Template:Essay
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| This essay contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. Essays are not Wikipedia policies or guidelines. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints. |
This template adds the page to Category:Wikipedia essays or to Category:User essays, depending on namespace.
Please do not subst this template.
- {{essay|WP:SHORTCUT1}} becomes:
| This essay contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. Essays are not Wikipedia policies or guidelines. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints. |
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- {{essay|WP:SHORTCUT1|WP:SHORTCUT2|interprets=the [[Wikipedia:Consensus|Consensus]] and [[Wikipedia:Ignore all rules|Ignore all rules]] policies}} becomes:
| This essay contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors on the Consensus and Ignore all rules policies. Essays are not Wikipedia policies or guidelines. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints. |
See also
- Template messages/Wikipedia namespace, for examples of related header templates
- {{supplement}}, to tag a well-established essay that adds something to a policy or guideline, especially to make up for a deficiency
- {{essay-like}} designed for main namespace not Wikipedia: namespace; use if an article reads like an essay
- To place essays in appropriate sub-categories by subject, use
- {{Miscellanea essay}}
- {{Notability essay}}
- {{Wikiproject notability essay}}
- {{Deletion essay}}
- {{Guidance essay}}
- {{Civility essay}}
- {{Humorous essay}}
| The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Essay/doc. (edit | history) Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages. Please add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template. |