Biography
The biography feature is used as a tool to summarise a person's life story. A good biography will focus on a person's military history while also including details of their early life, and if they returned home, highlights of their life after service. Again, a biography should be a summary, so if there is extensive research on a person to be uploaded, it may be more practical to present it in a different format (collating the research on a PDF document and uploading it as a 'Document' for example).
Also please write in 'Sentence Case'. This is a capitalisation style in which only the first word of a sentence and proper nouns are capitalised, with the rest of the words in lowercase.
Note: For "Personal Stories", that recount your personal experience with a serviceperson, please submit these under a different section, detailed below.
1. When editing the ‘Biography’ page, click the red button labelled ‘Add a Biography’.
2. You will then be presented with a text box where you can enter a biography. Please note, if you copy and paste text from a Word document, the formatting may not carry across into the text box. Text may need to be re-formatted by using the tools above the text box. Where possible, avoid dot-points and the retelling of information already displayed in an individual’s profile. Aim to tell a story by including information besides basic details.
3. When you have finished working, click the red button labelled ‘Save’ to complete your work.
Personal Stories
1. Navigate to the Personal Stories tab on a profile page and click "Add My Story".
2. You will then be presented with a box to fill out. Use this box to enter in a personal story and give it a title before pressing "Submit Story".
Note: This is only for "Personal Stories" of your experiences with a serviceperson, biographies do not belong under personal stories.