Add a person

A biographical track — a sequence of locations across someone's life. Each step is either an existing event (event-ref) or a private moment (a location not in the events corpus).

Two kinds of step

Event-ref — the person was at an existing first-class event in the corpus. You give their role (their specific part in it). The pin uses the event's location automatically.
Moment — a private location not in the events corpus. The train at Pietermaritzburg, the lecture hall at Columbia, the cell at Yerwada. Has its own date, location, and summary, intentionally lighter than a full event.

If a moment outgrows that and accrues consequences, promote it to a full event in the event form and convert the track step to an event-ref.

1. Identity

Full name *

Their full historical name. e.g. "Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi"

ID * kebab-case, auto-suggested

A short slug. Globally unique. e.g. "gandhi", "bhagat-singh"

Tooltip * ≤ 80 chars

Shown on track-pin hover. e.g. "Mohandas Gandhi (1869–1948)"

Summary * ≤ 160 chars

One sentence about who they were and why they're here.

Era *

Coarse time bucket, used for filtering.

2. Lifespan

Birth and death dates and places. The renderer adds an implicit "born" and "died" pin to the track.

Born *

YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY.

Died leave empty if living

Birthplace *

Place name

Country

Pick the birthplace on the map

Latitude

Longitude

Deathplace required only if died is filled in

Place name

Country

Pick the deathplace on the map

Latitude

Longitude

3. Wikipedia link

A Wikipedia link is required. The asset uses it as the rabbit-hole link.

Wikipedia URL *

Label

4. Accent colour

Optional. Pick a colour that carries everywhere this person is referenced — pill swatch, track-pin fill, connecting line, popover accent. Pick something thematically resonant for the figure (e.g. Babur uses Persian turquoise from Samarkand mosque tiles; Gandhi uses khadi terracotta). If left blank, a default cycles through five fallback colours and will eventually collide with another person.

Browse rangrez.naklitechie.com for the full palette library — 240+ regional and thematic palettes — and paste the hex value here.

Hex colour e.g. #b03018

no colour set — fallback palette will be used

5. Track

Add steps in chronological order. Use event-ref for steps that match an existing event in the corpus, moment for private locations.

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6. Verification

Have you cross-checked dates and key facts against ≥2 sources? *

Validation

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Download saves the JSON to your computer. Pull request opens GitHub's web editor with the file pre-populated. Issue opens a GitHub issue with the JSON in the body.