Whatever the value of DW's suggestion for tabular formats for
biographical entries, DW (Arthur's little sister?) did not respond to
my invitation to discuss it on [[Wikipedia_talk:Manual of Style]]. He
had suggested it on some random biographical talk page. With all due
respect for Zoe, her talk page is not the place to rewrite the Manual
of Style either.
I think, by the way, that the idea is a poor one, and spending a lot
of time altering biographical entries to remove significant
biographical information from the first paragraph is a poor use of
time and energy. But I am willing to discuss it, and I imagine others
would be to, in the right place.
Tom Parmenter