Whenever there is more than a paragraph of detail known about a couple's relationship (e.g. the full history of a marriage), you can save time by creating a separate article for their relationship and incorporate it as a template in each individual's article (and maybe in articles for their children).
The page/template name should have enough detail to make it probably unique, e.g. "Bill and Gretta Patterson's life together". You can start the page by copying the following - not the lines with four hyphens - from the edit box of this page:
- This page can be used as a template on at least two other pages. Please use at least three "equals" signs at each end of headings except the first. To use it as a template, link to its page name with a colon in front as for a file or category but with curly brackets. This introduction will not appear on those pages if its surrounding tags remain intact.
- See "What links here" for the pages that use this; use it in reverse on those pages to find your way back here.
Main heading
Examples: "Family history" or "Bill and Gretta's life together". That will be the heading shown in each article; no need to spell out names if only one partner each, but clarification may be needed when the page is used on a child's page.
- (to be continued!)
For examples, see Category:Couple histories.
You cannot include a table of children using {{Showfacts children}} (though we may be able to devise a similar template that produces such a table with the individual's names as parameters) but you can list children in the same way as you might include details in a children-..._notes field.