User:IllQuill/What is a good mathematics biography?

I am using this page as a guide for myself to answer the question, "what is a good mathematics biography?"

General "Good Article" Guides
Consider submitting to Peer review

Review MoS:MATH

Biography Manual of Style

Writing better articles

Common factors shared by math biography "good articles"
What characteristics shared by the existing "good"+ articles on mathematicians?

Mathematician biographies with "good article" and up status
There are currently 14 biographies of mathematicians which have received the "good article" status, and 9 "featured article" status.

Good articles


 * 1) Wilhelm Cauer
 * 2) Andrew M. Gleason
 * 3) Bernt Michael Holmboe
 * 4) Hypatia
 * 5) Vojtěch Jarník
 * 6) Katherine Johnson
 * 7) Srinivasa Ramanujan
 * 8) Arnold Ross
 * 9) Klaus Roth
 * 10) Anania Shirakatsi
 * 11) Hugo Steinhaus
 * 12) Carl Størmer
 * 13) Alan Turing
 * 14) Stanislaw Ulam

Featured articles


 * 1) Archimedes
 * 2) Georg Cantor
 * 3) Leonhard Euler
 * 4) Robert Hues
 * 5) Émile Lemoine
 * 6) Emery Molyneux
 * 7) Emmy Noether
 * 8) Marian Rejewski
 * 9) Edward Wright

Template
For now I keep going back to the regular bio template to create the drafts/pages, then adding things. Maybe creating template along the lines of this: Template:Biography would be helpful.