How to: Character History?

Quoted by Erethas:

Alright, I was just skimming through the character profiles in the wiki, and I want to comment on a few things.

'''I found out that the profiles have all the information that their creators want to show the world, but not really the information that *I* want to find by browsing a wiki. I think that a really important piece of information that most people omit, is what is known about their character by the general public. This isn't his background nor personality, though it can incorporate elements of both. For example, for Erethas I would (will) write the following:'''

''A stern man in his early thirties. He is a known Stormwind bureaucrat and diplomatic liaison. He is a passionate patriot, and extremely loyal to King Varian. The simple folk are wary to speak ill of the King or Stormwind in general while Erethas is near.'''

'''That's it. I know it's not pretty on the eyes, but it's purpose is to be as informative as possible with as few words as possible. If people keep it short enough, I guess it could also be part of the infobox template. Also I think that the categories should be less about game terms (classes, races) and more about lore concepts ("Scarlet Crusade", "Kingdom of Stormwind", "Darkspear Trolls", "Defias Brotherhood" etc). That will make it easier for people to find characters that RP a particular concept, rather than going to "human", for example, and hoping to find the Scarlet RPers there.'''

At the Forums, some people have reacted to how people show their Character's history.

I guessed we needed some kind of guide to how to make the history as best as possible for not only yourself, but also for others. I came up with these solutions:
 * 1) Write the long, detailed story, though most people like to get info through RP
 * 2) Write a short summary, so people only get the public info about the characters
 * 3) Write both the whole story and a short, public summary. If you do this, make a notice so others can choose to either read the whole, or the summary

Hope this might help people, as some may want to share their whole story, though others might only want to know the short version :) Have fun making up... stories :D