Template:Essay - Misplaced Pages

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This page is an essay.
It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Misplaced Pages contributors. This page is not one of Misplaced Pages's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints.

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Template documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge] This template is about the tag for unapproved Misplaced Pages guidance. For the article maintenance tag, see Template:Essay-like.

This template is used on approximately 5,400 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This template should not be substituted.

Usage

Further information: WP:Essays

This template adds the page to Category:Misplaced Pages essays or to Category:User essays, depending on namespace.

Please do not subst this template.

If you place this template on a mainspace article, it will redirect to Template:Essay-like anyway.

{{essay|WP:SHORTCUT1}} becomes:

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Parameters

This template has an |interprets= parameter. Replaces "This page is an essay" with "This page is an essay on ":

|interprets=the ] policy
|interprets=the ] guideline
|interprets=the ] and ] policies
|interprets=the ] policy and ] guideline
|interprets=Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources – this simpler syntax will automatically link to the page if it exists.

You can also use {{section link}} to produce better-looking links to page sections, e.g.: |interprets=the {{section link|Misplaced Pages:Article titles#Deciding on an article title}} policy, which renders as "the Misplaced Pages:Article titles § Deciding on an article title policy".

You can have up to 5 shortcuts displayed. The shortcut parameters can also be named as |shortcut= or |shortcut1=, |shortcut2= ... |shortcut5=.

You can also use |cat= or |category= to specify a more specific category than the default Category:Misplaced Pages essays or (in userspace) Category:User essays. It can be done with or without "Category:"

|cat=Misplaced Pages essays on consensus
|category=Category:Misplaced Pages essays on consensus
|category=User essays on style‎
|cat=Category:User essays on style‎

Userspace essays should remain categorized in Category:User essays or one of its subcategories with this template.

Essays are sorted by their page name, or in userspace by subpage name.

If you want to use a different category sort, you can specify an entire category link with a sort key:

|cat=]‎

Additional categories (and sort keys) are added at the bottom of the essay page, as at any other page. User essays can be additionally categorized in topical subcategories of Category:Misplaced Pages essays in this way.

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{{essay|WP:SHORTCUT1|WP:SHORTCUT2|interprets=the ] and ] policies}} becomes:

This page is an essay on the Consensus and Ignore all rules policies.
It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Misplaced Pages contributors. This page is not one of Misplaced Pages's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints.

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Variant templates

To place essays in appropriate sub-categories by subject, you can use:

{{Behavioral essay}}

This page is an essay on the conduct policy.
It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Misplaced Pages contributors. This page is not one of Misplaced Pages's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints.

{{Civility essay}}

This page is an essay on civility.
It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Misplaced Pages contributors. This page is not one of Misplaced Pages's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints.

{{Deletion essay}}

This page is an essay on the deletion policy.
It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Misplaced Pages contributors. This page is not one of Misplaced Pages's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints.

{{Notability essay}}

This page is an essay on notability.
It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Misplaced Pages contributors. This page is not one of Misplaced Pages's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints.

{{Template essay}}

This page is an essay on the template namespace.
It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Misplaced Pages contributors. This page is not one of Misplaced Pages's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints.

{{Orphaned essay}}

This essay is currently orphaned.
Few or no project pages link to this page. This may result in the page having low readership and little or no improvement. Please help by introducing links to this page from other related project pages.

{{Essay in development}}

This essay is in development.
It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Misplaced Pages contributors.
Essays may represent widespread norms or minority viewpoints. Consider these views with discretion, especially since this page is still under construction.

The following templates are available to WikiProjects for clarifying the distinction between WikiProject guidance and other essays and information pages:

{{WikiProject content advice}}

This is an essay on article content. It contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more WikiProjects on how the content policies may be interpreted within their area of interest.
This information is not a formal Misplaced Pages policy or guideline, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.

{{WikiProject notability advice}}

This is an essay on notability. It contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more WikiProjects on how notability may be interpreted within their area of interest.This information is not a formal Misplaced Pages policy or guideline, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.

{{WikiProject style advice}}

This is an essay on style. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more WikiProjects on how to format and present article content within their area of interest.This information is not a formal Misplaced Pages policy or guideline, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.

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