Board Thread:Community Discusson/@comment-5175866-20160327030142/@comment-5175866-20160331224327

Wouldn't it be pointless to have an alternative name for the heading containg the life of the person if the entire article was a biography? I thought the point of this was determining top level headings for each portion of their life vs all under one heading. If we were to change the name from "Biography" i would honestly do "Accounts" or "Life Accounts", having one heading. Really there isn't much of a point in suggesting a subheading format (current way works now) unless we were making all those subheadings top level. For this issue it is difficult to look to wiki's documenting real life people as there are inconsistencies in the "Biography" then the life account under that or top headings making the life account.

As for "Legacy" I still personally think, that regardless whether or not "Biography" is broken into multiple headings should be its own independent one (not merged with Death if Biography is broken). I think "Legacy" would be seperate as Legacy would describe the impact their life made on the rest of the Bible. This would include an "post-life" events about the person, most commonly an Old Testament person being referenced in the New Testament or events like a prophecy they wrote being fulfilled, having a symbolic "reincarnation " of you, having a ghost of you etc. With this section in mind it would try to use solely biblically justifiable means of "their legacy".

With regards to the location of the "Etymology" section, I think it should at least be after the life account and legacy. This based on what readers would find the most important and higher priority, and I think people would think it is more important to know about the person's life story and what they are notable for, before the origin of their naming.

I also think an equivalent to a "Characteristics" heading should be existent, with a different name. Practically every wiki format article, about real people or not, includes at least one "Personality", "Character", "Personal Life" etc section. This would be useful in explaining the person's relationship with God in a more summarized and concise manner than in their life account. There are also many instances where there are certain traits about a person that are not mentioned within the context of a historical account. For example with Paul the fact that he was an eloquent writer, but not a speaker is not mentioned in the Book of Acts, but rather in his epistles. While this could be asserted within their life account, it could only be specified in the situation that is related. Often times there are people who are mentioned throughout many historical accounts, and might be mentioned once in an entire chapter. These sorts of facts about the person may be difficult to insert within the life account, if the fact is entirely isolated from there historical account.

Some of the roles of "Characteristics" are replaced by "Legacy", and I do agree "Characteristics" needs a name change. Nevertheless I think a section like that is necessary in order to summarize someone's traits, relationships and qualities. This would be solely biblically based, which would utilize either specific examples that prove that quality or a specific affirmation that they had that trait.

I do think this discussion will be long. It seems right now only some ideas have been thrown out and might take a while to ever reach a "full consensus". I will start telling some more people about this thread to see if we can get some more attention to the issues presented