Editing Main Page (section)

=== Creating A Biography ===

# Go to [[Template:Biography]]
# Highlight the text in the blue/gray box and copy it
# In the search box type:
#:: If Living: the person's current full name.
#:: If Deceased: the person's full name at death.
# Click on: Create the page "Janet Doe Smith" on this wiki!
# Paste the Template:Biography code into the new text box
# Begin editing!

We suggest that, in regard to living people, you provide only basic information.

==== Duplicate Names ====

* This wiki already has seven different people named John Lowell. To allow each one to have his own page, we called them [[John Lowell 1]] through [[John Lowell 7]]. If you search for "[[John Lowell]]" with no number, you get a "disambiguation page" that describes each of them briefly and lets you pick the one you want.
* If you want to create a page for Mary Smith, but there's already a page for a totally different Mary Smith, make the title of your article "Mary Smith 2" instead. If that's used, too, make it "Mary Smith 3", and so on.
* You can also create your own disambiguation page, but if that's too much for you to cope with, the administrators will do it later.