Template:Essay

This essay contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia users. Essays may represent common ideas, or ideas that many users would not support. They are not rules. Think carefully about what they say before following them.

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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:

This essay contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia users. Essays may represent common ideas, or ideas that many users would not support. They are not rules. Think carefully about what they say before following them.

Shortcuts: WP:SHORTCUT1 WP:SHORTCUT2

{{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 users on the Consensus and Ignore all rules policies. Essays may represent common ideas, or ideas that many users would not support. They are not rules. Think carefully about what they say before following them.

Shortcuts: WP:SHORTCUT1 WP:SHORTCUT2

Related templates[change source]

{{supplement}}, to tag a well-established essay that adds something to a policy or guideline, especially to make up for a deficiency
{{tone}} designed for main namespace not Wikipedia: namespace; use if an article reads like an essay

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