Infogalactic:Template-Person
Some Person is a person of note. See the Infogalactic:Notability guidelines.
This [head or introduction] section provides a summary of the person. There are many examples out there for you to get an idea of what should go here.
Use this as a template to create a new article about a person of note:
- Enter an appropriate search term into the search bar on the top right-hand side of any page/article as shown below. The search term should be the name of the person you wish to create an article for. Also, check to see if there is such an article elsewhere in the public domain that could save you some work.
- If no such article exists, then click on the red link as shown above to create the new article.
- Open a new tab or window in your browser and bring up this template (although you can skip this step if you already have this template in a window or tab).
- Click on edit at the top of this tab.
- Select all the text in the Template edit box (Ctrl-A might work).
- Copy it all (Ctrl-C might work for you, or use your mouse).
- Go to the tab or window for your new article.
- Paste the copied Template text into its blank edit window (Ctrl-V might work).
- Replace all the Template text with your real text. Add new sections or remove unnecessary ones as you see fit.
- If the page has an Infobox, replace the Template information with things that pertain to the new article. Leave any fields blank that you don't have information for.
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- There are many different kinds of Infoboxs. For example: the Vox Day page uses the Infobox Person style. Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon use a special infobox called Infobox president, which has extra entries for things relevant to US Presidents. If you are creating an article on an office holder then the Infobox to use is Infobox Officeholder. See the article on George W. Bush for how to fill one of those in.
- Fill in as many fields as you have information for in the Infobox. Leave the others blank. It will automatically create a sidebar on the upper right-hand side. You can see the specific Infobox formatting required for things like Birth Date by looking at, copying, and revising the Infobox text (in the Edit window) in an existing page. If the person you are writing about has some special quality, consider looking for a special Infobox on an existing page of a similar type of person, otherwise use the more generic one in this template.
See Help:Cheatsheet and Help:Wiki_markup for additional details about formatting.
Remember! Delete all this inapplicable template text and replace it with the text that your article should contain. Delete unneeded sections as well. You can always add more sections on a subsequent edit.
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| Some Person's Name | |
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The caption of this image. Fill in this field and the rest if needed
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| Born | Some Other Name January 1, 2000 Earth, Universe |
| Died | November 22, 2015 |
| Other names | John Doe |
| Education | Graduated from The University Of, Summa Cum Summa |
| Known for | Notable Achievement(s) |
| Parent(s) | Mr & Mrs. Doe |
| Website | some-url-if-known |
This is the beginning of the introduction section of the actual article: ...Some Person is...
Contents
Early Life
Person was born somewhere, went to school somewhere and had early life experiences.
Career
Person had a career in some industry followed by some other industry.
Notable because
Person is notable because they did this, or was this, etc. Change the title of this section as appropriate.
Personal life
Person has or had a personal life and this section contains some details.
Criticism
Extra section
Add more sections as you see fit. There are many other pages with extra sections such as Filmography, etc. Don't get too fancy for your first article. You can add more over time as needed. Others may come along to add to your new page as well, once they know it exists.
References
Either have references in the main text or put them here and name them so they can be referred to from the text.
The 2 above in {{reflist|2}} means use two columns. You can change it to 1 if you think you only need one column for references. You won't see that code just by looking at the page. It only appears when you edit it.
