Whatever the value of DW's suggestion for tabular formats for biographical entries, DW (Arthur's little sister?) did not respond to my invitation to discuss it on [[Wikipedia_talk:Manual of Style]]. He had suggested it on some random biographical talk page. With all due respect for Zoe, her talk page is not the place to rewrite the Manual of Style either.
I think, by the way, that the idea is a poor one, and spending a lot of time altering biographical entries to remove significant biographical information from the first paragraph is a poor use of time and energy. But I am willing to discuss it, and I imagine others would be to, in the right place.
Tom Parmenter