Your name and contact block: a form of address or pronouns before the first name, and a location that follows the primary address #309

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From the interface review of 2026-09-29:

Your name: before the first name, a choice made in Basecoat's select (#301), which the review calls a "pronoun selection".
Contact block: the location defaults to the primary postal address, as "City, Country", unless the location box says otherwise.

The first: what it means has to be decided

"Before the first name" suggests a form of address, which is written before a name: Mr, Ms, Mx, Dr; in Portuguese Sr., Sra., Dr., Eng.; in French M., Mme. Pronouns (she/her, they/them) are usually written after a name, or apart from it. The two are different fields:

A form of address is printed in a formal letter's greeting and, in some countries, on a CV. Its list is per language (Eng. is Portuguese usage, Mx is English), and some languages have none in use.
Pronouns say how to refer to the person. Their list is per language too (French iel is not a translation of they), and a CV prints them only where the person asks.

Whichever it is, it is optional; nothing is assumed when it is blank; there is a free Other beside the list; it is never inferred from the name; and a CV prints it only if the CV says so (#308). Nothing in the model holds either today.

The second: most of it is already written

core/postal.py::location_line builds "town, country" from the primary address (never the street, for the reason its docstring gives), and it is tested (tests/test_postal_addresses.py). Nothing calls it. Profile.location is a box of its own ("City and country, as it should appear on a CV"), and when it is blank nothing is printed.

What to do: a blank location means the primary address's town and country, both on the page (as the box's placeholder, saying where it came from) and wherever the location is printed. A typed location wins. The blank is what is stored, so a new primary address moves the location without the profile being saved again.

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The meaning of the first point is decided here, and the field is in the model, the form, the export and the API.
A blank location prints the primary address's town and country on a CV, a filled one prints itself, and a profile with no address prints nothing. Each of the three is a test.

From the interface review of 2026-09-29: - *Your name*: before the first name, a choice made in Basecoat's select (#301), which the review calls a "pronoun selection". - *Contact block*: the location defaults to the primary postal address, as "City, Country", unless the location box says otherwise. ## The first: what it means has to be decided "Before the first name" suggests a **form of address**, which is written before a name: Mr, Ms, Mx, Dr; in Portuguese *Sr.*, *Sra.*, *Dr.*, *Eng.*; in French *M.*, *Mme*. **Pronouns** (she/her, they/them) are usually written after a name, or apart from it. The two are different fields: - A form of address is printed in a formal letter's greeting and, in some countries, on a CV. Its list is per language (*Eng.* is Portuguese usage, *Mx* is English), and some languages have none in use. - Pronouns say how to refer to the person. Their list is per language too (French *iel* is not a translation of *they*), and a CV prints them only where the person asks. Whichever it is, it is optional; nothing is assumed when it is blank; there is a free *Other* beside the list; it is never inferred from the name; and a CV prints it only if the CV says so (#308). Nothing in the model holds either today. ## The second: most of it is already written `core/postal.py::location_line` builds "town, country" from the primary address (never the street, for the reason its docstring gives), and it is tested (`tests/test_postal_addresses.py`). **Nothing calls it.** `Profile.location` is a box of its own ("City and country, as it should appear on a CV"), and when it is blank nothing is printed. What to do: a blank location means the primary address's town and country, both on the page (as the box's placeholder, saying where it came from) and wherever the location is printed. A typed location wins. The blank is what is stored, so a new primary address moves the location without the profile being saved again. ## Done when - The meaning of the first point is decided here, and the field is in the model, the form, the export and the API. - A blank location prints the primary address's town and country on a CV, a filled one prints itself, and a profile with no address prints nothing. Each of the three is a test.

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Decided (2026-09-29): both, as two fields.

A form of address, written before the name (Mr, Ms, Mx, Dr; Sr., Sra., Eng.; M., Mme).
Pronouns, written apart from the name (she/her, they/them, iel).

Each is optional, with a list per language and a free Other. Neither is inferred from anything, and nothing is assumed when it is blank. A CV prints either only if that CV says so (#308).

**Decided (2026-09-29): both, as two fields.** - A **form of address**, written before the name (Mr, Ms, Mx, Dr; *Sr.*, *Sra.*, *Eng.*; *M.*, *Mme*). - **Pronouns**, written apart from the name (she/her, they/them, *iel*). Each is optional, with a list per language and a free *Other*. Neither is inferred from anything, and nothing is assumed when it is blank. A CV prints either only if that CV says so (#308).

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Add CV templates: one an applicant-tracking system reads cleanly and a Europass-style one to start #2

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Offer a form of address and pronouns beside your name, and print a blank location from your primary address

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A CV chooses which of your details it prints

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