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:
Up to 5 shortcuts will display:
- {{essay|WP:SHORTCUT1|WP:SHORTCUT2|interprets=the [[Wikipedia:Consensus|Consensus]] and [[Wikipedia:Ignore all rules|Ignore all rules]] policies}} becomes:
The shortcut parameters can also be named as |shortcut=
or |shortcut1=
, |shortcut2=
... |shortcut5=
.
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
- {{Behavioral essay}}
- {{Civility essay}}
- {{Deletion essay}}
- {{Guidance essay}}
- {{Humorous essay}}
- {{Notability essay}}
- The following templates are available to WikiProjects for clarifying the distinction between WikiProject guidance and Wikipedia-wide guidelines
- {{WikiProject content advice}}
- {{Wikiproject notability essay}}
- {{WikiProject style advice}}
- If it doesn't fit any of the three, use an essay tag.