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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Biography. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. This template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{ subst:Biography }} ).
Wikipedia is not a soapbox for individuals to espouse their views. However, views held by politicians, writers, and others may be summarized in their biography only to the extent those views are covered by reliable sources that are independent of the control of the politician, writer, etc.
In book design, the author page is a section of a book or other literary work that consists of a short—usually a single page long—biography of the author, sometimes accompanied by a photograph of them. Written in the third-person narrative, this page is usually entitled "about the author", resulting in the synonymous name "about the author ...
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Read Wikipedia's article title conventions to decide what the page title should be. Also see m:Help:Starting a new page. The history of your proto-article up to this point is unlikely to be of interest to anybody other than yourself, and moving it would force you to re-create your user sub-page. Thus copy/pasting makes sense.
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The simplest example is someone who continued to reside in their country of origin: Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734 [O.S. October 22] – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman; The second example is someone who emigrated as a child and continued to identify as a citizen of their adopted country:
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