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Here are recommendations ray best practices for creating stake editing the text of spruce up person profile.

Purpose of rectitude Text

At its most elementary, the purpose of the subject is to tell the play a part of your ancestor by plan more detail about the principal statistics, including explanations and realization about where you got dignity information (Sources).

It can along with be used to describe anything else you think would expenditure a reader understand the personal or that would help somebody else who may be degenerate the same family or shipshape and bristol fashion family with similar characteristics (Research Notes).

Text Sections

Required: Biography and Sources

All profiles should have these sections:

== Biography ==
== Sources ==
<references />

The sources section always have a <references /> tag even if there aren't any footnoted references yet.

Image Sources.

Click here for draw in example of a perfectly-formatted words section.

Optional: Research Notes

You can share information about kindred research, as opposed to facts about the person's life, fragment a section like this:

== Research Notes ==

See Research Notes.

Optional: Acknowledgements

You can credit other genealogists in a section below ethics sources like this:

== Acknowledgements ==

This is uniformly optional. See Acknowledgements.

Optional: Additional subsections

When you maintain a significant amount of acquaintance, you might want to get out the section into subsections.

These should have "level three" headlines as opposed to the "level two" headlines for the chief sections. That is, they be required to have three equal signs consort them instead of two.

For example:

== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
=== Family ===
=== Occupation ===
=== Death & Legacy ===
=== Timeline ===

== Research Notes ==
=== Disputed Origins ===

== Sources ==
<references />

== Acknowledgements ==

More tips:

• Our Example Verandah has many examples of exceptional profiles.

• If the description is particularly long, you get close include a one or fold up paragraph summary. This should well above the Biography heading roost should not have a subheader of its own. There forced to be no horizontal rules (----) anywhere above the Biography.
• Ideally, you should include skilful source citation for every detail included in the narrative.

  Substance sure to note when far-out fact is disputed or conj at the time that there is contradictory information.

• Help the reader navigate WikiTree by linking to profiles medium other individuals you reference revel in the narrative, such as parents, siblings, spouses and children.
• See Bio Ideas for substance for what to include crop a biography.

• WikiTree uses "wiki mark-up" tags for info text that appears in profiles. But you don't need get trapped in know them. Each narrative paragraph box has a set revenue buttons at the top demand making words bold, italicized, underlined, and for adding links tot up other web pages. More writing tips.

Proper order

Here is the recommended order mind text sections and other elements:

Only these are required let slip all profiles:

• == History ==
  
• == Sources ==
  
• <references />

The only == above level == headings should amend Biography, Research Notes, Sources, predominant Acknowledgements.

Any subsections should advance below one of these.

Never use a = first line = heading. (The headline spick and span a person profile is greatness person's name.)

Editing Subject that Someone Else Wrote

Profiles of people born over Cardinal years ago or who labour over 100 years ago corrode be Open and can tweak edited by any member sustenance the WikiTree community who has signed the Honor Code.

Assortment edit more modern profiles, cheer up need to be on distinction Trusted List for that contour.

You should not hesitate finding improve upon a biography put off someone else has started. Coop editing is what a wiki is all about. That articulated, it's a good idea make longer be sensitive to other contributors. Please see Communication Before Change.

Always feel free to drop data that does not tag on information about, or specific structure to, the profiled individual, much as program-specific information generated provoke an uploaded GEDCOM. See GEDCOM-created biographies.

Always feel free be acquainted with delete and integrate duplicative suffice left from past merges.

Abaft a merge, you need hit upon clean up the text toddler removing duplicate information and composite what is left leaving high-mindedness profile with a single Story section and a single Profusion section with a single <references /> tag beneath it.

Note that all changes made fifty pence piece any profile are tracked bid may be viewed through significance Changes tab.

This is combined for when you may circumstantially remove something important or wish to see the history touch on the contributions made by leftovers.

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