Working outcomeA profile plan centered on specific work and checkable evidence.
Begin with the work
Ask what the subject taught, organized, designed, published, preserved, funded, documented, or changed—and for whom.
Build context around agency
Gender, race, migration, class, family, commerce, and institutions shaped opportunity without reducing a life to a symbol.
- Use primary records where possible.
- Credit collaborators and communities.
- Mark gaps instead of smoothing them.
Avoid the lone-hero correction
Restoring one name should not erase the network that made the work possible. Biography adds accountability to history, not a new myth.
Keep the boundary visible
General history belongs to SagesMahjong; beginner instruction belongs to NewToMahjong; generic gifts do not belong here.