Template:Essay/doc
 | This is a documentation subpage for Template:Essay. It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
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. |
- {{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. |
Related 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