OK to use on Wikipedia" is not sufficient.

See Wikipedia:A picture of you for instructions on how to provide an image. You can submit a photo by email or upload one to Wikimedia Commons, or simply post a selfie to social media and let Wikipedia know that you've done this.

Images may only be uploaded by (or with the permission of) the copyright holder. If you upload a picture taken by someone else, you may be asked to provide evidence that the copyright holder has granted such a licence.

Voice recordings

This voice recording of composer Howard Goodall introducing himself is used on his Wikipedia article, with his permission

We invite you to make a recording of your spoken voice, so that people using Wikipedia may know what you sound like, and how you pronounce your name. For more details of how to make and upload a recording, examples, and a suggested script, please see Commons:Voice intro project.

Avoiding scammers

It is possible that someone may approach you offering to edit or create an article about you for money, sometimes posing as as public relations firm. This may be a scam. You should read our scam warning.

Identifiers

We use various identifiers on Wikipedia, to help distinguish between people with the same (or very similar) names. If you have published books, it's likely that you have a VIAF or ISNI identifier. You can tell us about these, and we will see that they are included. If you have published elsewhere (journals, newspapers, blogs, etc) you can register for an ORCID identifier, and we will include that.

Please also let us know if you have your own website, a profile page on your employer's website, or accounts on services like Facebook, GitHub, Google Scholar, ResearcherID, Scopus, Bluesky, etc. - we may or may not include these in the article about you, but we will add them to our sister database, Wikidata.

More about Wikipedia

If you are new to Wikipedia, and want to learn more, you can read our introduction or ask questions at The Teahouse. We hope you will stick around!

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This audio file was created from a revision of this page dated 3 February 2026, and does not reflect subsequent edits.