Forum:Improving the "people-page start page"

Most of us active talkers here agree that the "people-page start page" needs improving. At least three of us have said so, this month, on Help talk:Starting pages for people, places, or surnames. As it has several sub-subjects, a series of headings here may be useful.

Overall matters
We should be talking about Help:Model page for person rather than the page that was renamed more broadly to cover surnames and places and still has value for directing readers to whichever of those they really want. I still notice newbies using quite the wrong model for a surname page, for example. Robin Patterson 23:25, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree on having fewer options; and I approve of the idea of having one or more contain infoboxes now that the infobox system is working well. Robin Patterson 23:25, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

The "blank sheet of paper" option
I agree that we don't need this. Robin Patterson 23:25, 20 October 2007 (UTC)