Template:Essay
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This essay contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. Essays may represent widespread norms or minority viewpoints. Consider these views with discretion. Essays are not Wikipedia policies. |
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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|WP:SHORTCUT2}} becomes:
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This essay contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. Essays may represent widespread norms or minority viewpoints. Consider these views with discretion. Essays are not Wikipedia policies. |
- {{essay|WP:SHORTCUT1|WP:SHORTCUT2|interprets=the [[Wikipedia:Consensus|Consensus]] and [[Wikipedia:Ignore all rules|Ignore all rules]] policies}} becomes:
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This essay contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors on the Consensus and Ignore all rules policies. Essays may represent widespread norms or minority viewpoints. Consider these views with discretion. Essays are not Wikipedia policies. |
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
- {{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 (create) pages. Please add categories and interwikis to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template. |
