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If the article currently has no short description, you will see a message to that effect. Click on Add, type in a new short description (or drag and drop from the article text, editing as appropriate), then Save. If a short description already exists you can Edit it, or click on Export to push the text, as-is, to Wikidata.
Writing an autobiography on Wikipedia is an example of conflict-of-interest editing and is strongly discouraged. Editing a biography about yourself is acceptable only if you are removing unambiguous vandalism or clear-cut and serious violations of our biography of living persons policy.
An article about yourself is nothing to be proud of. The neutral point of view (NPOV) policy will ensure that both the good and the bad about you will be told, that whitewashing is not allowed, and that the conflict of interest (COI) guideline limits your ability to edit out any negative material from an article about yourself.
A short description is not a definition, and editors should not attempt to define the article's subject nor to summarise the lead. There is no objection to an otherwise-suitable short description that also happens to work as a definition. As far as possible, it should: focus on the purposes stated above
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events.
by directly using this template, in which case the short description will be unique to the article; transcluded in another template, such as a disambiguation template, where a generic short description is adequate for a large class of pages; where the short description is assembled from data in an infobox
Wikipedia (like its sister projects) uses images that document the things we write about, that includes people. Biography articles benefit from a photograph of the subject, and images can break up long sections of text in other articles, making them more attractive, and easier to understand for people whose English or reading skills are limited.
An elevator pitch quickly summarises an idea, product or service during a short journey in an elevator. An elevator pitch, elevator speech, lift speech, or elevator statement is a short description of an idea, product, or company that explains the concept in a way such that any listener can understand it in a short period of time.