Pricing
Wikipedia Page Creation - $1500 Includes research, writing, client review, editing, and uploading to Wikipedia.
Wikipedia Page Management - $49/month (optional) Includes ongoing updates to your Wikipedia page, removal of any flags added to your page, and a money-back guarantee that your page will not be deleted by the Wikipedia community.
I ignored that email, but the sales consultant checked in with me later. This was my response:
"Thank you for checking in. I understand the value of your service.
However, if we were to go after a wikipedia page these days, we would probably make the attempt on our own.
I realize that your expertise could more efficiently get a page up and ensure it has the necessary elements to stay up. However, we aren't spending money on marketing right now. We're spending it on product development.
Our hope is that by continuing to prove the value of our service, and by surfacing greater publicity and user traction, creating a wikipedia page and having the necessary attention to have it be upheld will become less of a challenge for us.
Again, I appreciate the check in, I hope you understand our circumstances."
The sales consultant responded with an offer to discount page creation by $500 if we did it by the end of the month. I politely declined.
We still have not taken the step of building a wikipedia page for our startup, and instead have continued to focus on making it notable.
EDIT: I think it is worth mentioning that at the time I did think our company was notable enough to get a wikipedia page. I also thought that done ethically, it was potentially reasonable to pay for someone who is an expert at this to do so. But I did not realize doing so would be against TOS.
I myself created and edited pages on Wikipedia for fun (mostly new albums for bands and music labels) I know there is some art to making something that passes editor muster.